Senior DevOps Engineer
Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer at TELUS Digital, a digital product consultancy, who leads platform engagements end to end: architecting secure cloud landing zones, administering GKE/Kubernetes, building CI/CD pipelines and observability, and executing migrations. Core stack: Google Cloud, Terraform, Python/Go. Remote within Canada.
Who We Are
Welcome to TELUS Digital — where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.
With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, Africa, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across various service offerings: Web, Mobile & Digital Marketing | Enterprise AI | Customer Care AI & Technology | Enterprise Technology Modernization
From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are — all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company.
Location & Flexibility
Canada
Our Senior DevOps Engineer will be an integral part of our team at TELUS Digital. This role will have the option to be remote in Canada.
The Opportunity
Senior DevOps Engineer
Role Summary
The primary execution lead for platform engagements. You own features and work streams from design to production. You are a trusted hands-on expert capable of building secure platforms, automating complex workflows, and executing critical migration tasks.
Role and Responsibility
Architect and implement secure, scalable cloud landing zones, ensuring adherence to best practices for networking and identity management.
Lead technical execution for migration or modernization streams, handling complex cutovers, rollback planning, and data integrity validation.
Design and implement observability solutions, defining Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and actionable alerting policies to reduce operational noise.
Refactor legacy deployment processes into modern, automated CI/CD pipelines that support complex branching and release strategies.
Implement "Shift Left" security practices by integrating automated vulnerability scanning and policy enforcement into the delivery lifecycle.
Administer and optimize Kubernetes clusters, configuring advanced networking, ingress controllers, and autoscaling policies.
Mentor junior consultants by reviewing their code, providing architectural guidance, and enforcing practice-wide engineering standards.
Automate repetitive operational tasks using advanced scripting or custom CLI tools to eliminate toil.
Collaborate with client engineering teams to resolve critical technical blockers and drive adoption of cloud-native patterns.
Required Experience and Qualifications
5–7 years of engineering experience, with at least 3 years focused on Cloud, DevOps, or SRE.
Deep administration skills in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) or comparable container orchestration platforms.
Proficiency in Python or Go for writing robust automation scripts and tooling.
Strong understanding of hybrid connectivity architectures, including VPNs, Interconnects, and DNS resolution.
Proven experience designing and maintaining production-grade Infrastructure-as-Code environments (Terraform).
Certifications
Google Cloud: Professional Cloud Architect
Industry: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
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Skills
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