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About the role

  • Senior DevOps Specialist at CIRA focused on advancing Canada’s cybersecurity and DNS infrastructure. Contributing to projects that ensure safety and reliability of digital resources for Canadians.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the design, operation and reliability of critical DNS infrastructure, supporting services such as CIRA DNS Firewall, CIRA Canadian Shield and authoritative Anycast platforms
  • Manage large-scale fleets of physical and virtual servers around the world
  • Implement automation for provisioning, patching, scaling, and decommissioning
  • Ensure consistency and compliance of OS, software, security, and configurations
  • Write infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar)
  • Identify opportunities for automation
  • Build and operate monitoring, logging and alerting systems
  • Respond to incidents, troubleshoot across the stack and contribute to root cause analysis
  • Share knowledge with peers through code reviews, documentation and collaborative development practices
  • Implement CI/CD approaches to support reliable changes across environments and services
  • Design and operate systems that meet defined service levels
  • Support capacity planning, scaling strategies and disaster recovery testing
  • Work with security and development teams to meet compliance requirements
  • Create and maintain clear technical documentation
  • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience applying DevOps principles in production environments
  • Strong Linux administration skills, including system installation, operations and hardening
  • Deep understanding of TCP/IP networking, with working knowledge of BGP and anycast routing
  • Advanced experience with automation and CI/CD tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Git)
  • Experience working within structured change and incident management practices, ideally in an ISO 27001 environment
  • Familiarity with public key cryptography and protocols such as TLS, SSH and DNSSEC
  • Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and partners to achieve shared outcomes
  • AWS certifications ( Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer) are an asset.
  • Additional experience with routing protocols is an asset.

Benefits

  • CIRA Cybersecurity Awareness Training
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$120,000 - CA$135,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AnsibleAWSDNSLinuxTCP/IPTerraform

Location requirements

HybridOttawaCanada

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