Cloud Specialist
Across Canada /
CloudOps – Consulting & Professional Services /
Full-Time
About CloudOps
CloudOps is a cloud consulting, managed services, and software company focused on open source, cloud native platforms, networking, and DevOps. Our purpose is to ensure our customers own their destiny in the cloud™; meaning that we help our customers leverage the flexibility of the cloud while reserving the right to change technologies and components, enabling freedom of navigation for our customers on their journey in the “cloudverse” so they can both achieve current goals and adapt to new business requirements over time.
What you can expect
At CloudOps we solve leading-edge technology challenges. We navigate the cloud ecosystem together with our customers - where the landscape, tools, and clouds will have you continuously growing and evolving your career. You'll get hands-on with the tech, enjoy the freedom to learn, and seize the opportunity to do fulfilling work. You'll work alongside an encouraging and dynamic team to teams that take their mission seriously and have fun along the way.
Who we're looking for
Are you passionate about helping companies of various sizes adopt containers and DevOps practices? You'll fit right in. Keep Reading.
As a Cloud Specialist, you will be hands-on helping customers deploy cloud-native platforms and tools to support their DevOps practices. This role requires you to develop automation expertise with configuration management tools and Infrastructure-as-Code. A core requirement is to build and maintain relationships with these customers providing technical input to architects, developers, and operators. The position requires an interest in multiple disciplines and strong interpersonal skills.
This is a full-time position open to candidates in Eastern Canada. We are currently operating in a remote-first approach.
In this role you will:
- Contribute to the deployment and adoption of DevOps Platforms and DevOps practices at CloudOps and with CloudOps’ customers.
- Develop subject-matter expertise as it relates to the Azure, Google, and/or AWS cloud platform and DevOps marketplace.
- Implement and guide around Cloud services in our ecosystem.
- Contribute to best practices for alerting, monitoring and alarming of Cloud hosted services.
- Create automation using Terraform, Ansible and other tools while contributing to materials for all aspects of Cloud-Native, Kubernetes and container ecosystem projects.
- Help customers build out their CI/CD pipeline.
- Deliver workshops and labs about container orchestration, Cloud-Native technologies and DevOps practices encompassing container orchestration, monitoring, security and tracing.
- Create and curate workshop and lab material, keeping it relevant and up-to-date.
- Participate in community and market activities including participation in trade shows.
What we're looking for:
- Experience with Configuration Management tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet or SaltStack.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform, CloudFormations and ARM Templates.
- Software development and scripting experience using Python and/or Golang.
- Interest in containerization technologies such as Docker, Containerd, etc.
- Interest in Kubernetes and the surrounding CNCF landscape.
- Exposure to cloud deployment automation and configuration management for GCP, AWS, Azure or OpenStack.
- Knowledge with, and high interest in, continuous integration via tools like GitlabCI and Spinnaker.
- Networking experience is an asset.
- Ability to learn fast and be curious about new technologies emerging in the Cloud-Native space.
What we can offer you:
- The opportunity to contribute to a meaningful purpose: solve leading-edge & cloud native technology challenges; navigate the cloud ecosystem with our customers, and do fulfilling work
- A team of trusting, curious, and supportive individuals that will contribute to evolving your career in the clouds
- A competitive compensation package, including an employee stock option plan and a comprehensive benefits plan
- Ongoing learning and training, with certifications
- Participation in open source and partner communities
- Work-life balance and a flexible schedule
- A remote-first workplace with a collaborative and friendly culture (including a weekly happy hour)
- Over 15 years in business and internationally recognized leader in cloud computing
What to expect once you apply:
- You will be invited to join a 30-minute intro call with our recruitment team, and we will walk you through the team's mission, the role, the interview process and requirements.
- We'll ask you to demonstrate your technical capabilities and will invite you to complete a couple of technical quizzes.
- You will be invited to join a 30-minute call with the hiring manager to deep dive into the role, team and projects, and they will answer any of your questions.
- The final interview is a 1-hour technical discussion with members of your future team.
Candidates will be asked to undergo a security screening, which includes a criminal record investigation, the results of which must be acceptable to CloudOps.
We thank all applicants in advance; however, only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.
