RQ11142 - Sr. Cloud Application Specialist
1-year 11-month contract (447 business days) - possible extension
ONSITE 5 days - 222 Jarvis, Toronto or 49 Place d'Armes, Kingston
Security Level: CRJMC
NOTE: Rate is important for this role 30% (Lowest per diem proposed to RFS/Specific Vendor per diem) x maximum points in resume evaluation
Must have:
- Minimum 8–10+ years of hands-on experience in cloud application development and engineering,
- Demonstrated recent expertise in Microsoft Azure (App Services, Azure Functions, AKS), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift), and DevOps/automation tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines), including building and integrating scalable, cloud-native enterprise solutions.
- Demonstrated experience in enterprise cloud architecture, security (IAM, encryption, compliance), data engineering (ETL/ELT, Azure data services), observability (monitoring/logging), and advanced DevOps/DevSecOps practices, including API-driven integration, CI/CD pipeline design, and scalable, high-availability solution delivery
- Experience with writing code to interact with RESTful APIs to replace manual processes such as assigning IP addresses and DNS codes.
- Demonstrated experience designing, developing and implementing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with integrated security (DevSecOps)
Nice-to-have:
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Public sector experience working on mainframe/legacy systems
Responsibilities:
- Create applications that are served on the cloud
- Create the software platform to run on virtual systems
- Fine-tune the final program after it has been created
- Facilitate IT development, design, construction, testing, promotion, implementation of web-based/n-tier, cloud-based and mainframe applications for workstreams.
- Responsible for development utilizing a combination of cloud technologies to develop an integrated solution for online transactional processing and integration
- Responsible for in integration of any Open Source Software (OSS) products into new and existing systems
- Creation and walk-through of Systems Response documents, Technical Specifications, Application Inventory, and Implementation Plans.
- Preparation of test plans, test data, and unit-testing of programs.
- Preparation of implementation plans and promotion of programs.
- System Support/Documentation
- As assigned, response to client queries and troubleshooting of production incidents.
- Conduct/participate in design walkthroughs as well as test case and test results walkthroughs.
- Support testing of the changes by other team members.
- Weekly reporting on status, progress, and key issue/concerns as directed by the Project Lead/Project Manager or Portfolio Manager.
- Transfer skills and knowledge to selected OPS staff
General Skills:
- Experience creating applications that are served on the cloud
- Experience creating the software platform to run on virtual systems
- Experience fine-tuning the final program after it has been made
- Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle from business systems analysis through requirements gathering and functional specification
- Ability to troubleshoot code and make system changes as needed to resolve issues
- Experience modify existing software to correct errors to adapt it to new hardware or to upgrade interfaces and improve performance
- Experience consulting with engineering staff to evaluate interface between hardware and software
- Experience developing specifications and performance requirements and resolving customer problems
- Must know at least one programming language and should be proficient in that
- Be familiar with software development concepts and databases
- Fluency with Hypervisor and Virtualization techniques
- Have at least fundamental knowledge of cloud computing and basic Networking skills
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team
- A team player with proven track record for meeting deadlines
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Note: The higher end of the range is intended for absolutely exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.
INCORPORATED RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)
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$88.34/hr - $106.03/hr Inc.
T4 RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)
