Staff Systems Engineer
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Job Description
Please Note:
Due to Government of Canada regulatory requirements, this position requires the successful completion of a Government of Canada Reliability Status screening as a condition of employment. The screening process requires 5 years of verifiable background history. This includes identity verification, education verification, a criminal record check, and a credit check. Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain Reliability Status, which generally requires Canadian citizenship or Canadian permanent resident status. Employment is contingent upon successful completion and maintenance of the required screening.
About the Role:
The systems we build run on a variety of cloud providers, and we have a high focus on automated, code-defined solutions. You will get the opportunity to work in all the major public clouds, implementing solutions via code, while also gaining understanding of underlying infrastructure technologies such as DNS, LDAP, Linux, messaging systems among a few. You will be part of a newly formed team that forms part of a great wider organization that puts a high priority on personal growth and offers great perks. In the team, you will get the opportunity to:
What you get to do in this role:
• Be the primary team to build and manage our Canadian based sovereign cloud running on Google Cloud as well as contribute to our other globally distributed clouds.
• Manage enterprise infrastructure at scale with code utilising Terraform & Crossplane on public cloud (Azure, AWS & Google Cloud) as we rapidly expand our offerings around the globe
• Develop and onboard new services into our environment utilising languages such as Go and Python, and automation tools such as Puppet and Ansible
• Define unique solutions which have a real impact on our customers and meet their functional and security needs
• Work on our next generation of software offerings such as Kubernetes as we aim to have our entire environment be fully code defined
• Research and implement new open-source and commercial tools, technologies and methodologies
• Collaborate with our peer teams such as SRE, networking and System Administrators to ensure stability of our environment
Requirements
Department: Engineering, Infrastructure and Operations
Function: Engineering
Experience Level: Not Applicable