Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior Dev Ops Engineer

Company:
Boeing Vancouver

Boeing Vancouver is seeking a Senior Dev Ops Engineer, reporting to the Manager of Defence & Government Services working out of the Richmond, BC office. The ideal senior Dev Ops engineer is a cloud-native platform expert with deep Azure Functions, CI/CD, IaC, and observability skills, plus strong leadership and cross-team collaboration abilities. The Dev Ops Engineer will be supporting the Defence & Government Services portfolio and will primarily work in collaboration and under the functional direction of our Solutions Architect.

The role will exercise systems and data expertise, with a particular emphasis on on-prem infrastructure and application design, deployment and support for CI/CD. The dynamic and rapidly advancing technologies in the world of deployment require engineers that proactively stay up to date with new technologies and are always refining their craft. The Senior Dev Ops Engineer will work closely with a team to ensure high availability and redundancy of all systems.

The role requires a strong blend of technical expertise, leadership skills, and operational experience.

• CI/CD Automation – Expert in building and optimizing pipelines in Git Lab CI, with end‑to‑end automation for build, test, deploy, and rollback.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Strong hands‑on with Terraform or similar to provision and manage Azure resources consistently.
• Container & Kubernetes – Experience deploying and managing containerized workloads (AKS, Docker) alongside serverless functions.
• Observability & Reliability – Implements monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance tuning; supports incident response and root cause analysis.
• Security & Governance – Integrates security controls into pipelines, enforces Azure Policy, RBAC, and secrets management.
• Cross‑functional collaboration – Works closely with developers, architects, security, and product teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions.
• Mentorship & Technical Guidance – Leads technical direction, mentors junior/mid‑level engineers, and shares best practices.
• Problem‑solving – Resolves complex infrastructure, deployment, and reliability issues across distributed systems.
• Maintains Compliance. Implements security‑by‑design, cloud migration planning, and cost optimization s as a bridge between technical teams and executives, translating complex tech into business outcomes.
• Leads a multidisciplined range of technical systems and application activities. Leads activities to install, configure and maintain multiplatform systems hardware, software and components.
• Leads activities to plan, develop, design, integrate and maintain all computer applications. Plans and coordinates highly complex software and hardware for enterprise release.
• Ensures systems conform with architectural objectives. Evaluates complex system's production readiness and supportability.
• Performs the restoration of complex computing service operations. Participate in incident response and post‑mortem analysis to continuously improve system reliability and performance.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of configurations, operations, and troubleshooting procedures. Ensure all infrastructure components are securely configured and up‑to‑date with the latest security patches.

• 10+ years of experience in Dev Ops, cloud engineering, or platform engineering, including 3+ years working with Microsoft Azure or another cloud platform.
• Proven experience designing, operating, and supporting secure, scalable, and highly available cloud platforms.
• Ability to work independently while providing both hands‑on technical support and strategic guidance.
• 5+ years of experience with…