Monitoring and Automation Engineer

Job title:

Monitoring and Automation Engineer

Company

Vancity

Job description

Description :We are looking for a “Site Reliability Engineer” with extensive cloud knowledge and skills to work alongside other professionals in this area. You will be responsible for maintaining, enhancing, and securing a cloud platform. You are also expected to maintain the full complement of Observability, Infrastructure as Code tools used within the Vancity Cloud Engineering team.This is a full-time, 6-month contract role (with an anticipated end date of May 2025) that will enjoy hybrid working arrangements which can be fulfilled primarily from the Vancity head office location and your Lower Mainland based home office. Periodically, you’ll be required to attend in-person activities or events.The Site Reliability Engineer will be periodically on-call to address urgent network issues and ensure continuous system performance.A typical day would involve:

• Build new Infrastructure as Code solutions as required
• Actively seek to raise the knowledge bar amongst your Vancity colleagues through casual & ongoing guidance and assistance to your lesser knowledgeable colleagues.
• Make sense of data through query development, dashboard building & report generation.
• Monitor & implement IT work orders & incident tickets, action any items within a timely manner as to not breach defined SLA’s
• Effectively learn & use Vancity’s chosen project management tooling (Azure DevOps)
• At all times, work within the boundaries of existing Vancity processes (such as change management)
• In depth knowledge & understanding of the Well Architected Framework principles & methodologies
• High quality documentation of your work to contribute to the Vancity knowledgebase
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure Vancity retains support 24/7/365
• At all times work with a “security first” mindset

You have:

• 5+ years of software development and/or production operations experience
• Advanced systems level of understanding of Windows/Linux
• Fundamental network skills
• Web knowledge (HTTP)
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (Grafana/Splunk)
• Experience with 24×7 production support and troubleshooting
• Experience with automating builds and releases (CI,CD), configuration management and infrastructure as code
• Scripting with PowerShell, Terraform

Bonus points, if you have:

• Experience with VCS (GIT)
• Experience with VPC either in Azure (preferred), AWS, GCP
• Experience with databases (SQL/MySQL)
• Experience with build and release tools (Azure DevOps)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Experience with microservices and modern container orchestration

You Are:

• An Analytical Problem solver – Able to identify and separate out the key components of problems and situations. Able to manipulate and interpret information from a range of sources to spot patterns and trends in information and to deduce cause and effect from this. Can generate a range of creative solutions, evaluate them and choose the most appropriate option.
• Communication – Able to communicate information and ideas clearly and articulately both in oral and written form. Uses appropriate language, style and methods depending on audience and the purpose of communication. Able to convey complex information clearly. Anticipates the information that others will need.
• Team Player – Actively participates. Encourages co-operation. Aware of the needs of others and responds flexibly. Shares information and supports other team members.
• Full stack developer – who has worked in a Dev/Ops team and are looking for more experience with coding around monitoring, scalability and resiliency.

• A natural collaborator – you like working with others and consider it an important element of success.

• Diagnostic Information Gathering – you have the ability to identify the information needed to clarify a situation, seek that information from appropriate sources, and use skillful questioning to draw out the information.
• Multitasker – you are adaptable with constant changes and see yourself as a constant learner.

We value lived experience, so if you are interested in this role, we encourage you to apply even if you feel your skills don’t perfectly align with those listed.Salary: Band 8Posting Deadline: Posted until filledWe offer:

• We are the largest private-sector

in Canada and have been consistently recognized as one of the . * Our permanent employees qualify for attractive benefit packages that can be customized and changed each year to meet their evolving needs.

• New employees receive between three to four weeks of vacation allowance per calendar year, and the number of vacation days grows — to a maximum of six weeks per year — as their length of service increases. In addition, full-time, permanent staff may be able to purchase extra days of vacation through our flexible benefits package.
• In addition to the 10 statutory holidays in British Columbia, Vancity provides an additional three statutory holidays. We offer care days for periods of short-term personal illness or emergency family illness, plus opportunities to take unpaid leave for a variety of reasons.
• Our health care & dental benefits offer three levels of health care and dental coverage for you to select from. These benefits will also be effective immediately based on your hire date.
• We understand that retirement means different things to different people and at Vancity we will offer you a Defined pension plan that pays you a retirement income for life.

Please note that all shortlisted candidates for this role will be required to complete a background check which includes employment verification, credit check, and a criminal record check. Vancity is an inclusive and equitable employer and actively seeks to advance racial equity, inclusion and belonging across the organization. Vancity offers required accommodations in all stages of the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, please advise us, and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Expected salary

Location

Vancouver, BC

Job date

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 06:35:16 GMT

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