Position: DevOPS/Cloud Engineer (RQ10250) Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement
NOTE
Extension/Amendment Attestation:
Extension(s) only allowed using unused days/funds left on contract. No additional funds will be added beyond the maximum contract value and any extension options included in the original SOW.
Assignment Type
This position is currently listed as “Hybrid” and consultants will be required to work onsite at the work location 3 days a week and 2 days from home, or as per schedule agreed to with the Hiring Manager.
Responsibilities
• Provide expertise in AWS cloud platform.
• Provide design, build and support for cloud environments to create solutions for Public Health domain.
• Provide expertise on Linux operating system like Red‑Hat including installation, troubleshooting, hardening and scripting to automate.
• The role will monitor and assess the performance of applications in a cloud environment to ensure solutions are available.
• Participate to create, test and implement safeguards to maintain data integrity and protect against unauthorized access.
• Regularly review production logs, providing analysis & suggestions to implement measures in a proactive manner.
• Hands‑on experience with microservices and distributed application architecture, such as containers, Kubernetes, and/or serverless technology.
• Provide detailed documentation for system design, integration, configuration, development and implementation of related activities.
• Develop and maintain system design models, technical documentation and specifications.
• Produce integration plans, inputs into configuration and development project.
Experience Requirements Public Sector Experience
• 5+ years of experience working with federal/provincial/broader public‑sector healthcare providers.
• Knowledge of Public Sector Enterprise Architecture artifacts (or similar), processes and practices, and ability to produce technical documentation that complies with industry standard practices.
• In‑depth knowledge of industry standard such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and Public Sector IT project management methodologies.
• Knowledge and experience with Public Sector Health related projects.
• Knowledge and understanding of Ministry policy and IT project approval processes and requirements.
• Experience adopting and adhering to Public Sector Unified IT Project Methodology, Public Sector Enterprise Architecture and Public Sector Gating process, and Public Sector Standard Systems Development Methodologies.
• Experience with large complex IT Health‑related projects.
Technical Skills
• Creation, management, and maintenance of AWS & related cloud‑based production system.
• Deployment and automation of packages for cloud‑based system.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS & related production systems.
• Excellent knowledge in managing AWS resources and configuring Amazon VPC, AWS Firewall, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, auto‑scaling, AWS IAM, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon Aurora DB, Amazon Redshift, Active MQ, AWS Cloud Trail, AWS Cloud Watch, and other services in the AWS family.
• Knowledge of the following Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies – Amazon Connect, Amazon Pinpoint, Amazon Dynamo
DB, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon Polly.
• 5+ years working experience of Unix/Linux operating systems like Solaris and Red‑Hat including installation, troubleshooting, hardening and scripting to automate.
• 3+ years with administration of Kubernetes and Docker container solutions.
• Proven implementation of cloud security models, particularly identity, network, and encryption.
• Knowledge of Gitlab or other Dev Ops tools and CI/CD integration.
• Knowledge of Salesforce solution and Mule Soft API integration.
• Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions.
Core Skills and Experience
• Production environment troubleshooting and tuning to improve application performance.
• Developing and maintaining system design models, technical documentation and specifications.
• Experience setting up development environments and mechanism using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Maven, and Jenkins or similar tools.
• Experience in scripting languages like Python, Bash, PHP, Java, JavaScript, Node,…
