Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer to lead the automation, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and operational enablement of enterprise platform environments and cloud services. In this role, you will design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, provision Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automate complex release cycles across multiple environments, and enforce cloud security and observability standards in Microsoft Azure. Leveraging senior-level software development practices, you will develop custom utilities, APIs, and operational tooling while partnering with development, architecture, security, and operations teams to enhance release predictability, platform reliability, and system resilience.

Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)

Duration: 11-month contract

Advantages
Modern Azure Ecosystem: Hands-on ownership of Azure infrastructure, platform services, container orchestration, and security frameworks.

Software-Driven DevOps: Combine deep infrastructure automation with production-grade development of tools, utilities, and internal APIs.

End-to-End Release Ownership: Lead release automation, observability, and environment management across enterprise microservices and distributed applications.

Dedicated Onsite Collaboration: Collaborate directly alongside senior architects, developers, and security leads in a focused Toronto workspace.

Responsibilities
CI/CD Pipeline & Release Engineering: Design, build, optimize, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for applications, databases, integrations, and infrastructure across multi-tier environments.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Cloud Provisioning: Provision, configure, and maintain Microsoft Azure infrastructure and platform services utilizing Infrastructure as Code, containerization, and automated configuration management frameworks.

Internal Tooling & Automation Development: Develop and maintain tools, scripts, utilities, APIs, and reusable platform automation using modern programming languages, applying standard software engineering practices (source control, unit testing, code reviews, and documentation).

Developer Enablement & Technical Troubleshooting: Partner directly with software development teams to troubleshoot and resolve application code issues, dependency conflicts, build failures, automated tests, integration bugs, and deployment bottlenecks.

Cloud Security & Secrets Management: Implement and maintain secure configuration baselines, certificate management, secrets handling, RBAC identity controls, vulnerability remediations, and compliance governance.

Observability & Operational Health: Design, configure, and maintain logging, tracing, telemetry, centralized alerting, monitoring dashboards, and health checks to ensure application availability and performance.

Release Governance & Operational Runbooks: Coordinate environment readiness, release gates, rollbacks, disaster recovery plans, production stabilization, and create detailed operational runbooks and knowledge-transfer documentation.

Qualifications
CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code: Proven experience designing and implementing automated CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and Infrastructure as Code for large-scale enterprise applications (Strictly Required).

Multi-Environment Release Management: Demonstrated experience supporting multiple environments (dev, test, staging, prod) and orchestrating complex release and rollback processes (Strictly Required).

Automation & Software Development: Hands-on experience developing tools, scripts, utilities, APIs, or automation using modern programming languages and standard software development practices (source control, code reviews, unit testing) (Strictly Required).

Microsoft Azure Cloud Architecture: Deep experience with Azure infrastructure, platform services (PaaS/IaaS), cloud networking, identity management (Entra ID), monitoring, and security controls (Strictly Required).

Microservices & Distributed Systems: Practical experience operating, diagnosing, and supporting microservices architectures, RESTful APIs, distributed applications, and cloud-based development tooling (Strictly Required).

Nice-to-Have Assets:
Prior DevOps or Cloud Engineering experience within a public sector or enterprise environment.

Experience with advanced observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics).

Relevant industry certifications such as Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert or Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to [email protected] to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.

This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.