Senior DevOPS/Cloud Engineer - Mobile Apps

Job Description

<p><p><b>Assignment: RQ10432 - DevOPS/Cloud Engineer - Senior</b> <b>Job Title: Senior DevOPS/Cloud Engineer - Mobile Apps</b> <b>Requisition (SS): RQ10432</b> <b>Start Date: 2026-04-01</b> <b>Client: Government Services Integration Cluster</b> <b>End Date: 2027-03-31</b> <b>Office Location: 222 Jarvis Street, Toronto</b> <b>Organization: Government Services Integration Cluster</b> <b>Ministry: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement</b> <b># Business Days: 252.00</b> <b>5 days onsite</b></p>
<h3>Overview</h3>
<p><b>Description</b></p>
<h3>Key Responsibilities</h3>
<ul>
<li>Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, Fastlane, BrowserStack, Codemagic etc., for mobile wallet and backend services, including signing, versioning, testing, and app store deployment workflows.</li>
<li>Support the publication and lifecycle management of wallet apps in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, overseeing release coordination, staged rollouts, and app health monitoring.</li>
<li>Design and deploy app attestation infrastructure using Apple App Attest and Google Play Integrity API to ensure wallet.</li>
<li>Architect, deploy, and manage Azure cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes (AKS/OpenShift) clusters/workloads, ensuring reliability, scalability, and secure multi environment operations.</li>
<li>Build and manage containerized workloads using Docker/Podman, infrastructure as code with Terraform/Ansible, and secure integrations with relational databases and event driven systems.</li>
<li>Implement DevSecOps practices including SAST/DAST scanning, secrets management, certificate rotation, vulnerability remediation, and compliance with identity trust frameworks (PCTF, NIST, eIDAS) and organization cybersecurity policies.</li>
<li>Conduct load testing, performance benchmarking, and continuous hardening of backend, wallet, and cloud components.</li>
<li>Implement observability and logging stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Log Analytics) and integrate crash analytics tools (Crashlytics, App Center) to drive stability and reliability improvements.</li>
<li>Collaborate with architects, developers, cybersecurity teams, and stakeholders to ensure cohesive delivery across wallet, agent, and platform components.</li>
<li>Produce documentation such as deployment architectures, runbooks, procedures, and operational playbooks while mentoring engineers in cloud, Kubernetes, and DevOps best practices.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Experience and Skill Set Requirements</h3>
<p><b>Mobile Wallet and Infrastructure Deployment 30%</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Implement automated delivery pipelines for digital credentials mobile wallet builds, ensuring consistent signing, versioning, and distribution through CI/CD processes.</li>
<li>Support publication and lifecycle management of mobile wallet applications in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, ensuring compliance with platform requirements, signing procedures, and release governance.</li>
<li>Collaborate with product managers, technical lead, mobile developers and testers to coordinate release readiness, testing cycles, staged rollouts, and monitoring of app health across stores.</li>
<li>Design and implement backend app attestation infrastructure enabling validation of mobile wallet integrity using Apple App Attest and Google Play Integrity API. Implement push notifications using tools such as Firebase.</li>
<li>Collaborate with mobile engineering teams to embed attestation logic into wallet apps, strengthen anti tampering controls, and enhance overall platform security posture.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>DevSecOps, CI/CD Automation & Engineering Quality 30%</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, Fastlane, BrowserStack, Codemagic, for both backend and wallet-related services, including automated testing, container builds, artifact management, and deployment approvals.</li>
<li>Implement load-testing and performance benchmarking using tools such as Locust or JMeter to validate system scalability under peak credential issuance and verification loads.</li>
<li>Enforce SDLC, code quality, and DevOps best practices-including code reviews, secure Integrate DevSecOps practices into all CI/CD workflows, embedding security scanning, SAST/DAST, secret detection, and container image scanning into pipelines.</li>
<li>Manage secure configuration of infrastructure including TLS certificate rotation, secret management, encryption policies, network segmentation, and hardened OS baselines.</li>
<li>Work with teams to implement identity and access management, privileged access controls, threat modeling, and continuous compliance monitoring.</li>
<li>Conduct regular infrastructure hardening, patching, library updates, dependency audits, and vulnerability remediation cycles for wallet, agent, and backend components.</li>
<li>Experience with scripting languages like Python and Bash</li>
<li>Ensure alignment with digital identity trust frameworks (PCTF, NIST, eIDAS) and enterprise cybersecurity policies.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Cloud Architecture, Platform Engineering & Infrastructure-as-Code 25%</h3>
<ul>
<li>An expert in architecting, building, and maintaining Azure cloud infrastructure that supports the digital credential platform, ensuring high availability, resilience, and secure multi environment deployments.</li>
<li>Build and manage containerized workloads using Docker/Podman, applying secure image management, registry automation, and runtime hardening.</li>
<li>Design and operate Kubernetes production clusters (AKS/OpenShift), including workload orchestration, scaling policies, RBAC, network rules, and automated failover.</li>
<li>Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible, and related tooling to ensure consistent, auditable, and automated environment provisioning.</li>
<li>Support backend components interacting with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) through secure connections and optimized queries.</li>
<li>Operate and integrate event driven architectures, caching mechanism, job schedulers and asynchronous messaging systems.</li>
<li>In-depth knowledge of Azure networking, VNETs, ingress controllers, firewalls, and identity integrations to support secure and compliant services.</li>
<li>Proven experience designing modern architectural patterns to support delivery of complex IT solutions that are reliable, secure, responsive and scalable.</li>
<li>Experience applying industry cloud and security standards and best practices to your work that can be adopted by others.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Observability, Monitoring & System Insights 10%</h3>
<ul>
<li>Implement and maintain observability stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Log Analytics, or equivalent tools, ensuring end to end visibility across services.</li>
<li>Integrate crash analytics tools (e.g., Firebase Crashlytics, App Center) into the DevOps workflow to monitor wallet stability, identify crash trends, and support continuous reliability improvements.</li>
<li>Define dashboards, alerting rules, incident playbooks, SLIs/SLOs, and health checks to support high availability identity workloads.</li>
<li>Conduct root cause analysis and drive long term reliability improvements across cloud, container, and wallet infrastructure components.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Collaboration, Documentation & Agile Delivery 5%</h3>
<ul>
<li>Work closely with architects, wallet/mobile developers, automation engineers, cybersecurity teams, and enterprise stakeholders to ensure cohesive solution delivery.</li>
<li>Produce and maintain documentation including diagrams, deployment architectures, operational runbooks, method of procedures, and troubleshooting playbooks.</li>
<li>Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to planning, release coordination, and cross team technical alignment.</li>
<li>Mentor team members in cloud engineering, DevOps automation, Kubernetes operations, and secure deployment practices.</li>
</ul></p>
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