Responsibilities

• Working closely with the development team to help build and deploy new services to our GCP cloud-hosted infrastructure, such as creating new instances, scaling the services, managing security groups, etc.
• Keeping our infrastructure as code deployment up to date and tested.
• Troubleshoot technical issues, communicating and documenting procedures, and recommending architectural changes where necessary
• Ensure there are adequate monitoring systems in place and respond to alerts in a timely fashion
• Setup tooling such as Kiali, Graphana, Jasper to monitor our environments
• Continue to build out our continuous delivery release process and automate our rollback procedures.
• Build and maintain our canary infrastructure
• Monitor and maintain our Istio setup for our production TICit Hub platformWork closely with Technical Operations to integrate our GCP hosted infrastructure with our on-premise infrastructure.
   

Qualifications

• 4+ years working with RESTful APIs with modern technologies such as NodeJS, React and Express
• Understanding of relational database administration ideally with Oracle, Postgres with PostGIS and with Event Buses like Kafka and/or Redis
• Experience managing cloud resources, GCP in particular; a  combination of on-premise and GCP. An understanding of VPN concepts, CloudFlare, Load Balancers etc.
• Understanding of the importance of tests and TDD
• Experience with source code version control with Git
• Linux system administration experience and the strong desire to learn
• Administration of Apache and Nginx; SSL certificate management
• Experience working with content delivery networks like Akamai or CloudFlare
• Excellent written and verbal communication (and documentation) skills
• Self-driven, highly analytical and detail-oriented
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

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​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, please visit www.affinity-group.ca