Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
$162,240–$210,080 year
Remote · Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Job Summary
Contract remote Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join a genomics-focused infrastructure team for a 3-month engagement. Take ownership of operational excellence and SRE toil reduction, managing production systems in a HIPAA-regulated environment, using HashiCorp tooling, AWS, and Kubernetes, while building automation and IaC to improve reliability and efficiency. Expect on-call rotations, incident response, and collaboration with development teams to enable roadmap initiatives and deliver self-service tooling and improved runbooks.
Required Qualifications
- 5-8 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, SRE, or DevOps engineering
- Strong operational background: Experience managing production systems and handling incidents
- Proven toil reduction skills: Track record of identifying repetitive work and automating it away
- Strong expertise with cloud infrastructure (AWS strongly preferred)
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform required)
- Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Nomad, or similar)
- Experience with service mesh and service discovery (Consul, Istio, or similar)
- Experience with secrets management (Vault, Secrets Manager, or similar)
- Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting, and observability
- Comfortable with on-call work: Experience with incident response and production support
- Proven ability to onboard quickly and become productive in new environments
- Strong troubleshooting skills: Can diagnose complex system issues under pressure
- Self-directed work style: Minimal supervision required for operational work
- Bias for automation: Natural instinct to eliminate manual work
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