Platform Engineering

Job Responsibility:

Position Type:

Permanent

If you're looking for a fulfilling career that can make a real difference in your life, and the lives of others, you've come to the right place.

As a national health solutions partner, we put people first in everything we do — and that begins with our team of 8,000+ professionals who bring a cross-section of diverse life experiences and career expertise to Medavie. By collaborating and innovating together, our employees are creating industry-leading solutions in insurance, primary care and emergency medical services that impact millions of lives in Canada each year.

Our mission is to improve the wellbeing of Canadians so that every life can be lived to the fullest — and it's reflected in our award-winning culture. We celebrate individuality and value the diverse perspectives and skills our employees contribute. We go beyond providing competitive pay and comprehensive benefits to offer opportunities for personal and professional growth, flexible work options, meaningful experiences, and supportive leadership. Medavie is where employees can be their best selves, feel they belong, and achieve their full potential. Be part of it by applying for a position with us today.

As a Platform Engineering team member, you will be responsible for being a practitioner for the platforms in place across Medavie. This role will ensure that all best practices are encouraged, adopted, and applied to the Medavie infrastructure and development projects of all types. This will be achieved by learning, adapting, and encouraging new processes and technologies throughout Medavie IT.

At Medavie, a Platform Engineering team member will also be responsible for learning and supporting the shift towards DevOps practices including the automation and implementation of routine maintenance tasks of our physical and virtual environment, support and troubleshooting issues on our server infrastructure, operational and project-specific solutions for internal objectives, and other routine and emergency tasks.

This role will also ensure continuous support of implemented technologies including, and not limited to, on-call rotations, patching, after-hours implementation, and application development team support. This role shares focus between 1) load balancing, WebSphere Application Server support, and legacy platform solutions and 2) containerization and automation. The successful candidate will have experience in software development (preferably in Java or JavaScript), the development or implementation of DevOps pipelines, specifically in the deployment of applications, and with containerization solutions such as Docker Swarm and Kubernetes.

A very important nice to have for this position is knowledge within cloud infrastructure (Azure and AWS) and new containerization solutions such as OpenShift or Tanzu.

Key Responsibilities

• Supports the design, development, and documentation, of the deployment management policy, process, and some procedures
• Supports the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release deployment packages, including assessment of risk and audit compliance
• Contributes to the availability management process and its operation. Performs defined availability management tasks
• Ensures that services and components meet and continue to meet all their agreed performance targets and service levels
• Work with Unix, Windows, Platform Engineering, Network, Database, and other infrastructure teams to implement end-to-end solutions
• Ensure monitoring and self healing strategies are implemented and maintained to proactively prevent client disruptions
• Leverage and implement virtualization and infrastructure for repeatable delivery and highly available client solutions
• Respond to service requests, interact with internal teams, provide technical support, and provision the necessary server infrastructure services and components for various projects

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

Education: University degree or college diploma.

Experience

• Minimum 4+ years in a platform engineering, DevOps engineering, or software engineering role.
• 3+ years of software development experience (preferably in Python or Java).
• 2+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines and solutions (preferably GitLab, Sonarqube, and/or Nexus).
• 2+ years of experience with containerization (Docker Swarm and Kubernetes; preferably with VMware Tanzu).
• 3+ years of experience with Linux operations.

Security Clearance Requirement: In conjunction with our contract with the Federal Government, you will be required to have Reliability Status Clearance (Enhanced Level B). This includes Fingerprinting, Criminal Record Check, Credit Check and you must have resided in Canada for at least 5 years and hold Permanent Resident or Citizenship Status.

What's in it for you?

What makes us a different kind of employer? Our award-winning culture, a team who really cares, unmatched training and support are all dedicated to ensuring you