Senior SRE Engineer (AKS, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, and PowerShell.)

Full-time +2

Role: Senior SRE Engineer
Location: Mississauga, ON
Rate: up to $85-$90 per hour INC
Structure: 8 Month contract
*** 4 days on-site ***

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

6+ years of experience as an SRE supporting production infrastructure.

6+ years of overall software engineering experience in a development environment.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science and/or a wide range of relevant work experience.

Extensive experience with Azure.

Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.

Experience using IAC tools such as Terraform, Docker, Helm, Packer, Ansible, ARM.

Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, YAML and Terraform.

Experience with PowerShell and Shell scripting

Experience managing observability tools such as Grafana, Kibana and Prometheus.

Experience with enterprise-grade software.

Experience with software development.

Experience with microservices architecture.

At least two years of experience managing Kubernetes production systems.

Strong verbal and written communications skills Solid knowledge of web architecture and systems.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

What They Bring to the Role:

Design and implement Kubernetes clusters according to business requirements, including scalability and security.

Build and maintain Docker containers for use in the AKS environment.

Develop and maintain monitoring systems to ensure the health and availability of SQL DBs, AKS clusters, file shares, service bus, web apps, etc. for production/Dev/Staging environments.

Build and own infrastructure through code and work closely with development/systems/networking teams to automate CI/CD pipelines to remove repetitive manual process to simplify operational needs.

Manage and optimize existing CI/CD pipelines.

Design, architect and develop cloud-native solutions using services like AKS, Azure SQL, Azure functions, service bus, data factory on Azure cloud platform.

Streamline and maintain QA and DEV environments that allows our developers and quality assurance teams to work more effectively and efficiently.

Create and maintain technical documentation and build books.

Deploy application packages and new workloads to production environment.

Perform regular DR drills and maintain DRP by collaborating with systems and development teams.

Identify and diagnose deficiencies with existing systems, frameworks, tools, and processes, and recommend creative solutions based on best practices and industry standards.

Create dashboards that provide visibility into production metrics.

Good vs. Great Candidate:

• A candidate who can build and own infrastructure through code and has a development background
• An individual who can code and be hands-on (Core CI/CD pipelines, Code to automate, Terraform)
• Expert level experience in Terraform

CorGTA is an equal opportunity employer.