Cloud SRE

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Summary:

Cloud Hosting Services delivers products as fully-managed cloud services. The team works across the company, and with multiple cloud partners, to make using Smile Digital Health products simple for our customers. As part of the hosting operations team, the Cloud SRE will support the building, operating and automating of infrastructure services to deliver SaaS-based solutions on Azure/AWS. This role creates a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration topics. The incumbent will divide their time between operations/on-call duties and administering systems and software which help increase site reliability and performance. Approximately 50% deploying the work and infrastructure, 20% of the time for this role will look after patching for customers, 10% for documenting processes for customers, 10% customer facing, 10% developing customer solutions.

Primary Functions

• Collaborate with our Security Operations teams to help define and implement best practices around Cloud Service Provider configuration for AWS, Azure and other cloud providers.
• Develop, implement and coordinate a multi-tenant approach around service offerings for DB, Container platform, Authentication, Certificates, and Product Registries etc.
• Develop and maintain cost/utilization tracking and attribution processes for all Cloud Service Providers.
• Create documentation around Cloud Service Provider offerings detailing use cases, best practices, and implementation details.
• Develop and maintain technical relationships with our core Cloud Service Providers.
• Implement and maintain a secure and scalable infrastructure platform for delivering Cloud Services applications.
• Ensure that internal and external SLA’s meet and exceed expectations, and ensure that system centric KPIs are continuously monitored and improved.
• Create tools for automating deployment, monitoring and operations of the overall platform.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide application support, incident management, and troubleshooting.
• Provide ongoing maintenance and support of internal tools, improve system health and reliability.
• Assist customers with the On-premise deployments when needed.
•  Ongoing compliance with organizational policies, procedures and practices (such as but not limited to security policies) are an ongoing requirement of the employment or contractual agreement. 
• Comply with the privacy, security and confidentiality policies. 

Prerequisites

• Demonstrated expertise of cloud service providers and best practices around implementation and configuration, preferably managing Azure on behalf of multiple teams for a company that delivers SaaS products.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Openshift, Kafka, Elastic stack. 
• Proven experience with Security and Compliance (SOC2, HIPAA, ISO27001) best practices and how to implement controls that support high-velocity software delivery teams.
• Proficiency in Terraform, Ansible or Chef.
• Expertise in troubleshooting support escalation, on-Call process optimization and documenting knowledge.
• Passionate about Infrastructure as code, automation, and developing solutions that help developers move quickly and safely.
• Familiarity with infrastructure management and operations lifecycle concepts and ecosystem.
• Experience operating and maintaining production systems in a Linux and public cloud environment.
• You have prior experience working in high performance or distributed systems; while we strive to hire at a variety of experience levels.
• Working knowledge of industry best practices with regard to information security
• Previous experience building or maintaining a large scale Cloud service.
• Proven ability to prioritize and track multiple projects in parallel.
• Proven ability to be highly responsive and customer-focused. 

Some of the benefits we offer:

* Remote Work Environment

* Flexible Time Away From Work Policy including PTO, Personal and Sick Days

* Competitive Salary and Health/Medical Benefits

* RRSP/TFSA/401K Employee Contribution

* Life and Disability

* Employee Assistance Program

* FHIR Study Program and Skillsoft Learning

* Super HAPI Fun Club

Smile's core values include respect, inclusion, embracing our differences, and celebrating shared values because our people are the foundation of our success. We are big on creating a sense of belonging and empowering each other to bring our authentic selves to work. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that values diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We welcome and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. Candidates are encouraged to inform us if they wish to discuss or require accommodations during interviews or while working at Smile.