Senior Systems Engineer

Employer
STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
Location
Hybrid, Vancouver
Job Year Level
Graduated Undergrad
Job Type
Full Time

Want to be on the edge of technology and align yourself with an innovative purpose-driven organization that supports life science research? This role leads the design, build and operation of mission-critical cloud-based systems and tools for STEMCELL’s staff & customers.

We are looking for a subject matter expert with cloud or infrastructure technologies, and will use your expertise to lead technology-powered change to empower our staff and customers. You live and breathe modern technology tools & practices, and have strong experience building secure, scalable & self-service solutions to enable your customers to meet their goals.

 

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Lead design, implementation, development & maintenance for cloud-based solutions and services supporting STEMCELL’s staff and customers

  • Embed into corporate technology and project teams as a technical expert to identify requirements, advise on design, and oversee development of new systems or applications

  • Lead creation of engineering best-practices and standards. Champion the discovery and adoption of new methods and technologies

  • Lead resolution of complex multi-system issues, including outages with substantial business impact

  • Take ownership for continuous improvement, identifying opportunities for automation and prevention future issues

  • Mentor and coach new and existing team members to elevate their technical skills

 

Knowledge and Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in a systems engineering or DevOps role including demonstrated experience building and running one or more large-scale web applications

  • ​AWS Professional or AWS DevOps Engineer Hashicorp Certified Terraform Associate Professional designation for any role-specific technology (i.e. Cisco)

  • Experience with leading the architecture and design of business solution, using AWS and Terraform

  • In-depth knowledge and experience building and operating cloud-based mission critical applications and services at an enterprise-scale

  • Proficient experience working with automation or infrastructure-as-code technologies (Terraform Cloud, Python, CloudFormation, CodePipeline, Build, Deploy, Github)

 

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