DevOps Engineer

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Our mission at Stormboard, is to remove all barriers for turning ideas into actions, leading to outcomes that will change your world! Our team is united by shared values of creativity, passion, and learning. As a team member, Stormboard will amplify your career by taking on new challenges to following the lead of incredible mentors. We promise you will grow, learn, and make a difference. We work with some of the world’s biggest brands and you will have opportunities to work with them while growing in a collaborative company culture. 

We are looking for a candidate for a DevOps Engineer. At Stormboard, you will have opportunities to contribute to the development of the software by collaborating with software developers, system operators and other IT staff members to manage code releases. You will cross and merge the barriers that exist between software development, testing, and operations teams and keep existing networks in mind as they design, plan, and test. A DevOps engineer at Stormboard must be extremely flexible as you will be responsible for multitasking multiple urgent situations.

Responsibilities:

• Automating and orchestrating workloads across multiple regions around the world in AWS
  
• Automation experience with Chef (directly or via AWS OpsWorks), or similar tool
  
• Ensure high availability of all tenants and micro-services, and respond to outages and service degradations in a timely manner
  
• Monitor systems for performance and security, and optimize to enhance the customer experience
  
• Develop and follow change management procedures to streamline development, testing, and production deployment
  
• Maintain all instances and run patch management processes to ensure SLA targets are met
  
• Finds ways to improve the existing service architecture, keeping in mind the various automation tools available
  
• Manage software releases
  
• Manage and optimize AWS spend
  

Qualifications:

• Extensive knowledge of the AWS ecosystem
  
• Experience developing CI/CD pipelines
  
• Experience working at least one of the following languages: PHP, Node.js, Ruby.
  
• Experience managing fleets of Linux servers
  
• Experience managing and optimizing MySQL (or RDS Aurora MySQL) clusters
  
• Proficient with git and the GitHub Flow
  
• Knowledge of GitHub Actions
  

Bonus:

• AWS certification
  
• AWS Cloudformation experience
  
• Docker experience
  

More Details: 

• Salary is dependent on experience, to be negotiated. 
  
• Competitive benefits. 
• Full-time status. 
• Reports to CTO.

Stormboard & Diversity  

Stormboard is all about innovation and we believe that diversity leads to innovation. Stormboard is committed to employment diversity and works affirmatively to recruit a diverse group of employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, ancestry, disability status or place of origin.