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About the role

  • Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer managing operational excellence as part of the Infrastructure team for a tech company specializing in genomics workflows. A hands-on role focused on operational tasks, SRE work, and automation.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor, respond to, and resolve production incidents and operational issues
  • Manage routine operational tasks that currently consume team capacity (deployments, configuration changes, access management, maintenance windows)
  • Participate in on-call rotation: Share responsibility for after-hours production support
  • Work with support and development teams to troubleshoot and resolve platform issues
  • Execute and validate infrastructure changes in production environments
  • Update and improve documentation for operational procedures
  • Handle patches, upgrades, certificate renewals, and other recurring operational tasks
  • Monitor system health, respond to alerts, and maintain SLAs
  • Spot repetitive manual work and build automation to eliminate it
  • Create scripts, utilities, and self-service tools to reduce operational burden
  • Improve observability to catch issues before they become incidents
  • Reduce friction and manual steps in release and deployment workflows
  • Enable developers to handle routine tasks without infrastructure team involvement
  • Convert manual procedures into automated, repeatable infrastructure code (Terraform)
  • Leave behind improved runbooks, automation, and processes
  • Help quantify operational burden and demonstrate reduction over time
  • Free up permanent team members for strategic initiatives
  • Support development teams' infrastructure needs and unblock their work
  • Capture operational knowledge and procedures that exist only in people's heads
  • Provide clear documentation and knowledge transfer for systems and automation you build
  • Participate in team rituals: Standups, retrospectives, and planning to stay aligned with team priorities

Requirements

  • 5-8 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, SRE, or DevOps engineering
  • Strong operational background: Experience managing production systems and handling incidents
  • Proven toil reduction skills: Track record of identifying repetitive work and automating it away
  • Strong expertise with cloud infrastructure (AWS strongly preferred)
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform required)
  • Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Nomad, or similar)
  • Experience with service mesh and service discovery (Consul, Istio, or similar)
  • Experience with secrets management (Vault, Secrets Manager, or similar)
  • Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting, and observability
  • Comfortable with on-call work: Experience with incident response and production support
  • Proven ability to onboard quickly and become productive in new environments
  • Strong troubleshooting skills: Can diagnose complex system issues under pressure
  • Self-directed work style: Minimal supervision required for operational work
  • Bias for automation: Natural instinct to eliminate manual work.

Job type

Contract

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$78 - CA$101 per hour

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSCloudConsulKubernetesTerraformVault

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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