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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