Cloud Engineer, Automation

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Smile Digital HealthHealthcare data
Remote OntarioFull-TimeSenior
Salary120,000 - 140,000 CAD per year
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Job Details

Experience
6+ years of hands-on cloud engineering, DevOps and/or platform engineering experience, including at least 1-2+ years with infrastructure as code and CI/CD automation on Microsoft Azure in production.
Required Skills
PythonBashKafkaKubernetesMicrosoft AzureTerraformAzure DevOpsHelm

Requirements

  • Have 6+ years of hands-on cloud engineering, DevOps, and/or platform engineering experience.
  • Have at least 1-2+ years of production experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD automation on Microsoft Azure.
  • Have post-secondary education in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar field, or equivalent work experience.
  • Bring practical, in-depth knowledge of Terraform, Helm, Azure DevOps pipelines, and GitOps delivery using Argo CD or Flux.
  • Have Terraform experience with module design, provider version management, state management, and refactoring.
  • Have experience authoring and refactoring Helm charts, and recent experience with Kubernetes and AKS.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of Azure AKS, Key Vault, Storage, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, networking, identity, and observability tools.
  • Have hands-on experience automating backup, restore, and failover with measured RTO and RPO.
  • Have experience using agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or equivalent, protecting confidential data and reviewing generated output.
  • Have experience running, hardening, and right-sizing production workloads on Kubernetes.
  • Have hands-on Kafka operations experience, including topic and partition design, consumer group sizing, and throughput and latency trade-offs.
  • Have strong Python and Bash skills for building maintainable tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Review repositories and CI setup, then consolidate Azure DevOps pipeline YAML into reusable templates with change detection and automated quality gates.
  • Replace manual cross-functional work with scheduled, auditable automation, including patching, certificate and secret rotation, environment scaling, and recurring reports.
  • Implement GitOps-based continuous delivery with declarative deployments, automated reconciliation, drift detection, and rollback.
  • Automate end-to-end provisioning and teardown of line-of-business environments across Azure services and applications.
  • Automate backup validation, restore, failover, and recurring disaster recovery drills; measure RTO and RPO.
  • Maintain reusable Helm charts and versioned Terraform modules, and validate configuration and state boundaries.
  • Run and harden Helm-deployed platform services, including health probes, replica counts, resource requests and limits, and autoscaling.
  • Build and maintain Build Agent images and automate policy-as-code, security and IaC scanning, alerts, and dashboards.
  • Contribute to AI enablement by packaging knowledge into reusable skills and runbooks in the shared skill library.
  • Work with development and operations teams to prioritize automation gaps, troubleshoot production and staging issues, and document automated processes.
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