Senior DevOps / SysAdmin Specialist

Description

STRATACACHE provides scalable customer experiences, empowering retailers to learn deeply about their customers shopping preferences and behaviors, allowing for personalized shopper interaction. Our solutions deliver consumer activation at the point-of-decision, generating new sales opportunities and enhanced retail profitability. With 3 million+ software activations globally, we power the biggest digital networks for the world's largest brands. Across the STRATACACHE family of complementary digital media/ad tech solution companies, we have the technology, expertise and track record to bring retail innovation that delivers results.

Our employees enjoy the following benefits:

• Competitive base salary with annual bonus, RRSP matching,
• Generous vacation days + 5 days sick leave
• Bi-weekly off policy (restrictions applies)
• Flexible and reasonable hours, hybrid 
• Group Insurance 100% funded by the company
• Employee Assistance Program
• Free coffee and snacks
• Learning and Development Opportunities

We are looking for a Senior DevOps / SysAdmin Specialist to join our ActiVia Networks Canada, Inc. a STRATACACHE company business located in Montreal; in this role, you will be a major contributor to the overall success of the group by managing and monitoring internal systems and infrastructure in a private cloud environment. You will be part of various engineering efforts related to automation, scalability, and security.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and implement container-based delivery of software components
• Automate deployment tasks of components to production, QA, and development environments
• Interaction with production teams to define DevOps best practices
• Implement Dev & QA needs and requirements into a CI/CD pipeline.
• Conduct systems tests for security, performance, and availability
• Develop data, process, and network models to optimize architecture and to evaluate the performance and reliability of designs
• Assess, test, troubleshoot, document, upgrade and develop maintenance procedures for operating systems, communications environments, and applications software
• Collaborate with team members to improve the company's engineering tools, systems / procedures, and data security
• Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation
• Troubleshoot production issues and coordinate with the development team to streamline code deployment.

Qualifications

Basic & Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or computer science (or equivalent).
• 10 years of experience as a DevOps Specialist or System Administrator or in a similar role(s).
• Experience with Linux server environments (RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, SuSE).
• Strong working knowledge of containers and orchestration (Docker).
• Experience with Hypervisors (VMWare, KVM, Proxmox).
• Proficiency working with configuration management tools (Ansible).
• Working knowledge with CI/CD tools (Jenkins).
• Knowledge of system/network security and data backup/recovery.
• Ability to create scripts using Bash, Perl or Python.
• Familiarity with code versioning systems such as Git.
• Practical knowledge of monitoring software (Zabbix, Prometheous, SigNoz)
• Experience with Single Sign-On software configuration is a plus (Keycloak, OpenLDAP)
• Knowledge of build automation tools is a plus (Maven, Gradle, NodeJS)
• Resourcefulness and problem-solving aptitude.
• Excellent communication skills in French and English.

STRATACACHE and its family of companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, veteran, marital, parental, citizenship, or domestic partner status, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law.

While we are excited and appreciate your interest in our opportunities, please keep in mind that we are not able to contact all applicants that have applied.

No vendor/agency solicitation please.