Why you’ll love working here:
high-performance, people-focused culture
our commitment that equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental to our work environment and business success, which helps employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves
learning and development initiatives, including workshops, Speaker Series events and access to LinkedIn Learning, that support employees’ career growth
membership in HOOPP’s world class defined benefit pension plan, which can serve as an important part of your retirement security
competitive, 100% company-paid extended health and dental benefits for permanent employees, including coverage supporting our team's diversity and mental health (e.g., gender affirmation, fertility and drug treatment, psychological support benefits of $2,500 per year, and newly extended maternity/parental leave top of 26 weeks)
optional post-retirement health and dental benefits subsidized at 50%
yoga classes, meditation workshops, nutritional consultations, and wellness seminars
access to an annual wellness reimbursement program for health and wellness-related expenses for permanent and temporary employees
the opportunity to make a difference and help take care of those who care for us, by providing a financially secure retirement for Ontario healthcare workers
Job summary:
The IT Investment Solutions Group at HOOPP (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan) is looking for a highly skilled individual to fill a fulltime senior DevOps Engineer role for our IT for Investments Infrastructure team. This role focus on cloud system administration enabling solutions holistically supporting HOOPP Investment, Finance and Risk Management groups.
The IT Investment Solutions Group’s principles focus on delivering true customer value in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. We value challenging the status quo, innovative solutions, team collaboration and practicality. You will work closely with Enterprise Architects, Project Management Office and Governance, Information Security and partner Infrastructure team Product Owners and PMs to ensure the cloud system operations and projects meet all organizational objectives.
As a key member of our dynamic team, you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and managing our cloud infrastructure to support the organization's strategic objectives. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in cloud technologies, a strong background in DevOps practices, and a passion for automation and innovation.
What you will do:
Possess in-depth knowledge and expertise in designing, deploying, and managing scalable, reliable, and automated cloud infrastructure solutions on cloud platforms such as AWS and Snowflake.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize AWS cloud environments to ensure performance, security, and cost-efficiency.
Independently leads key initiatives that require interfacing with internal customers and stakeholders to gather requirements, design, plan and implement reliable and secure solutions that meet customer and stakeholder requirements.
Collaborate with development and cross IT functional teams to integrate and optimize cloud-based applications.
Develop and maintain automated processes for cloud provisioning configuration, and management.
Create and maintain documentation for cloud architectures, configurations, and processes.
Develop and maintain automated processes for cloud provisioning, configuration, and management, particularly within the AWS and Snowflake environment.
Support Product Owner and design systems to eliminate or reduce manual effort and complexity through automation and Infrastructure as Code practices.
Possesses expert cloud system administration, containerization knowledge with the ability to independently implement complex solutions from end-to-end, troubleshoot and resolve problems.
Combine conceptual and practical expertise in the areas of cloud infrastructure, IT architecture, scripting, continuous integration, and deployment (CI/CD), build automation, system monitoring, troubleshooting, and remediation following best practices and architecture framework.
Stay updated emerging technologies and industry trends to identify opportunities for improvement and innovation.
Provide technical support, triage, prioritize, track, and resolve production problems and operational issues; use analytical thinking, tools, and judgement to identify root causes and long-term solutions.
Participate in on-call rotation to provide support outside regular working hours.
Strengthen security posture by responding to security incidents and enforce information security best practices.
Mentor junior colleagues and invests time to grow individuals in a technical capacity; acts as a subject matter expert to guide and share knowledge across departmental teams.
Communicate complex concepts and makes sure that everyone understands the message; invites varying perspectives, anticipates challenge; supports the right decision for the team.
What you bring:
Highly motivated with growth mindset, passionate for learning new things.
Critical and first-principles thinking, a strong desire to understand any topic at a deeper level than most and are unsatisfied with decisions based on convention or unjustified assumptions.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field
8+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure Operations and/or Software Development with a focus on system administration and automation
Strong proficiency in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure Cloud Platform and Snowflake, with hands-on experience in Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
In-Depth knowledge and experience with CI/CD and IT automation tools and practices (e.g., Azure DevOps, AWS Code Pipeline/CodeCommit/CodeDeploy, Artifactory etc.)
In-depth conceptual knowledge and practical hands-on expertise in Cloud based, serverless and microservice based architecture, cloud infrastructure and technologies, scripting and IaC tools (JSON, YAML, Python, PowerShell, Node.js, Terraform, etc.).
Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
Solid understanding of networking concepts, security principles, Domain Controller/Active Directory, data protection strategies, with expertise in implementing best practices for securing cloud infrastructure.
Strong knowledge of Agile practices such as Scrum or Kanban, MVP, etc.
Expertise in Windows and Linux operating systems
Experience working with IT operational processes (e.g., incident management, identity and access management, logging and monitoring, security etc.) and deep knowledge of monitoring tools (such as CloudWatch, DataDog, Splunk, etc.)
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to troubleshoot complex issues and drive resolution.
Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
Relevant certifications such as:
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate,
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
or Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification.