Description:
At Canada Life, we’re passionate about integrating and building software that solves problems. We count on our site reliability engineering specialists (SREs) to empower developers and business partners with high availability, and stellar performance level to pursue their missions. As we maintain and modernize our data integration capabilities, we’re seeking an SRE to deliver insights, resilience and operational excellence. Specifically, we’re searching for someone who enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive developer and business partner experiences for every interaction.
What you will do
- Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
- Integrate and Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
- Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
- Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating for continual improvement
- Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications.
- Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
- Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
- Create sustainable systems and services through automation
- Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service-level objective
What you will bring
- Bachelor’s dgree or College Diploma in computer science or related discipline
- Previous success in technical engineering
- Coding experience beyond simple scripts
- Experience operating Ab Initio ETL platform
- Experience implementing and operating Informatica IDMC
- Experience with data services on Microsoft Azure
- Ability to program (structured and OOP) using one or more high-level languages, such as Python, Java, and JavaScript
- Experience with distributed storage technologies such as NFS, HDFS, as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Apache, Kubernetes)
- Proactive approach to identifying problems, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement