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DevOps Specialist

Summary

Xpan Interactive is seeking a DevOps Specialist with infosec experience to join the Products team with a focus on supporting and maintaining our SaaS environment and applications.

You will help automate and streamline product operations and processes; build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations; and troubleshoot / resolve issues in our development, test and production environments and act on occasion in the role of a key systems administrator for various DevOps systems.

Reporting to the VP Products, you will be instrumental in moving our data security and privacy initiatives forward.

Here’s What You’ll Do

  • Manage our AWS and DBaaS infrastructure to ensure scalability and high availability.
  • Assist with SOC1/2 roadmap including aspects of security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, privacy, access controls, audits, etc.
  • Assist with quality assurance for all Xpan systems.
  • Help shape the technologies used to solve some of our fundamental challenges (e.g. CI/CD, container orchestration, logging, security, etc.)

Here’s What You Need

General Skills and Competencies

  • Ability to define and organize an architecture security apparatus in reusable
    building blocks: patterns, services, components, capability models, etc.
  • Demonstrated capability to understand the security implications of complex business
    operations and how they are linked to technological solutions that provide
    practical risk mitigation and business enablement
  • Ability to derive security requirements from vaguely formulated business needs
  • Ability to interact with a broad cross-section of personnel to explain and enforce
    security measures
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Detail-oriented self-starter with a high level of commitment and personal motivation
  • Knack for prioritizing tasks and working in a fast-paced environment


Technical Skills

  • Strong knowledge of the processes, methodologies, tools and techniques, used for
    building scalable information technology systems in private and public
    clouds (AWS, SkySQL)
  • Knowledge of standards, regulations and legislation governing Information Security,
    e.g. OWASP, NIST, ISO 27001
  • Knowledge of general IT security architecture and technologies including:
    service-oriented-architectures, mobile technologies including Mobile
    Device Management (MDM), data-centric design, advanced analytics, AI,
    Identity and Access Management (IAM) lifecycles, Digital Forensics, End
    Point Encryption, Encryption Key Management, Database Security, IDS, IPS,
    Next Generation Firewall, Application Firewall, Enterprise Password
    Vaults, Cloud SaaS /PaaS/IaaS Security, SIEM, etc., an asset
  • Understanding of securing APIs, an asset
  • Knowledge of container security, especially Kubernetes, an asset


Additional Skills

  • Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.)
  • Strong knowledge of Docker and creation/maintenance of dockerfiles
  • Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and creation/maintenance of Kubernetes manifests
  • Experience with Helm and Terraform
  • Experience with Secret Managers (i.e. HashCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault, Google Cloud
    Key Management, etc.)
  • Experience in designing multistage pipeline flows including CI/CD/CT
  • Experience in administering Linux and Windows systems
  • Experience with security tooling and Identity and Access Management (IAM) including
    RBAC
  • Experience programing using API (RESTful, gRPC, GraphQL, etc.)
  • Familiar with backend server architectures using Service Oriented Architecture or
    Micro-services design methodologies
  • Ability to accurately estimate efforts of the tasks assigned
  • Ability to work on multiple projects in parallel and meet deliverables dates
  • Very good technical documentation skills
  • Strong communication, influencing and presentation skills
  • Leadership skills and ability to influence and guide others on integration and
    technical matters
  • Proven experience delivering technology projects involving multiple parties
  • Knowledge of IT security principles
  • Ability to clarify requirements and ensure solution meets business needs
  • Strong systems engineering knowledge
  • Ability to estimate efforts and costs required for delivery
  • Strong sense or prioritization for meeting deadlines
  • Strong knowledge how to monitor applications and infrastructure
  • Knowledge in logs management, application monitoring, infrastructure monitoring
  • Knowledge of monitoring and logging for containers and orchestrators.
  • Strong knowledge in cloud computing (AWS EC2, Auto-scaling)
  • Knowledge of networking, security, and protocols
  • Knowledge of OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect (OIDC) and SAML 2.0 a plus.
  • Knowledge of mobile app integrations a plus

Experience

  • Minimum 5 years overall work experience
  • 3+ years’ experience in Software Development, DevOps, and Cloud
  • Experience designing, configuring, and deploying DevOps systems and tools
  • Knowledge of container security, an asset
  • Multi-cloud experience including AWS, SkySQL, an asset
  • Experience with Agile methodologies, an asset
  • Experience with the duties required of a SRE, an asset
  • Experience with SOC1/2, HIPPA, GDPR compliance an asset


Education/Certification/Designation

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical
    Engineering, or another relevant field
  • DevOps Certification an asset
  • AWS certification an asset
  • Security certification: e.g. Certified Information Systems Security Professional
    (CISSP), Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), Certified Cloud
    Security Professional (CCSP), GIAC Cloud Security Automation (GCSA), etc.
    an asset

Additional Information

  • Remote working environment
  • 40 hours a week 
  • 8:30am to 5:00 Mon-Fri MST

Xpan is committed to diversity and inclusion. As a global company, we want to ensure our team is reflective of the voices that we serve. We strongly encourage applications from all communities and identities.

If you would like to join a top-notch team of smart, creative, enthusiastic professionals producing engaging interactive media for great clients, send your resume to careers@xpan.ca.