DevOps Specialist (12-month contract) - Jobs in Ottawa, ON

Job Description

Join the team that is building a trusted internet for Canadians! CIRA is best known for managing the system that keeps more than 3 million .CA domains running as smooth as maple syrup, but we do so much more to help Canadians thrive on the internet.Whether it’s our cybersecurity products that protect Canadians online, our advocacy work that fights for better internet access, or our Community Investment Program that supports dozens of community-based internet projects across Canada — we work every day to keep the internet strong and free! Join us!We run mission critical worldwide DNS infrastructure. As a DevOps Specialist you will deal with problems like packet capture data streaming, zone transfer latency, and finding ways to bring additional visibility to the performance and operation of these systems. DevSecOps is something that excites you. You will be dealing with hundreds of thousands of queries per second while deploying code via CI/CD pipeline to DNS infrastructure around the globe. You are passionate about innovative ways to market and harness the latest technology and trends and bring your learning to a highly engaged team.What you’ll do:

• Help build and maintain Canada’s vital internet infrastructure

• Leverage best of breed open-source technologies to help CIRA increase velocity, predictability, and efficiency in deploying systems to the cloud in addition to on-prem DNS locations around the world.
• Use CI/CD concepts to automate dynamic environment provisioning, monitoring and changes to infrastructure.
• Work with your team and product management teams to understand, monitor and report on SLA, SLO and key performance metrics for the CIRA suite of products, infrastructure, and services.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.

What you bring:

• 3+ years of DevOps experience.
• Intermediate experience with Ansible, Terraform, Python, shell scripting
• Advanced knowledge of Linux troubleshooting and Linux administration best practices.
• Experience creating and maintaining workflows with CI/CD Suites (TeamCity, Jenkins. etc.)

• Working knowledge of git, TLS/SSL, DNS, and log aggregation.
• An understanding of enterprise level Incident management and monitoring for critical internet
• Experience in interacting with internal teams to achieve shared goals and solve shared problems.
• A desire to understand unique and interesting technologies which underpin the core of the internet.
• An understanding of enterprise change management and working in an ISO 27001 environment.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with high availability DNS (BIND, KNOT, NSD) systems in a mission critical environment
• Experience with building, deploying, and troubleshooting docker or k8s workloads in a self-managed environment.
• Understanding of ITIL processes, and how they can interact with Agile development methodologies

• AWS, GCP or Azure experience.
• Broad knowledge of industry trends for infrastructure as code, GitOps and other emerging methodologies.

Who we are:We are a not-for-profit, purpose-driven organization with a dynamic team that helps shape the internet in Canada. Our team is full of high performers and creative thinkers who come to work every day and ask, “What more can we do” because they believe in the CIRA mission to build a trusted internet for Canadians. It is our team and our mission that has led CIRA to be named one of the National Capital Region’s Top Employer for seven years.At CIRA, we value the importance of connection and flexibility for our team. That’s why we have a hybrid model in place, with a mix of remote and IRL (in real life) days in our beautiful office at Lansdowne Park, in Ottawa. CIRA IRL days are any days that a CIRA teammate will be in person for a CIRA-related activity. In addition to having opportunities to connect, collaborate and work alongside your team and other business units, we frequently host team building, wellness and social events!If you require a reasonable accommodation during any part of the CIRA candidate experience process, please contact us at peopleandculture@cira.ca.COVID-19 Information:In accordance with our mandatory vaccination policy, we will only interview people who have been fully vaccinated, or who have a valid medical exemption.Quick Apply

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