About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Sr. Cloud Administrator based in Canada.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, maintain, and optimize secure, scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure, primarily on AWS
- Monitor infrastructure performance, troubleshoot issues, and provide support for critical incidents, including off-hours
- Evaluate and prioritize infrastructure requests from business units
- Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Oversee application deployments and releases across staging and production
- Maintain technical documentation, reference architectures, and SOPs
- Implement cloud cost optimization strategies
- Ensure compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR
- Collaborate with external Managed Service Providers
- Assess and implement cloud-native AI services and AI-driven operational tools
- Support customer-facing services including APIs, SaaS, and DaaS platforms
Requirements
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience managing cloud infrastructure, with strong AWS expertise
- Experience administering Linux and Windows Server environments
- Strong knowledge of AWS services: EC2, S3, IAM, CodeDeploy, CloudWatch, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, VPC, ALB, CloudFront, MSK, SQS, SNS, CloudFormation
- Experience with Packer, Docker, and EC2 Image Builder
- Hands-on CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
- Familiarity with IIS, Active Directory, .NET
- Basic SQL administration and experience with Amazon RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB
- Networking experience in hybrid environments
- Strong automation and IaC skills
- Understanding of cloud architecture, security, and monitoring
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Advantage: Jira and Atlassian products
- Preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- Must be legally eligible to work in Canada or the US without sponsorship
Conditions
- Estimated annual compensation of CAD $100,000–$135,000 for candidates hired in Canada
- Fully remote work from anywhere in Canada or the continental United States