Cloud Specialist

Cloud Specialist

Company Description

Our client is a Toronto-based fintech firm known for its innovative payment solutions that revolutionized the payment industry in North America. the services have successfully enabled North American merchants to accept digital payments from consumers and allow merchants to expand their customer base across various industries.

About the Role

We are looking for a Cloud Specialist to join the Tech team. As a Cloud Specialist, you will be responsible for service delivery, reliability, scalability, monitoring, and helping define all of this as immutable infrastructure-as-code in our AWS environment. Your contributions will help our team ensure we can provide our customers with incredible value and further our cause!

You Will:

• Provide guidance on the full life cycle of solutions including tools, technologies and best practices for development, deployment and maintenance of AWS hosted services
• Assuming responsibility for security, availability and other key attributes of cloud hosted environments
• Thoroughly understand the products that are deployed within AWS, including the overall architecture and components
• Manage application deployments using CI/CD for each cloud environment
• Collaborate with software engineers to continuously improve cloud hosted products

Expectations

• Relevant AWS certifications or progressing towards obtaining relevant AWS certifications
• Strong expertise in public cloud environments, particularly AWS
• Experience administering and managing on premise infrastructure will be considered advantageous
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong problem solving, time management and organizational skills

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 2 years of experience with DevOps practices in Cloud environment.
• Experience with medium or large-scale infrastructure.
• Strong experience with AWS (AWS Certification is preferred).
• Knowledge about Kubernetes, docker, and containerization.
• Experience with Hashicorp Terraform or similar technologies.
• Basic experience in coding languages, such as Java, Python, Groovy, NodeJS, Golang or similar.
• Hands-on experience in Jenkins, CircleCI, or other build pipeline tools.
• A keen interest in information security and associated tooling.
• A positive attitude, with the willingness to learn and collaborate.