Senior DevOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Welcome to TELUS Digital — where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.

🏢 About TELUS Digital

With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, Africa, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across various service offerings: Web, Mobile & Digital Marketing | Enterprise AI | Customer Care AI & Technology | Enterprise Technology Modernization. From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are — all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company.

🎯 The Role

The primary execution lead for platform engagements. You own features and work streams from design to production. You are a trusted hands-on expert capable of building secure platforms, automating complex workflows, and executing critical migration tasks.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement secure, scalable cloud landing zones, ensuring adherence to best practices for networking and identity management.
• Lead technical execution for migration or modernization streams, handling complex cutovers, rollback planning, and data integrity validation.
• Design and implement observability solutions, defining Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and actionable alerting policies to reduce operational noise.
• Refactor legacy deployment processes into modern, automated CI/CD pipelines that support complex branching and release strategies.
• Implement "Shift Left" security practices by integrating automated vulnerability scanning and policy enforcement into the delivery lifecycle.
• Administer and optimize Kubernetes clusters, configuring advanced networking, ingress controllers, and autoscaling policies.
• Mentor junior consultants by reviewing their code, providing architectural guidance, and enforcing practice-wide engineering standards.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks using advanced scripting or custom CLI tools to eliminate toil.
• Collaborate with client engineering teams to resolve critical technical blockers and drive adoption of cloud-native patterns.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5–7 years of engineering experience, with at least 3 years focused on Cloud, DevOps, or SRE.
• Deep administration skills in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) or comparable container orchestration platforms.
• Proficiency in Python or Go for writing robust automation scripts and tooling.
• Strong understanding of hybrid connectivity architectures, including VPNs, Interconnects, and DNS resolution.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining production-grade Infrastructure-as-Code environments (Terraform).
• Certifications: Google Cloud: Professional Cloud Architect, Industry: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

🎁 Benefits

Salary range: CA$96K – CA$120K with a 10% annual bonus.