Typical Day in Role:
• Designing, implementing, and refactoring code.
• Participating in design discussions focused on scalability, design, and implementation best practices.
• Ensuring software, programs, and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity, and reliability requirements.
• Working with other lead engineers and architects on designing solutions and breaking-down, scoping, and estimating tasks.
• Participate in planning and retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.
• Be able to build and operate scalable software and infrastructure.
Candidate Requirements/Must-Have skills:
• 5+ years’ relevant work experience, 3+ years’ experience in cloud platform/components/services development
• Strong development experience with Hashicorp Terraform Enterprise/Cloud, specifically with creating modules using HCL
• Experience with VCS tools such as Github
• Experience with Policy-as-Code development for Hashicorp Sentinel and OPA (Rego).
• Full understanding of software development life cycle as well as related technologies.
• Proven experience in cloud development (Google GCP, Microsoft Azure).
• Understanding of software release process (environments, binary repositories, CI/CD).
Nice-To-Have Skills:
• Experience with CI/CD tools such Jenkins and Azure DevOps
• Experience with Configuration Management tool such as Ansible and Salt
• Knowledge of software design patterns, infrastructure architecture, DevOps, and security considerations.
Soft Skills:
• Ability to solve ambiguous and typically novel problems that require team effort
• Strong communication skills, both written and spoken; of specific importance is strong communication to a technical audience.
• Attention to detail with high standards for quality.
Education:
• Post-secondary education in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related IT field is an asset.