DevOps Engineer

Position: DevOps Engineer

Location: Toronto, ON

Job ID#: RQ11125 

Duration: 9 Months

Role Overview

The DevOps / Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, building, supporting, and optimizing cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments. This role focuses on enabling secure, scalable, and highly available digital platforms through automation, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and strong operational discipline.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess frameworks, platforms, and technology stacks to support cloud‑based solutions
  
• Design, build, and support cloud environments for digital product delivery
  
• Design, build, and administer CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous development and deployment
  
• Monitor and assess application and infrastructure performance to ensure availability and reliability
  
• Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and deployment issues
  
• Create, test, and implement safeguards to maintain data integrity and prevent unauthorized access
  
• Plan, coordinate, and support infrastructure and application releases across teams
  
• Manage system maintenance, upgrades, and performance optimization
  
• Maintain release calendars, deployment records, approvals, and change artifacts
  
• Support incident response, issue triage, and post‑release root cause analysis
  
• Create and maintain technical documentation, SOPs, and audit evidence
  
• Collaborate with DevOps, security, compliance, and application teams
  

Technical & General Skills

• Experience with leading cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, OCI, or Google Cloud
  
• Experience maintaining complex Linux environments (CentOS, Ubuntu, CoreOS)
  
• Experience with Windows and/or Linux servers, virtualization, storage, and networking
  
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell, Java, JavaScript, Node, PHP)
  
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Maven, JIRA, and Confluence
  
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and version‑controlled deployments
  
• Experience with build and configuration tools (Git, Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
  
• Containerization and orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS/EKS)
  
• API and integration experience
  
• Identity and access management using Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID
  
• Mobile device management experience across phones and tablets
  

Security, Logging & Compliance

• Apply industry security best practices across infrastructure and DevOps pipelines
  
• Design and maintain centralized audit logging across cloud, on‑prem, and CI/CD platforms
  
• Ensure logs are collected, retained, protected, and searchable
  
• Monitor infrastructure changes, access events, and deployment activities
  
• Integrate logging platforms such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, CloudWatch, SIEM, or ELK
  
• Support internal and external audits with evidence, reporting, and analysis
  
• Support vulnerability management, system hardening, and audit remediation
  

Evaluation Criteria

• Cloud & Infrastructure – 40%
  
• DevOps & Automation – 20%
  
• Security & Compliance – 20%
  
• Project Management – 15%
  
• General Skills – 5%
  

Must‑Have Qualifications

• Design, deploy, and maintain hybrid cloud and on‑prem infrastructure
  
• Strong CI/CD pipeline design and administration experience
  
• Identity and access management experience
  
• Automation and scripting expertise
  
• Experience supporting enterprise‑scale environments
  

About Symbiotic Digital

Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do for you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.)

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Serving IT and business leaders, Symbiotic Digital provides a proven business system that enables organizations to solve complex business and technology challenges. Our experts are evaluated through our QMS – Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100% Indigenous‑owned company.