TechBlocks

Senior Devops Engineer

Posted 2 Days Ago

3 Locations

In-Office

Senior level

Information Technology • Consulting

The Role

Designs and maintains production-grade CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes deployments, and infrastructure-as-code across GCP environments. Automates provisioning with Terraform and Helm, manages secrets and DevSecOps integrations, and implements monitoring, alerting, autoscaling, and resilience strategies. The role also supports incident management, deployment readiness, documentation, peer reviews, and mentoring junior DevOps engineers.

Summary Generated by Built In

Role: Senior Devops Engineer

Location: Dallas, TX / Toronto, ON

Company Description

At TechBlocks, we power the software-defined industries (SDI) of today and tomorrow. We are a software engineering and consulting firm known for building world-class custom platforms and cloud-native products for some of the world's largest brands. Our approach is centered around Design Thinking and Lean Engineering, enabling us to create frictionless digital experiences and drive efficiencies for our clients. We partner with businesses ranging from $100M to $10B in revenue, helping them transition from technology outsourcing to creating globally distributed digital Centers of Excellence (COEs) and modern digital factories. Our work spans various sectors, including digital commerce, smart utilities, and digital health.

Job Overview

The DevOps Engineer is part of the DevOps team responsible for managing our infrastructure on GCP and collaborating with application developers to automate and expedite the testing, release, and deployment of applications into a runtime environment in a timely and dependable manner.

The ideal candidate will deeply understand cloud infrastructure and have experience with automation and deployment tools. You will work closely with the development and operations teams to design and implement infrastructure solutions that are scalable, secure, and highly

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Argo CD for production-grade deployments.

• Define branching strategies and workflow templates for development teams.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes manifests across multiple environments.

• Implement and maintain container orchestration strategies on GKE, including Helm-based deployments.

• Manage secrets lifecycle using Vault and integrate with CI/CD for secure deployments.

• Integrate DevSecOps tools like Trivy, SonarQube, and JFrog into CI/CD workflows.

• Collaborate with engineering leads to review deployment readiness and ensure quality gates are met.

• Monitor infrastructure health and capacity planning using Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog; implement alerting rules.

• Implement auto-scaling, self-healing, and other resilience strategies in Kubernetes.

Drive process documentation, review peer automation scripts, and provide mentoring to junior DevOps engineers

Experience Required:

7+ years in DevOps engineering roles with proven expertise in CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and Kubernetes.

Mandatory:

Cloud: GCP (GKE, Compute Engine, Load Balancing, VPN, IAM)
Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog
CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD
Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker
Incident Management: On-call, RCA, SLIs/SLOs
IaC: Terraform, Helm
Security: Vault, Shared VPC, Trivy, OWASP concepts
Incident Tools: PagerDuty, OpsGenie

Nice to Have:

GCP Monitoring, Service Mesh (Istio), Pub/Sub, API Gateway – Kong
Advanced scripting (Python, Bash, Node.js)
Skywalking, Rancher, Jira, Freshservice
GCP Certification is Plus
GCP Spanner, MongoDB (basic)

Skills Required

7+ years of experience in DevOps engineering roles
Proven expertise in CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and Kubernetes
GCP experience with GKE, Compute Engine, Load Balancing, VPN, and IAM
Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Datadog experience
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Argo CD experience
Kubernetes and Docker experience
On-call support, root cause analysis, and SLIs/SLOs experience
Terraform and Helm experience
Vault, Shared VPC, Trivy, and OWASP concepts knowledge
PagerDuty and OpsGenie experience
GCP Monitoring, service mesh such as Istio, Pub/Sub, or Kong API Gateway experience
Advanced scripting with Python, Bash, or Node.js
SkyWalking, Rancher, Jira, or Freshservice experience
GCP certification
Basic GCP Spanner and MongoDB knowledge

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The Company

HQ: Vaughan, Ontario

345 Employees

Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

@TechBlocks we power the software defined industries (SDI) of today and tomorrow. We are a software engineering and consulting firm. We build modern digital value chains and businesses reimagined to create frictionless experiences for innovative monetization methods and drive unforeseen efficiencies. We are known to build world class custom platforms and products that are cloud native for some of the worlds largest brands. We are the go to technology partners for born in digital businesses that grew with us from "Concept to Commercialization" and have revenues between $100M - $10B. We help modern businesses transition just from a technology outsourcing mentality to help create globally distributed digital COEs and mature them. Our converged COEs that we create in partnership with our clients help power software factories that are extremely dynamic. We have created modern digital COEs and factories that are created with a single minded goal to future proof our clients businesses. Everything we do is centred around two philosophies and practices - Design Thinking and Lean Engineering. Whether it is building digital commerce platforms, marketplace for worlds largest retailers or smart utilities applications and products or digital health products/platforms that power wearables, patches or devices across healthcare landscape; we do it all with speed and sophistication that is unmatched in the industry