On behalf of our client, Affinity is currently seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their team on a permanent full time basis. This position is located in Victoria, BC so the interested individual must be able to work in Victoria on a full time basis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive technical and architectural excellence across IT infrastructure and operations
• Design, deploy and operate infrastructure and applications in test, development and production environments to support the business.
• Use orchestration and automation to provision, update and operate the environments
• Apply and support a broad set of technologies to solve business problems
• Ensure availability of business-critical applications and systems in a 24x7 e-commerce environment
• Participate in an on-call rotation
• Maintain and improve build, release, change, and deployment processes for development team
• Capacity planning, support performance and system testing
• Maintain and improve logging, monitoring and alerting services
• Take ownership to ensure the successful and timely resolution of issues
• Ensure security and compliance requirements of deployed environments are met
• Participate in requirements gathering, business analysis and sprint planning
• Actively work within the business's Agile development methodology
• Work closely with the Scrum Master to ensure the right work is completed on schedule
• Create and maintain system architecture, design, and procedure documentation
• Knowledge transfer to other team members

Qualifications:

• 5+ years operations support deploying Web applications at scale
• 3+ years orchestration and configuration management (Ansible, VMware, EC2)
• Live and breathe Linux & network administration including load balancing, routing, firewalls, VPN (NGINX, OpenVPN, AWS)
• In depth experience troubleshooting systems & networks
• Scripting languages (Bash, Python, Javascript)
• Git and managing source code repositories
• Docker containers
• Container orchestration (Rancher, Kubernetes, Docker Compose)
• Cloud deployment and operations (AWS)
• System logging, monitoring and alerting frameworks (Graylog, Elasticsearch, PRTG, Prometheus, AlertManager, Grafana)
• Build tools (SBT/Webpack/npm)
• CI/CD systems (Jenkins)
• Databases (Postgres, Mongo)
• Message queues and brokers (Redis, Seneca

Beneficial skills:

• Deeper experience with Kubernetes
• Deeper experience with AWS and EC2
• Experience with Centralized Identity and Access Control

About Affinity:
Affinity is a full service Information Technology agency that takes a unique approach to recruiting. We believe recruiting is about creating long-term relationships that foster a mutually beneficial partnership - an affinity. Bringing a new style of recruiting founded on four core principles – Transparency – Flexibility – Efficiency – Agility.
 
For more information on Affinity Staffing, please visit.
www.affinity-group.ca