DevOps Specialist - Site Reliability Engineering

TELUS Health is empowering every person to live their healthiest life. Guided by our vision, we are leveraging the power of our leading edge technology and focusing on the uniqueness of each individual to create the future of health. As a global-leading health and well-being provider – encompassing physical, mental and financial health – TELUS Health is improving health outcomes for consumers, patients, healthcare professionals, employers and employees.

Be a part of a transformational journey with innovative talent and leading edge technologies.

Our team and what we’ll accomplish together

At TELUS Health, we are on a mission to create innovative technologies and services that drive our vision which is to create a healthier world, one life at a time. As a global-leading health and well-being provider – encompassing physical, mental and financial health – TELUS Health is improving health outcomes for consumers, patients, healthcare professionals, employers and employees.

The TELUS Health Site Reliability Engineering team is passionate about delivering intelligent solutions to complex problems in order to make life simple for others.  We’re charting a new course in healthcare with end-to-end, secure, cloud-based digital platforms to ensure patient engagement and automation are at the core of our vision.
 

We’re a group of passionate individuals committed to building technology solutions that transform how healthcare professionals deliver patient care. We need passionate self-starters to bring our vision to life. You will work alongside a diverse group of architects, developers, engineers and product specialists with vast experience in the healthcare IT industry.

We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Specialist to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Linux, AWS, containerisation, networking, CI/CD, and scripting. Additionally, a background in development and architectural knowledge are highly desirable.

In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the containerised infrastructure that supports our software development and production environments using ECS and Serverless. The platform runs on AWS and utilizes technologies such as Lambda, ECS, Docker, Terraform, and heavy CI/CD pipelines. You will work closely with development teams to ensure that our applications are deployed and running smoothly in production. You will also be responsible for taking our ECS platform from the beginning, owning the development, automation, operation, and support of a complete self-service platform that enables our Agile Engineering teams to provision on-demand environments and implement continuous delivery pipelines for new services.

What you’ll do

• Design and implement containerised infrastructure solutions on AWS using ECS

• Automate the deployment and scaling of our applications using containerisation technologies

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines along with essential quality gates

• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in a timely manner

• Help engineering teams in designing state of the art cloud architecture and embrace the DevOps methodology

• Build and maintain tools for application development and deployment

• Contribute to Infrastructure and application architectural design patterns

• Implement and improve monitoring and operational tools and processes

What you bring

• 5+ years of strong experience with AWS and cloud platforms (IAAS, PAAS)

• 5+ years of strong experience with Linux administration

• Proficient in containerisation technologies such as Docker and ECS/Kubernetes

• Cloud architecture knowledge - Event Driven, Microservices, SaaS, Mobile

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions and Circle CI

• Experience in deploying & maintaining infrastructure using Terraform

• Development background, with knowledge of at least one programming language

• Monitoring, logging and tracing of large scale web services

• Knowledge of best practice in securing cloud workloads and preferably auto remediation of flagged items

• Bachelor and/or Masters of Computer Science, Engineering, IT or related

Advanced knowledge of English is required, because you will, most of the time, interact in English with external parties (clients, suppliers, candidates, external partners, etc.), interact in English with internal parties (colleagues, internal partners, stakeholders, etc.), as part of this position's main responsibilities, given its national scope.

Salary Range:  52,500 – 106,000 CAD Annual

Actual total compensation will be determined based on factors such as knowledge, skills, performance, experience and location. Additionally, TELUS offers rewarding benefits, which may vary per job function, such as:

• Comprehensive total rewards package highlighting competitive salary and bonus structures, minimum 3 weeks of vacation, and flexible benefits plan to meet the needs of you and your family

• Flexibility to work in-office, virtually or a combination of both

• Generous company matched pension and share purchase programs

• Opportunity to give back to communities in which we work, live and serve

• Career growth and learning & development opportunities to develop your skills

• And much more …

A bit about us

We’re a people-focused, customer-first, purpose-driven team who works together every day to innovate and do good. We improve lives through our technology solutions and foster a culture of innovation that empowers team members to solve complex problems and create remarkable human outcomes in a digital world. 

TELUS is proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to fair employment practices and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as required, during the recruitment process. 

Disclaimer:  In accordance with the TELUS Health Solutions Data Center Security Policy, as a condition of employment, all team members whose job functions require they work at a Data Center and/or have access to detailed knowledge of technology related to client service delivery, are subject to a Personnel Security Screening conducted through the Government of Canada.

The health and safety of our team, customers and communities is paramount to TELUS.  Accordingly, we require anyone joining our TELUS Health Care Centres to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.

Note for Quebec candidates: if knowledge of English is required for this position, it is because the team member will be asked, on a regular basis, to interact in English with external or internal parties or to use English applications or software as part of their tasks.

By applying to this role, you understand and agree that your information will be shared with the TELUS Group of Companies’ Talent Acquisition team(s) and/or any leader(s) who will be part of the selection process.