DevOps / SRE
PressReader, Canada
Job Description
EvidentPoint ( https://evidentpoint.com/ ), PressReader ( https://about.pressreader.com/ ) subsidiary, is a provider of educational solutions to schools, universities and libraries.
Our team is building SaaS services and installable applications on cloud providers (Azure, GCP, AWS) and on-premise servers.
We are looking for a mid-level Software Reliability Engineer / DevOps with Linux experience in the past, who will be able to help development teams setting up environment and infrastructure and deploying software in a highly reliable and automated manner.
Responsibilities
- setting up CI/CD pipelines for different environments; our production need to be stable and easily scalable;
- setting up monitoring on hardware or instance level, services level and user-level;
- configuring automatic alerting system if something breaks;
- fixing critical incidents on 24/7 basis
- managing our health check and load systems, like we have now in DataDog
- may be help developers to use additional APM to tune performance
- set up log storage and analysis available for all the developers (e.g. ELK)
- users/credentials management
- lite configuration and perf tuning skills for our MySQL (not on the DBA level, but something)
- backups and storage management
- domains and SSL certificates managements
- if scripting skills are enough - setting up perf tests in collaboration with dev teams.
Required skills
- BSc+ in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years of Linux systems administration
- Building Kubernetes-based CD pipelines;
- Docker, Configuration management systems;
- Experience in BOTH cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure
- Scripting language for automation (bash, python, name your favourite here)
- Familiarity with performance and scalability troubleshooting
Our benefits package is extensive and covers you and your family. It includes:
- Extended Health Care with Dental and Vision Insurance;
- installments to the BC Provincial Medical Services Plan;
- long-term disability and ADamp;D insurance for the employee;
- 3 weeks paid vacation per year for start, followed by 4 weeks vacation after completion of 3 years of service
- up to 6 paid sick days per year;
- up to 5 paid bereavement days per year;
- salary advances in exceptional circumstances;
- reimbursements for professional training and membership in professional associations;
- gym membership.
This is a full time permanent role working 40 hours per week from our corporate office in Richmond, BC, Canada, with a salary range commensurate with experience