Project Overview

• The Labour and Transportation I&IT Cluster (LTC) Operations Maintenance and Support Branch (OMSB) is responsible for delivering and supporting the Employment Ontario Information System (EOIS) platform to the Ontario Public Service (OPS).
  
• The Employment Ontario Information System (EOIS) platform is a group of integrated systems that are used by multiple client ministries for supporting the Employment Ontario programs and services to nearly one million clients across the province.
  
• These applications are hosted in approximately seventy plus (40+) servers in Microsoft Azure Cloud that need to be upgraded so that cloud technologies can be leveraged for business benefits.
  
• To meet the demands of the EOIS projects – the Labour and Transportation I&IT Cluster (LTC) is looking to hire an DevOPS Cloud Engineer with strong knowledge of Azure Cloud.
  

Deliverables

The DevOps Cloud Engineer will complete the following activities:

• Contribute to ongoing project activities:
  
• Contribute to the technical design of the environment
  
• Design and Implement DevOps Strategy, Processes and Azure Pipelines
  
• Design and Implement Application infrastructure automation and configuration
  
• Build and deploy the new environment
  
• Define and develop build book and support guides and provide knowledge transfer and training to IT team
  

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Implement Azure Automation with DevOps
  
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation using Terraform and Azure DevOps tool
  
• Implement virtual networking (VNet) using IP addressing, Network Security Groups (NSG), Azure Firewall, Azure DNS
  
• Experience with Azure Container Instance (CI) / Docker Image / Kubernetes using Azure App Service / Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Azure Administration:

Demonstrated experience to

• Implement Azure Automation with DevOps
  
• Create Azure Resources using Azure Resource Manager Templates, Azure CLI
  
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation using Terraform and Azure DevOps tool with Git Repo
  
• Manage Azure AD identities, Subscriptions & RBAC
  
• OS Security and Middleware patching
  

Continuous Deployment and Release Management:

Demonstrated experience to

• Build a High-Quality release pipeline with Continuous Delivery (CD)
  
• Manage application configuration data
  
• Configure pipelines as code with YAML
  
• Create Release dashboard and manage deployments using Release Gates
  
• Provision and test environments
  
• Automate inspection of health
  
• Integrate with Identity Management System (IAM) and Azure Key Vault
  

Virtual Networking, Storage and Virtual Machines (VM):

Demonstrated experience to

• Implement virtual networking (VNet) using IP addressing, Network Security Groups (NSG), Azure Firewall, Azure DNS
  
• Implement traffic management using Azure Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Traffic Manager, Network routing, Endpoints with SSL/TLS certificates
  
• Implement Storage Security and manage Azure Storage, Blob, File/File Sync and Storage Accounts
  
• Plan, create and manage Virtual Machines using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Microsoft Windows Servers and IBM HTTP Web Server, WebSphere, Tomcat, Apache, and IIS
  

Serverless Computing:

Demonstrated experience to:

• Implement Azure Container Instance (CI) / Docker Image / Kubernet using Azure App Service / Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  

Data Protection / Monitoring:

Demonstrated experience to

• Implement data protection File / Folder and Virtual Machines backups
  
• Implement monitoring using Azure Monitor, Alerts, Log Analytics and Network Watcher