Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: Dorval
Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America. Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.
Air Canada is modernizing its application platform using cloud‑native and service‑mesh‑based architectures. The Technical Lead will play a critical leadership role in designing, operating, and evolving our Red Hat Open Shift clusters and the Red Hat Open Shift Service Mesh platform. This is an excellent opportunity for a tech lead to join Air Canada and participate in the development of leading‑edge solutions.
Responsibilities
Maintain, configure and upgrade, and operate workloads deployed on our Red Hat Open Shift clusters
Install, configure, upgrade, and patch Open Shift Service Mesh (OSSM) and its core components (Istio, Envoy, ingress/egress gateways)
Administer authentication and authorization mechanisms within the cluster
Ensure top quality observability of the Open Shift platform
Ensure platform security and compliance, including certificate management, mesh security policies, and vulnerability remediation
Analyze and resolve platform issues
Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures for Open Shift and OSSM
Interpret new and existing requirements and build solutions accordingly
Assist application teams with best practices for deploying and operating services within the service mesh
Assess requirements, identify dependencies/risks and take actions to resolve them
Optimize platform performance and its quality
Identify potential issues within the platform and adjust
Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to understand constraints and runtime requirements
Responsible for continual platform enhancements
Contribute to the continuous enhancement of the teams and their processes by bringing new ideas, solutions, and delivering productive feedback
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent
5+ years in platform engineering, software engineering with demonstrated technical leadership
Experience in software development for enterprise services and applications is a big plus
Strong hands‑on experience operating Red Hat Open Shift clusters in production environments
Deep expertise with Red Hat Open Shift Service Mesh (OSSM) and its core components
Solid understanding of Kubernetes networking concepts, including ingress/egress, service discovery, DNS, and network policies
Strong operational knowledge of Linux, containers, and cloud‑native runtime environments
Demonstrated ability to lead technical design discussions, review architectures, and define platform standards
Experience troubleshooting complex, cross‑layer production issues spanning Kubernetes, networking, and service mesh components
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across platform, SRE, security, and application teams
Strong experience in application development using service‑oriented, web services and event‑driven architectures
Knowledge of API‑related protocols, specifications and data formats
Knowledge of Agile environment with experience in source control systems like Git Hub, Bit‑Bucket, etc.
Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment lifecycle
Knowledge of design and integration patterns
Ability to work effectively and produce high quality work under pressure and in rapidly changing environments or uncertain conditions
Ability and desire to work cooperatively with others on a team in person and remotely
Strong oral, written and interpersonal communication skills
Interest in learning new technologies and in understanding the airline industry
Demonstrate punctuality and dependability to support overall team success in a fast‑paced environment
Assets
Experience with AWS technologies including ROSA
Experience with API‑management software
Red Hat certifications (RHCSA, RHCE, Open Shift certifications)
Software development certifications
Experience in the Airline Industry
Personal Attributes
Inspires and energizes engineering teams with a high level of enthusiasm, fostering a culture of…
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