DevOps Engineer

Universal Music Canada is Canada’s leading music company, engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content. Home to the most comprehensive catalogue of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMC is committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship in broadening opportunities for our artists on both the domestic and world stages as well as creating new experiences for fans.

Universal Music Canada is part of Universal Music Group, the world leader in music-based entertainment.

We are searching for creative, innovative, and passionate people to fill a current vacancy on our team. If you love music and are excited about joining this amazing organization, we would love to meet you!

DevOps Engineer

This is a remote position in Canada

At Virgin Music Group, we are committed to powering creativity in today’s dynamic music marketplace by providing the best distribution, marketing, and rights management tools and services to content creators and owners. We develop state-of-the-art, cost-efficient, and scalable technology platforms. Our partners benefit from our experienced, knowledgeable people, unparalleled commitment to customer service, and thoughtful marketing solutions that drive results. We aspire to be the most transparent and solution-driven partner for all of the labels and artists we work with.

The DevOps Engineer will work collaboratively with infrastructure, development, and operation teams. They will help automate and streamline CI/CD processes and toolsets for high availability, security, scalable enterprise, and software as a service applications within the AWS environment. As a member of the team, you will drive the design, implementation, testing, deployment, and post-release production support.

How you'll CREATE:

• Support and manage production Kubernetes clusters
• Analyze, design, and implement strategies for continuous deployment of enterprise and software as a service application while ensuring security and high availability on pre-production and production systems
• Oversee the coordination, integration, and flow of development, testing, and deployment to support continuous delivery
• Provide an extremely reliable and secure enterprise environment that is fully automated and free from obstacles
• Assist team with SOX, quarterly security audits and root cause analysis
• Operate effectively across development platforms, tools, networks, servers, and databases, in multi-cloud scenarios
• Assist Developer teams in migrating from legacy pipelines to GitOps workflow

Bring your VIBE:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar field
• 5+ years of experience with cloud technologies (AWS and GCP)
• Experience with cloud based Kubernetes (EKS/GKE or similar)
• Strong practical Windows-based systems administration skills in an AWS and GCP environment
• Strong experience with a scripting language (Bash/Python or similar)
• Experience establishing and employing CI/CD practices and tools (GitlabCI/ArgoCD/TeamCity/Octopus/JFrog or similar)
• Experience with automation and configuration management using a variety of tools (Ansible/Terraform/Packer or similar)
• Experience and ability to setup automated monitoring and alerting systems (Prometheus/Grafana/Jaeger/Datadog or similar)
• Improve platform security, backups, disaster recovery and compliance-readiness
• Maintain and implement best practices for Postgres/MySQL/DocumentDB etc.
• Understanding of DevOps principals and a record of implementing and communicating principals across cross-disciplinary teams
• Develop and implement cost optimization strategies using cloud native tools. (KubeCost/OpenCost or similar)
• Contribute to a culture of ownership, reliability and an overall engineering mindset
• Passion for automation of everything to release fast, frequently, and reliably
• Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn new concepts and technologies

What We Offer

• Competitive Compensation

Package includes, benefits,

Pension Plan, Savings plan with company matching

• 2-week paid Winter

Break

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Mental Health Support
• Wellness Program

Universal Music Canada is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion, and strongly welcomes and encourages applications from Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, women, persons with disabilities, people who are 2SLGBTQIA+, and people from other diverse communities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Job Category:

Technology

Salary Range:

$90,000 - $130,000

The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they w