Senior DevOps Developer

Description

Be a part of a transformational journey with innovative and leading edge technologies.

Join our team

With the convergence of innovative home and mobile networking technologies, including fibre and 5G, smart home solutions, mobile devices, automation, cloud computing, and over-the-top capabilities, our network has to be more reliable and be provisioned faster to meet the demand. Every day, TELUS’ engineering and development teams are envisioning what the future holds and building the technologies to simplify our customers’ lives, provide services at the touch of a button, and create immersive entertainment experiences.

As a Senior DevOps Developer of our Cloud DevOps team, you will be at the helm of designing and supporting a plethora of home and TV/media platforms and features using Agile development processes. This team is a part of our Future Friendly Home Services DevOps team, which is responsible for the end-to-end technology development and operations of TELUS’ Optik TV services, video and over-the-top services, broadband network capabilities, smart home solutions, and software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions. This is an exciting time to be a part of our mission to drive better outcomes through state-of-the- art software platforms. The possibilities are endless and we’re looking for a software enthusiast and self-starter who is filled with ideas as well as the delivery-focused mindset to execute them!

This is an exciting time to be a part of our mission to drive better outcomes through state-of-the- art software platforms. The possibilities are endless and we’re looking for a software enthusiast and self-starter who is filled with ideas as well as the delivery-focused mindset to execute them!

Our success is based as much on your dedication and hard work as it is on the innovative solutions we offer.

Here’s the impact you’ll make and what we’ll accomplish together

You will help to define the architecture and implementation for our Optik TV Platform, integrating developed software components from leading vendors into a complex cloud pattern, in order to deliver the best TV experience for our customer.

Here's how:

• You will develop new microservice architectures and delivery pipelines to provide the best experience to software engineers and customers
• Work with cloud-native technologies, combining the modern technologies, practices, and products into a cohesive platform to enable world-leading software development
• You will participate in a large-scale project involving a number of backend, web, and mobile applications, all structured around Agile practices and a DevOps culture
• You will work with other senior architects in order to identify the best way to develop, integrate, and deliver a new service
• You will provide an indication of the effort needed to implement the necessary architectures, to support the technical leads create unified and reliable delivery plans
• You will work cross-functionally to define SLIs, SLOs, SLAs and setup the proper monitoring and alerting to minimize downtime
• Operational processes and procedures are part of your DNA
• You will provide an indication of the effort needed to implement the necessary solutions based on your proactive operational observations.
  

Qualifications

You're the missing piece of the puzzle with these skills:

• Public cloud (GCP, AWS)
• Container platforms (GKE, EKS, OpenShift)
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
• Continuous Integration/Delivery (GitHub Actions, GCP Cloud Build)
• Backend and API development (Java, NodeJs, Go, Python)
• Agile product management – SAFE, Scrum, Kanban, etc
• 8+ years of relevant experience, advanced technical and analytical skills, confident in making and owning technical decisions
• Advanced ability to lead and collaborate with a variety of diverse groups and technical teams (internal and/or external)
• Support specific customer issues through assessment, interpretation, resolution or recommendations
• Creative approach to problem solving and an ability to work independently in an environment with high levels of ambiguity
• Ability to manage key deliverables as part of an extended project team
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; confident with presenting material to peers and senior management
• Bachelors in Engineering or Computer Science

Required Skills & Abilities:

• You have 5+ experience as DevOps and software engineering experience
• You have 3+ years of java development experience
• You have 3+ years of nodejs development experience
• You have worked in environments where you were responsible for understanding and ensuring the reliable operation of deployments from end-to-end (front-end to database as well as data ingestion pipelines)
• Worked with monitoring tools and understand best practices for alerting
• A strong understanding and previous experience with infrastructure on prem, cloud infrastructure such as GCP or other clouds etc
• Understanding of SSH, VPN, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP(S), network routing and subnets
• Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code - Terraform, Ansible
• Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus or similar tools used to monitor and troubleshoot.
• You have good operational knowledge on Kubernetes, Cassandra, Elastic Search and MySql
• High degree of curiosity and ownership
  

Great-to-haves

• Site reliability engineering practices
• Multi- or Hybrid-cloud architectures
• Front-end & Mobile application development
• Knowledge of video delivery architectures
• Content encryption and protection