Senior Cloud Application Specialist / Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer

Location: Toronto, ON
Work Model: Onsite
Assignment Type: Contract
Hours: 7.25 hours per day, Monday to Friday, between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM
Role Level: Senior
Number of Positions: 1

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Application Specialist / Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer to support the delivery of a major public sector digital health initiative: the Primary Care Attachment Repository (PCAR).

PCAR is a centralized digital solution designed to capture and maintain the primary care attachment status of all OHIP-eligible Ontarians. The solution will support improved system-level planning and help enable better access to primary care services across Ontario.

The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, integrating, automating, and supporting scalable cloud-native enterprise solutions using Microsoft Azure, containerization, DevOps automation, CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support cloud-based applications and platforms.
• Build and integrate scalable, secure, cloud-native enterprise solutions.
• Develop and support web-based, n-tier, cloud-based, and legacy/mainframe-integrated applications.
• Create software platforms that run on virtualized and cloud-based systems.
• Develop solutions using Microsoft Azure services, containerization, automation tools, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Design, build, and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with integrated security controls.
• Support DevSecOps practices including security scanning, pipeline security gates, secrets management, and secure deployment processes.
• Develop automation scripts and code to interact with RESTful APIs.
• Automate manual infrastructure/network processes such as IP address assignment, DNS code assignment, and service provisioning.
• Implement infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Integrate open-source software products into new and existing systems.
• Support monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability for application and system performance.
• Troubleshoot production issues, resolve defects, and support system changes.
• Prepare and contribute to technical documentation, including system response documents, technical specifications, application inventory, implementation plans, test plans, and test data.
• Conduct and participate in design walkthroughs, test case walkthroughs, and test result walkthroughs.
• Support unit testing, system testing, implementation, promotion, and release activities.
• Provide weekly status updates on progress, risks, issues, and concerns.
• Transfer knowledge and technical skills to internal staff.

Mandatory Requirements

Candidates must have strong hands-on experience in the following areas:

• 8–10+ years of hands-on experience in cloud application development, cloud engineering, DevOps engineering, or platform engineering.
• Recent and demonstrated experience with Microsoft Azure, including services such as:
• Azure App Services
• Azure Functions
• AKS / Azure Kubernetes Service
• Azure DevOps
• Azure cloud services and integrations
• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including:
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• AKS
• OpenShift
• Demonstrated experience with DevOps and automation tools, including:
• Azure DevOps
• Jenkins
• Ansible
• CI/CD pipelines
• Experience designing, developing, and implementing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience integrating security into CI/CD pipelines using DevSecOps practices.
• Experience with cloud architecture and secure enterprise solution delivery, including:
• IAM / identity and access management
• Encryption
• Compliance
• Secure cloud design
• High availability
• Scalable enterprise architecture
• Experience with scripting languages such as:
• Python
• PowerShell
• Bash or Shell scripting
• Experience writing code to interact with RESTful APIs to automate manual processes.
• Experience with automation for infrastructure provisioning and repeatable deployment processes.
• Experience with network automation processes such as assigning IP addresses, DNS codes, or similar infrastructure/service provisioning tasks.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools to monitor system and application performance.
• Experience with Git-based source code management and version control tools such as:
• Git
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Azure Repos

Technical Skills

The ideal candidate will have experience with several of the following:

• Microsoft Azure
• Azure App Services
• Azure Functions
• AKS / Azure Kubernetes Service
• Azure DevOps
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• Jenkins
• Ansible
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
• DevSecOps
• RESTful API integration
• Python scripting
• PowerShell scripting
• Git / GitHub / GitLab / Azure Repos
• Azure Monitor
• Application Insights
• Log Analytics
• Prometheus / Grafana / Splunk or similar monitoring tools
• IAM, RBAC, encryption, secrets management, and compliance controls
• Azure data services such as Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake, or Databricks
• ETL / ELT and data pipeline integration
• VMware, Hyper-V, or other virtualization/hypervisor technologies
• Cloud services such as Microsoft Azure; AWS experience is considered an asset

General Skills

• Strong knowledge of the full software development lifecycle, from business systems analysis and requirements gathering through design, development, testing, implementation, and support.
• Ability to troubleshoot code and make system changes to resolve issues.
• Experience modifying existing software to correct errors, adapt to new hardware, upgrade interfaces, and improve performance.
• Ability to develop technical specifications and performance requirements.
• Strong understanding of software development concepts, databases, networking, virtualization, and cloud computing.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong communication, documentation, and knowledge transfer skills.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines in a complex delivery environment.

Nice to Have

• Public sector experience.
• Healthcare sector experience.
• Ontario Public Service or broader government experience.
• Experience working with mainframe or legacy system integrations.
• Experience with large-scale enterprise digital transformation initiatives.

Screening Focus

Only candidates with strong hands-on experience in Azure, AKS/Kubernetes, Docker, Azure DevOps/Jenkins, Ansible, CI/CD, DevSecOps, REST API automation, scripting, monitoring/logging, and enterprise cloud architecture should apply.

Experience with IP/DNS automation, infrastructure provisioning, security-integrated pipelines, and public sector or healthcare environments will be considered highly valuable.

Pay: $85,443.83-$167,471.03 per year

Work Location: In person