Senior DevOps Engineer

Bounteous is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer for a contract position based in Canada. The ideal candidate will have 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Take end-to-end ownership of DevOps and deployment processes across development, QA, staging, and production environments.
• Design, build, maintain, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable and automated application delivery.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and automation.
• Manage containerized workloads and Kubernetes environments.
• Automate repetitive infrastructure, deployment, configuration, and operational activities.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve build, release, and deployment processes.
• Establish and maintain effective monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across applications and infrastructure.
• Ensure infrastructure and deployment processes follow appropriate security, scalability, availability, and reliability practices.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, deployment, networking, and production issues and drive root-cause resolution.
• Implement appropriate backup, recovery, high-availability, and disaster-recovery practices.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, availability, capacity, and cloud resource utilization.
• Identify opportunities to improve cloud cost efficiency and resource optimization.
• Conduct technical reviews and guide development teams on DevOps and cloud best practices.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and deployment/runbook documentation.
• Continuously improve platform stability, deployment efficiency, security, automation, and developer experience.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for enterprise applications.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated infrastructure provisioning.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience managing production environments and troubleshooting complex deployment, infrastructure, and application issues.

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong expertise in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or equivalent.
• Strong cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Experience with scripting using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of Git and branching/release strategies.
• Experience with Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts including DNS, load balancers, firewalls, SSL/TLS, and connectivity.
• Experience with application and infrastructure monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability.
• Understanding of DevSecOps practices, secrets management, access controls, and vulnerability management.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and root-cause analysis skills.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with Helm and Kubernetes package/deployment management.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Knowledge of microservices and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with monitoring platforms such as Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, or ELK.
• Exposure to service mesh and API gateway technologies.
• Understanding of database deployment and migration processes.
• Experience implementing disaster recovery, backup, high availability, and business continuity solutions.
• Familiarity with SRE practices, SLIs/SLOs, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Relevant cloud, Kubernetes, or DevOps certifications are advantageous.