Site Reliability Engineer (Devops)

Looking for meaningful work where you can have an impact? Improving Ottawa Inc. is the place for you!

As a global market leader, Improving Ottawa Inc. exclusively offers consulting services to help guide your enterprise to success. Using open source technology, we provide mentorship to your technical teams, drive the implementation of product delivery, and offer staff augmentation engagements. Our focus is in helping organizations develop systems of innovation based on Reactive Principles.

This is a fully remote role where the candidate can be anywhere in Canada!

When you Work at Improving Ottawa Inc...

• You’ll join a high-performing, purpose-driven team that will help you advance your skills and adopt the growth mindset that’s essential to success at our company (and in everyday life). Our inclusive environment will allow you to come to work each day and be your best, most authentic self.
• You’ll have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be a part of a movement— Improving Ottawa Inc. is committed to the Open-Source Community and we strongly believe all good projects start with open-source technology. As a dedicated partner of Lightbend and Google, it is the Improving Ottawa Inc. mission to ensure every project engagement is a success. Our Partners have some great commercial products available to support each phase of the project lifecycle.
• You’ll make more than just a paycheque. You’ll have the opportunity to combine your passion with purpose every day while achieving tangible results.

About the Role:

As a member of a cross-functional development team, you are responsible for the deployment and successful operation of our scalable, reactive systems production and development environments. You are a skilled developer with exceptional expertise and skills in automation, configuration, continuous delivery and operations.

Key responsibilities

• Instrumenting monitoring and alerting solutions
• Automate the continuous delivery of development artifacts
• Agent of change who is constantly learning and seeking better outcomes
• Design, configure and maintain production and development environments for large reactive, cloud-based systems

The successful candidates will have:

• Programming experience (Scala, Java, Python, etc)
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience with Linux administration
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code
• Experience using and administering multiple cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Bash shell scripting
• Proven ability to support multiple operational environments (native, cloud, etc.)
• Experience with CI/CD Pipeline for deployment automation. In particular, Jenkins, Helios, Sonar Qube, and Aqua Scan.
• Experience with configuration management
• Experience using and administering Kafka, Cassandra, GitLab, Nexus
• BSc Degree in Computer Science, Software engineering or related discipline or comparable experience/education.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Open Shift, Dynatrace, Kibana, and Elastic Search.

Professional Skill Requirements

• Personable and enthusiastic working directly with clients
• Personable and enthusiastic
• Team player and comfortable working directly with clients

What you can expect

• Connect with a passionate group in an open, collaborative, and fun environment.
• Opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment for a dynamic company with a history of proven success.
• An environment where constant learning is the norm.
• Join a team of innovative thinkers as part of a rapidly growing company that is all about helping businesses create innovative corporate and workplace giving programs.

Our Commitment to a Diverse Culture

• Gender diversity and equality benefits everyone. We’re committed to supporting all gender identities and expressions in tech by sharing stories and advocating for equality.
• We believe in the power of diversity and we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment at Improving Ottawa Inc. We ensure equal opportunity for all applicants and encourage people of all visible minorities, including Indigenous applicants, and those of any religion, sex, age, ability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression to apply.