About Brydon Gama
At Brydon Gama, we are a dynamic and growth-oriented professional solutions provider. Our success is built on a foundation of collaboration, accountability, and delivering exceptional value to our clients, enabling organizations to achieve operational excellence and strategic growth. As we continue to expand our technical delivery teams, we are seeking an entrepreneurial and results-driven Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our high-performing squad on a contract basis.
Role Overview
As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of critical infrastructure components and CI/CD pipelines for a key project in the media technology space. You will play a crucial part in containerizing and orchestrating microservices, leveraging multiple cloud providers, and ensuring the security, reliability, and scalability of high-impact platforms. This is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role (ICA3) that requires a blend of advanced technical expertise and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
Key Responsibilities
- CI/CD Leadership: Lead the design, development, and maintenance of robust pipelines for microservices using tools like Jenkins X, Maven, and advanced scripting.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Drive deployment using Terraform to ensure efficient, scalable, and secure architecture across GCP, Azure, and AWS.
- Container Orchestration: Provide expert-level support for software containerization with Docker and extensive use of Kubernetes and Docker Swarm.
- Cluster Management: Independently set up, manage, and optimize Kubernetes clusters and related tools like Rancher for production-ready orchestration.
- Security & Vulnerability: Lead vulnerability management efforts, performing scans and addressing findings in Docker images to ensure platform security.
- Escalation & Troubleshooting: Resolve complex performance, deployment, and data quality issues, serving as a primary point of escalation.
- Collaboration: Work extensively with product owners, data scientists, and engineers across the software delivery lifecycle, translating complex requirements into scalable code.
- Mentorship: Provide technical guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence.
Qualifications
- Experience: 5-7 years of progressive experience in infrastructure management, DevOps engineering, or related software development.
- Tooling: Strong proficiency with Jenkins X, Maven, Pulumi, and Terraform.
- Containerization: Deep expertise in Docker and advanced experience with Kubernetes (Rancher experience is a plus).
- Cloud Platforms: Proven hands-on experience with at least two major providers (GCP, Azure, AWS), including VMs, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, and CDNs.
- Scripting: Strong skills in Python, GoLang, or similar languages for automation.
- Databases: Experience with NoSQL (e.g., Couchbase) and/or relational databases (e.g., MySQL).
- Monitoring: Proficiency with New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, and Elastic Search.
- Soft Skills: High emotional intelligence, a low ego, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Highly Favourable Assets
- Experience with infrastructure security tools like SonarQube and artifact management (JFrog/Nexus).
- Familiarity with Agile Scrum and CI/CD methodologies.
- Prior experience in OTT platforms, media processing, or video engineering domains.
Contract Details
- Duration: 6-12 months (with strong potential for permanent conversion).
- Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week.
- Location: Hybrid (Toronto area required; 3 days onsite per week: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday).