DevOps Solutions Architect

The Dev Ops Solutions Architect is a member of the IT Enterprise Applications team - focusing on Dev Ops, SRE and AI Ops.

• Dev Ops focuses on the end-to-end application lifecycle.
• SRE focuses on delivery and the stability of the production environment.
• AI Ops is centered on the deployment, oversight, and monitoring of AI-specific elements.

You are responsible for the smooth operation of Teknion’s Enterprise Applications infrastructure. You have an essential role in integrating the various project solutions within the existing application and infrastructure.

You will interface directly with your senior technology leaders to transform business and technology capabilities. You will be a dedicated contributor to senior leaders as they define a target state, roadmaps, and identify new and emerging technologies that will transform and optimize the business.

• Design and implement end to end highly scalable and resilient solutions for infrastructure and application services with Teknion’s hybrid clouds
• Software Automated Delivery
  • Design, implement, and manage Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes
  • Automate the configuration and management of systems and applications
  • Design, implement and manage Source Code Control (Github); software components and build artifacts in a repository manager integrating into CI/CD pipelines
  • Test Automations driven by Test-Driven Development strategies in partnership with development leading to increase in code quality and confidence
• Web Application Firewall & Reverse Proxy
  • Manage application security posture protecting APIs & Web Applications at the edge
  • Manage the deployment and configuration of application based definitions
  • Integrate WAF into CI/CD pipelines to ensure security is built into development process
  • Align & implement WAF policies with industry & organization standards
  • Implement and manage Reverse Proxy and Web Application Firewalls (Cloudflare WAF) to provide unified application security posture protecting APIs & Web Applications at the edge; reduces client-side risks
• Cyber Security o Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management. Address Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) as per established procedures
• Other duties as assigned

• Reliability and Availability
  • Design and implement Development, QA, UAT and Production application & database environments
  • Ensure application environments, tools & approved 3rd party components are kept up to date as per established patching & update procedures. Liaise with vendors to manage the monthly patching exercises
  • Ensure unplanned downtime is kept to a minimum (preferred 0.00%)
  • Implement automated processes wherever possible with continuous modernization and upgrade of existing processes / scripts
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
  • Manage, Configure and monitor applications related IAM actions
• Responding to and mitigating production incidents.
• Conducting post-incident reviews (postmortems) to identify root causes and prevent future occurrences.
• Monitoring and Alerting
  • Designing and implementing comprehensive monitoring systems to track system health and performance.
  • Setting up effective alerting mechanisms to notify teams of potential issues.
  • Participate in code reviews, security audits, and performance testing to maintain the integrity of Cloud and Hybrid solutions
• Change Management
  • Managing and automating the deployment of software changes.
  • Implementing safe deployment practices, such as canary releases and blue-green deployments.
  • Participate & contribute in IT / Cyber Security Change Advisory Board meetings
• Strategic Planning, Performance Optimization & Capacity Planning
  • Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt
  • Provides architecture direction for developers recognizing custom and standard technical frameworks, GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) audit policies and procedures including PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and CUI (Controlled Unclassified Information)
  • Participates in defining target state technology architecture and roadmaps & ensure…