Senior SRE Engineer (AKS, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, and PowerShell.)

Role:  Senior SRE Engineer 
Location:   Mississauga, ON  
Rate: up to $85-$90 per hour INC
Structure: 8 Month contract
*** 4 days on-site ***

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We have a great new opportunity to support one of our Consulting Services clients in a contract capacity!

Please see below for more information on the position and if interested apply with an updated resume aligned to the needs of the role.

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Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• 6+ years of experience as an SRE supporting production infrastructure.

• 6+ years of overall software engineering experience in a development environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science and/or a wide range of relevant work experience.

• Extensive experience with Azure.

• Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.

• Experience using IAC tools such as Terraform, Docker, Helm, Packer, Ansible, ARM.

• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, YAML and Terraform.

• Experience with PowerShell and Shell scripting

• Experience managing observability tools such as Grafana, Kibana and Prometheus.

• Experience with enterprise-grade software.

• Experience with software development.

• Experience with microservices architecture.

• At least two years of experience managing Kubernetes production systems.

• Strong verbal and written communications skills Solid knowledge of web architecture and systems.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

 
What They Bring to the Role:

• Design and implement Kubernetes clusters according to business requirements, including scalability and security.

• Build and maintain Docker containers for use in the AKS environment.

• Develop and maintain monitoring systems to ensure the health and availability of SQL DBs, AKS clusters, file shares, service bus, web apps, etc. for production/Dev/Staging environments.

• Build and own infrastructure through code and work closely with development/systems/networking teams to automate CI/CD pipelines to remove repetitive manual process to simplify operational needs.

• Manage and optimize existing CI/CD pipelines.

• Design, architect and develop cloud-native solutions using services like AKS, Azure SQL, Azure functions, service bus, data factory on Azure cloud platform.

• Streamline and maintain QA and DEV environments that allows our developers and quality assurance teams to work more effectively and efficiently. 

• Create and maintain technical documentation and build books.

• Deploy application packages and new workloads to production environment.

• Perform regular DR drills and maintain DRP by collaborating with systems and development teams.

• Identify and diagnose deficiencies with existing systems, frameworks, tools, and processes, and recommend creative solutions based on best practices and industry standards. 

• Create dashboards that provide visibility into production metrics.

Good vs. Great Candidate:

• A candidate who can build and own infrastructure through code and has a development background
• An individual who can code and be hands-on (Core CI/CD pipelines, Code to automate, Terraform)
• Expert level experience in Terraform 

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CorGTA is an equal opportunity employer, please apply with an updated resume and ensure the required skills you are able to speak to for this position are included.

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