Senior DevOps Engineer

Introduction 

Kablamo is an impact-driven software engineering company. We bring engineering, data, and AI expertise to solve complex problems, with the intellectual horsepower to know what works and the care to make sure it actually does.

Founded in 2017 in Australia, the business has grown quickly over the last several years, including the expansion of the team to Canada in 2021. We are proud to have assembled an amazing list of customers, including some of the best known enterprise and government organizations, in Australia and Canada. We’re looking to further accelerate our growth in both markets, and we’re seeking a Senior Engineer to help our Canadian customers to successfully deliver their new digital products to market.

As an established Google Cloud (GCP) and Advanced AWS Consulting partner, we are at the forefront of AI centric software and product development. Kablamo is building our own AI-powered products and, where applicable, enhancing our software and product development processes with the latest AI tooling. We’ve built Kablamo on using data and technology to drive product innovation, and we’ve been recognised globally, including AWS Public Sector’s global award for “Most Innovative AI/ML Solution” for Kablamo’s work in building bushfire intelligence platforms.

The Role

Our DevOps Engineers play a critical role in Kablamo’s cross-functional Agile product development teams. They are responsible for designing and building best-practice, secure and automated cloud environments, which are capable of scaling to handle millions of users and almost limitless amounts of data. Kablamo is proud to be one of the leading partners for both AWS and Google, and our DevOps Engineers are all incredibly passionate about these cloud and their ecosystems.

As part of our DevOps team, you will join a very strong technical community of engineers with deep experience working across different industries and use cases. You will have a chance to work on unique and exciting projects, such as, for example, the implementation of a world-leading wildfire mitigation (data/AI) platform for Canadian utilities or help develop new data/AI or software products for our clients. 

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of our AWS or GCP infrastructure
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes
• Be proactive in anticipating production issues. Assess risks and mitigate against these, planning for contingencies and counter-measures in advance
• Use automation tools to solve problems, writing and developing code to automate processes, such as analyzing logs and testing production environments
• Monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot data infrastructure and pipelines to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability
• Implement security best practices to protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with data governance and privacy regulations
• Develop and maintain documentation for infrastructure, processes, and procedures
• Identify tasks and processes that get stuck or move slowly and support the team in pushing them through
• Helping prepare activities for production release
• Participate in project stand-ups by effectively communicating status and impediments to progress
• Attend iteration planning sessions and participate in the sizing of the testing effort required to complete stories, ensuring external dependencies are considered
• Work closely and communicate effectively with the development team and product stakeholders to ensure project outcomes adhere to agreed quality standards

Required Skills and Experience

• Extensive cloud experience with AWS (VPC, EC2, Route53, IAM, STS, RDS, API GW) with a strong emphasis on security and well-architected solutions. GCP experience is also desirable.
• Sound grasp of security best practices in the cloud architectures
• Familiarity with configuration management (experience with Ansible, Puppet or Chef is a bonus)
• Being competent in configuring and administering a Linux system, including knowledge and experience with Bash
• Solid coding/scripting skills in at least 1 major language with a strong preference for one of the following: Python, Golang, Javascript
• Strong experience with infrastructure as code tools (AWS CloudFormation preferred)
• Solid experience in building and maintaining Docker images
• Understanding of and hands-on experience in using CI/CD tools such as AWS CodePipeline, TeamCity, Bamboo, GoCD, or Concourse CI
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP, networking and routing protocols
• Experience in implementing CDN/DDoS/WAF technologies
• Strong understanding and experience with Identity & Access Management solutions
• Experience in Web and API development and architectures (Event Driven, Microservices, SOA)

Desired Skills and Experience

• AWS Associate and/or Professional Level Certifications
• Experience working in Agile software and product development teams
• Experience with AWS CloudFront & WAF or Akamai / Cloudflare
• Experience with Docker clustering and management
• Experience with AWS’s Big Data & Analytics services, such as Glue, Redshift etc
• Cloud migration and delivery exposure

Career Progression:

• Lead DevOps Engineer

Why work at Kablamo?

Our Culture

At Kablamo, we strive to “Make with Heart and Mind”. We’re passionate and brave craftspeople, we love to redefine what’s possible, and we seek growth and discovery together. We acknowledge a workplace that is diverse and inclusive, enables for greater innovation and produces benefits including improved performance, improved employee happiness and wellbeing, and superior outcomes for our customers.

The PERKS!!! 

• Flexible work environment with an office located in Toronto
• Career growth (we really do promote from within!)
• Individual training budget
• Regular social events
• Blogging rewards
• Paid birthday leave
• Anniversary bonus
• Referral bonus
• Parental Leave top up
• Employee Assistance Program
• Work abroad for up to 3 weeks per year (some restrictions apply)