Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Our ideal candidate is able to work with our product and platform engineering teams to create reliable, repeatable, and performant infrastructure, as well as facilitate product deployments into that infrastructure. Our primary focus is within public cloud, where we primarily utilize AWS, with a subset of existing resources run in Azure. Engineers must be familiar with cloud native approaches, including but not limited to infrastructure-as-code, continuous integration and continuous deployment. Security of our environment is paramount. Ability to work well with others across the organization is highly desired.

Preferred technologies:

• Grafana
  
• GitLab
  
• Artifactory
  
• AWS
  
• Terraform
  
• Linux and/or Windows scripting
  
• Containerization
  

Responsibilities:

• Designing, building, and deploying solutions that increase product reliability and organizational efficiency
  
• Motivating and guiding the creation of effective CI/CD pipelines
  
• Providing mentorship and insight into DevSecOps best-practices
  
• Working with product teams to expose their requirements and support the above
  
• Improving reliability via root cause analyses, post-mortems, and using code to prevent recurrence
  
• Implementing effective monitoring and security scanning
  
• Assisting support teams in resolving issues
  
• Demonstrating and evangelizing state of the art technologies and practices that can be used to build and improve better workflows
  
• Discovering and implementing automation to reduce manual support requirements
  
• Providing emergency after-hours support if needed
  

• Degree or diploma in Computer Sciences or related fields, or equivalent work experience
  
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer and writing Infrastructure-and Configuration-as-Code
  
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
  
• Highly proficient in AWS design and architecture
  
• Professional level AWS Certification a significant asset
  
• Highly experienced with Terraform and or AWS CloudFormation
  
• Experience with Infrastructure- and Configuration-as-Code
  
• Experience with Windows scripting
  
• Highly proficient with CI/CD pipeline systems, preferably GitLab
  
• Experience with Git in a multi-team environment
  
• Some experience with containers and containers-as-a-service systems, such as EKS and or ECS
  
• Experience with log aggregation systems
  
• Experience with APM solutions and infrastructure monitoring solutions such as Grafana is an asset
  
• Desire to push themselves and learn new things
  

About Innosphere:

Founded in 1997, Innosphere has been delivering technology staffing and software development solutions to clients across North America for more than 29 years. As an early leader in remote work, we specialize in building high-performing distributed teams that help organizations scale and innovate.

At Innosphere, we are passionate about creating opportunities for our employees to grow, learn, and work with the latest technologies in a collaborative and supportive environment.

When we hire, we look for people who align with our core values:

Remote First: Innosphere is proudly a fully remote company. We foster meaningful employee connections through virtual events, team collaboration, and annual in-person celebration.

Life as an Innospherian - Who we are and how we work:

• Work From Home
  
• Team Owned Deliverables
  
• Charity Initiatives
  
• Promote From Within
  

Innosphere welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Only applicants meeting the criteria outlined above will be contacted as part of the shortlisting process. All applicants are subject to a criminal, educational, and employment history background check. Must be currently residing in Canada and legally permitted to work in Canada. No phone calls please.