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Lead DevOps Engineer

Organization:

Ministry of Finance

Division:

Ontario Digital Service

City:

Toronto

Language of Position(s):

English

Job Term:

1 Temporary up to 12 months with possible extension

Job Code:

17162 - Systems Officer 6

Salary:

$1,704.17 - $2,128.95 Per Week*
*Indicates the salary listed as per the OPSEU Collective Agreement.

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Posting Status:

Open

Job ID:

179997

Join the Ontario Digital Service (ODS) to design and deliver the future of government services.

People are at the heart of our mission to ensure that government works for everyone. Be a part of a world-leading public service, and help improve the lives of over 14 million people of Ontario, through our work using modern design, data, and technology tools and practices.

The ODS is improving the online experience for Ontarians by redesigning the most important government services for the digital age. We own and support a growing number of public-facing internet-era products, including web content management, web publishing, online public consultations, open-data catalogue and visualization, laws repository, location and mapping, search, API, and more.

Help us scale impact across the public sector, tackling some of the most important challenges of our time. We work in multi-disciplinary, inclusive, collaborative teams. We've been a distributed team since day one, offering flexible work arrangements, where big ideas and extraordinary people come together to drive change.

Bring your curiosity and build the future with us.

The Opportunity

As a Lead DevOps Engineer in the ODS, you will design, build and support cloud environments so that developers can create digital products that will change the way the public interacts with the government. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team that drives digital transformation, exploring new technology trends that continue to redefine IT, business and the way we service the citizens of Ontario. Working with a high-impact team, you will be constantly learning new technologies and techniques through research, experimentation, and collaborating with other colleagues. The ideal candidates should have at least 8 years of hands-on experience designing, building, delivering and supporting cloud platforms.

What can I expect to do in this role?

The ODS is, by design, a new way of working:

• You will have a unique opportunity to enable products and services that impact an Ontarian's day-to-day government experience.
• You will be part of an agile, self-directed, multi-disciplinary team that includes a Product Manager, an Agile Project Manager, Software Developers, User Experience Researchers, Experience Designers, and Content Advisors.
• Your expertise in designing and building cost-effective infrastructure, build to deployment, and support will improve the lives of the people of Ontario.
• You will be constantly learning new technologies and techniques through research and experimentation.

What you bring to the team:

• You think digital by default and embrace new ideas that put users first to find the best solutions.
• Someone who is solution-oriented and knows how to get the job done.
• You are proactive, take initiative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• You believe cognitive diversity and inclusion help create the best conditions for people to achieve the best results.

Your impact:

• You will be the custodian of ODS Cloud environments. You have designed, built and maintained stable, secure, and scalable cloud environments that make it possible for teams to deliver high-quality digital products.
• Your expertise in continuous delivery will help us automate our testing and deployment pipelines to deliver faster solutions.
• Your ability to monitor and assess the performance of applications in the cloud environment will ensure our solutions are available anytime, anywhere.
• You will create, test and implement operational safeguards that maintain the integrity of data and protect against unauthorized access.
• As our platforms continue to modernize the online government experience, we will rely on your DevOps expertise to guide other team members.

How do I qualify?

Technical Knowledge and Skills:

• You are a seasoned expert in one of the leading cloud platforms like AWS.
• You have experience in production environments such as Kubernetes.
• You are familiar with container-based virtualization technology.
• You have knowledge of DevOps tools and techniques, and in-depth technical knowledge of system architectures, including technical, data, application and network architectures.
• You have experience implementing software engineering practices for full software development life cycles (SDLC), including coding standards, code reviews, source code management, build processes, and testing.
• You have experience working independently with high-level direction to build and maintain complex Linux cloud environments, like CentOS, Ubuntu or CoreOS, to support modern web technologies.
• You have extensive knowledge and demonstrated experience in open source search and analytics engines like Elasticsearch (Setup, configuration, watcher, and alerts).
• You have fluency in scripting languages like Python, Bash, PHP, Java, JavaScript, Node, and others.
• You have experience in build tools like Git, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, and others for continuous integration.
• You have integration experience using and building APIs.
• You have worked with relational and non-relational databases like MySQL, MongoDB, and others.

Standards and Best Practices Skills:

• You have experience applying industry cloud and security standards and best practices to your work that can be adopted by others.
• You have designed, implemented and maintained DevOps continuous delivery pipelines to manage from build to deployment and cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as code practices.
• You have knowledge of common authentication technologies, security controls, and standard application security tools.
• You have experience securing environments using offensive and defensive approaches.
• You have shared best practices and tools with your peers across the organization.
• You can research industry best practices to support DevOps standards, and apply them to your work.

Communication and Collaboration Skills:

• You are a strong communicator who collaborates on your work within a multi-disciplinary team.
• You have strong leadership skills to support and guide team members.
• You have experience influencing others by persuasion rather than authority – making your case through excellent communication, speaking clearly to be easily understood, and persuasive writing skills.
• Your responsibilities include working closely with internal and external partners and team members.
• You are comfortable leading discussions and selling your ideas to technical and non-technical colleagues, and senior management.

Project and Digital Expertise:

• You can articulate methods for build/buy decisions on project components, identify common IT risks and address them with contingency plans and back-out options.
• You can analyze designs and determine coding, programming and integration activities to identify issues and provide product solutions.
• You have worked on an established environment, balancing the need to address technical debt with new enhancements through continuous iterations.
• You are adept at navigating complex issues, handling partners and stakeholder interactions.
• You have worked with partners to establish relationships with their security, operations, and IT teams.
• You have experience providing production support for multiple cloud environments with a focus on quality, security, reliability and scalability.

OPS Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Anti-Racism:

We are committed to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and to promote a diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, accessible, merit-based, respectful and equitable workplace.

We invite all interested individuals to apply and encourage applications from people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black, and racialized individuals, as well as people from a diversity of ethnic and cultural origins, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.

Visit the OPS Anti-Racism Policy and the OPS Diversity and Inclusion Blueprint pages to learn more about the OPS commitment to advance racial equity, accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in the public service.

We offer employment accommodation across the recruitment process and all aspects of employment consistent with the requirements of Ontario's Human Rights Code. Refer to the application instructions below if you require a disability-related accommodation.

Additional Information:

At the ODS, we recognize that official qualifications and education are not necessarily the only way to gain experience. Your lived experience is valuable to our team.

For more information about the ODS, please check out the links below:

•About Us
•Jobs at the ODS
•Digital Service Standard
•COVID-19: Digital Rapid Response
•Sign Up For Job Posting Alerts

Additional Information:

Address:

1 English Temporary, duration up to 12 months, 595 Bay St, Toronto, Toronto Region, Criminal Record Check

Compensation Group:

Ontario Public Service Employees Union

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Schedule:

Category:

Information Technology

Posted on:

Monday, April 4, 2022

Note:

In accordance with the Ontario Public Service (OPS), Employment Screening Checks Policy (ESCP), the top candidate(s) may be required to undergo a security screening check. Refer to the above to determine the screening checks that are required for this position.

Required security screening checks along with your written consent, will be sent to the Transition and Security Office (TSO), Talent Development Branch, Talent and Leadership Division to evaluate the results. If applicable, the TSO, with your written consent, will request and obtain any additional employment screening checks that were not obtained directly by you.

A record under the Criminal Code and/or other federal offence record(s) does not automatically mean you will be ineligible for the position. The employment screening check(s) will only be reviewed and evaluated by the TSO for the purpose of making a security clearance decision. The details of an individual's employment screening check(s) will be considered in specific relation to the duties and responsibilities of the position being filled. Employment screening check records will be maintained by the TSO and kept strictly confidential.
E-TB-179997/22 - The information that you provide for the purpose of this competition and the results from this competition may be used to fill other positions. These positions may be of various tenures, including short-term assignments. Your information and the results from this competition will be retained for the purpose of filling vacancies in accordance with the applicable collective agreement or policy provisions.

Effective, January 1, 2022, the updated salary range for this position is $1,704.17 to $2,128.95 per week in alignment with the recently ratified OPSEU Unified 2022-2024 collective agreement.

Please be advised that the results of this competition may be used to form an eligibility list of qualified candidates to potentially fill future vacancies represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU). In accordance with the Collective Agreement, eligibility lists are shared with OPSEU representatives. By applying to this competition, you are providing consent that your name may be shared with OPSEU representatives.

All external applicants (including former employees of the Ontario Public Service) applying to a competition in a ministry or Commission public body must disclose (either in the cover letter or resume) previous employment with the Ontario Public Service. Disclosure must include positions held, dates of employment and any active restrictions as applicable from being rehired by the Ontario Public Service. Active restrictions can include time and/or ministry-specific restrictions currently in force, and may preclude a former employee from being offered a position with the Ontario Public Service for a specific time period (e.g. one year), or from being offered a position with a specific ministry (either for a pre-determined time period or indefinitely). The circumstances around an employee's exit will be considered prior to an offer of employment.

Remember: The deadline to apply is Wednesday, April 20, 2022 11:59 pm EDT. Late applications will not be accepted.

We thank you for your interest. Only those selected for further screening or an interview will be contacted.

All Ontario Public Service external job advertisements are posted in English and French. To confirm the language requirements of a job, check the "language of position" information at the top of each job ad. For all positions, candidates will be assessed in English, the business language of the Ontario Public Service. For English/French designated bilingual positions, candidates will also be assessed through French-language proficiency testing.

Toutes les offres d'emploi externes de la fonction publique de l'Ontario sont affichées en anglais et en français. Pour connaître les exigences linguistiques, vérifiez les renseignements sur la « langue du poste » figurant dans le haut de chaque offre d'emploi. Pour tous les postes, l'évaluation des candidates et candidats se fera en anglais, la langue usuelle de la fonction publique de l'Ontario. En ce qui concerne les postes désignés bilingues, la maîtrise du français des candidates et candidats sera également évaluée.

The Ontario Public Service is an inclusive employer.
Accommodation is available under the Ontario's Human Rights Code .

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