DevOps Engineer at ShyftLabs – Toronto | Jobyssey

About ShyftLabs

At ShyftLabs, we live and breathe data. Since 2020, we’ve been helping Fortune 500 companies unlock growth through innovative digital solutions that drive real business impact. With teams across Canada, the U.S., and India, we’re growing quickly and looking for curious, motivated individuals who are excited to learn, build, and solve meaningful problems with technology.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a passionate and detail-oriented DevOps Engineer to partner with our development teams and accelerate the deployment, testing, and release of applications. This role involves automating and optimizing our infrastructure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance across various environments.

What you'll be doing

Responsible for the development, optimization and delivery of cloud computing solutions, hosted services and underlying software infrastructure to optimize service delivery across production, QA and development environments through the development lifecycle
Supports and troubleshoots scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, backup and restores of different environments
Evaluates new tools, technologies and processes to improve speed, efficiency and scalability.
Monitor server and application performance using one or more of Application Performance Monitoring tools: NewRelic, CloudWatch and Sumologic
Partners with application developers on the seamless deployment of software
Responsible for optimizing and enhancing infrastructure performance
Manage the installation and configuration of solutions
Oversee routine maintenance procedures and diagnostic testing.
Document processes and monitoring performance metrics.
Implement best practices in network administration and cybersecurity.

Basic Qualifications

3+ years of professional experience in DevOps
BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related IT field
Experience in Information Security and Networking
Background in Linux (RHEL) based infrastructure
Comfortable with command line tools (Bash, Powershell)
Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (such as GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps – GitLab CI/CD preferred)
Experience with building dashboards, configuring and integrating with both infrastructure and application monitoring and alerting tools (such as AWS CloudWatch, NewRelic)
Extensive hands-on proficiency in Infrastructure configuration management and IAC methodologies and technologies (such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Chief, Puppet – Terraform preferred)
Proficiency in common DevOps development languages (such as Python, Node – Python preferred)
Experience on Automation platforms(Ansible)
Experience with serverless frameworks (Zappa, Serverless, Chalice)
Experience with building new Cloud systems that completely support microservice architectures (API Gateway, serverless compute, Redis, NoSQL DBs) as well as legacy client/server architecture (EC2, Docker, Load Balancers, databases).
AWS experience preferred, and candidates with AWS Developer or AWS Solution Architect Associate certifications strongly preferred.
Experience with Java build, packaging and dependency management and storage systems (such as Maven, Gradle, Artifactory)
Experience with integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (such as Cucumber, Robot, Selenium, JMeter)
Experience with creating alerts, dashboards, canned queries – as well as configuring and integrating log aggregation (such as SumoLogic, Splunk, ELK, syslog – SumoLogic preferred)
Experience with the containers and container management systems (such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate/ECS)
Experience with the use of artifacts.
Experience with Deployment strategies
Experience with MS SQL, AWS Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless administration / optimization
Familiar with Agile software development lifecycles
Knowledge of best practices and IT operations for high availability and uptime

Why You’ll Love Working at ShyftLabs

At ShyftLabs, your work matters. We’re a growing data product company making a big impact with Fortune 500 clients and as we scale, you’ll have the chance to shape solutions, influence strategy, and grow your career alongside us.

Here’s what you can expect when you join our team:

-Hybrid Flexibility: Enjoy a hybrid model with three days per week in our Toronto office.

-Downtown Toronto Office: Work in the heart of the city.

-Comprehensive Benefits: We cover 100% of health, dental, and vision insurance premiums for you and your dependents which means no out-of-pocket costs. Eligibility starts from day one itself.

-Growth & Learning: Access extensive learning and development resources to keep leveling up your skills.

Inclusion at ShyftLabs

We’re building something big, and we want you on the journey with us. If you’re ready to use data and innovation to make an impact, apply today and let’s grow together.

ShyftLabs is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a safe, diverse, and inclusive environment. We encourage applicants of all backgrounds including ethnicity, religion, disability status, gender identity, sexual orientation, family status, age, and nationality to apply. If you require accommodation during the interview process, let us know and we’ll be happy to support you.

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What you'll be doing

Basic Qualifications