semaphoresolutions

semaphoresolutions

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
AWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringIncident ResponseBioinformaticsCollaboration

About the role

  • We're seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer for a 3-month contract engagement to join our Infrastructure team and take ownership of operational excellence and SRE toil work.
  • This is a remote, hands-on, high-velocity role where you'll keep the lights on and reduce operational burden from day one.
  • This contract position exists to free up our existing team to focus on roadmap initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Handle toil work: Manage routine operational tasks that currently consume team capacity (deployments, configuration changes, access management, maintenance windows)
  • Participate in on-call rotation: Share responsibility for after-hours production support
  • Respond to support escalations: Work with support and development teams to troubleshoot and resolve platform issues
  • Manage production changes: Execute and validate infrastructure changes in production environments
  • Maintain operational runbooks: Update and improve documentation for operational procedures
  • Perform system maintenance: Handle patches, upgrades, certificate renewals, and other recurring operational tasks
  • Identify automation opportunities: Spot repetitive manual work and build automation to eliminate it
  • Improve operational tooling: Create scripts, utilities, and self-service tools to reduce operational burden

Requirements

  • 5-8 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, SRE, or DevOps engineering
  • Strong operational background: Experience managing production systems and handling incidents
  • Proven toil reduction skills: Track record of identifying repetitive work and automating it away
  • Comfortable with on-call work: Experience with incident response and production support
  • Experience with incident response and production support

Skills

  • Track record of identifying repetitive work and automating it away
  • Strong expertise with cloud infrastructure (AWS strongly preferred)
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform required)
  • Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Nomad, or similar)
  • Experience with service mesh and service discovery (Consul, Istio, or similar)
  • Experience with secrets management (Vault, Secrets Manager, or similar)
  • Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting, and observability
  • Can diagnose complex system issues under pressure
  • Proven ability to onboard quickly and become productive in new environments
  • Strong troubleshooting
  • Self-directed work

Benefits

  • Monitor system health, respond to alerts, and maintain SLAs

Company info

  • Our platform powers genomics and laboratory workflows for customers in highly regulated environments.
  • You'll work with modern infrastructure tooling (HashiCorp stack, AWS, Kubernetes patterns) while ensuring we meet the reliability, security, and compliance requirements our customers depend on.

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