Job Description

Cloud specialist – PaaS

At the heart of this transformation is the Network Cloud Infrastructure and Services team. Our vision: Be recognized by tenants as the simplest, most reliable and adaptable cloud. Nothing less! We are on a mission to enable the Bell Network team to virtualize and cloudify network services and applications by providing self-serve, on-demand, reliable and secure cloud services, while supporting them on their journey.

We are a powerful mix of infrastructure, networking, security, storage, cloud computing, software development experts, supported by a crew of scrum masters and senior managers.

If you love…

• Community; ours is awesome. You will interact with developers in an Agile environment, work in an open space and participate in team building activities
• Building new systems; you will shape and construct a new digital web application and experience
• Connecting with people from other fields. You will bridge different business units and collaborate with many teams to make the best product
• DevOps; we are committed to our practices and tools: CI/CD, containerization, micro-services, Infra-As-Code
• Continuous improvement; our team is organized in product squads, leveraging the best of Lean manufacturing, Agile / Scrum framework to deliver in shorter cycles, adjust according to our tenants needs and continuously improve.

And you want to…

• Sharpen your development skills with the latest technologies, with access to vast resources and without limitations
• Embody and advocate a culture of quality code development
• Paint the path to services implementation through elegant architecture
• Contribute to an on-demand and self-serve organisation
• Openly expose problems and turn them into learning and team bonding experiences
• Put the interest of the team first

Key responsibilities:

• Implement and operate a PaaS based on Kubernetes on premise
• Technology exploration with focus on the cloud-native ecosystem evolution
• Create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog posts, sample code, and presentations adapted to technical teams
• Automate all manual tasks using Ansible/Terraform and similar tools
• Scan the industry to ensure technical sharpness and provide recommendation around technology evolution
• Find, deploy, enhance or build K8S based operator to support our customer by providing self-serve application deployment. (ex: Prometheus operator, MongoDB, etc.)

Minimum qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2-5 years of experience working in IT infrastructure, system administration or software development
• Real production experience with Kubernetes
• Familiar with Python, Bash and Ansible
• Knowledge of wide range of application required by software to operate and deploy in a K8S cluster (database, code tracing, logging, monitoring etc.)
• Knowledge of GitOps and Infra as code approaches
• Good understanding of IT technologies (cloud architecture, micro services, automation, programming) and practices (DevOps, CI/CD, OO, TDD).
• Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills,

Preferred qualifications:

• Linux or Kubernetes certification
• Operator framework knowledge
• Very familiar with GitOps and the Infra as code approaches
• K8s templating (helm, kustomize, jinja2)
• K8S CNI and CSI knowledge
• Basic network understanding (DNS, IPV6, NAT)
• Wireless core and RAN knowledge an asset
• Basic skill in OOP programing language
• Go programming language experience

Bilingualism is an asset (English and French); adequate knowledge of French is required for positions in Quebec.