Jobs / Smile Digital Health
Cloud Engineer, Automation (Remote Ontario)
Smile Digital Health · Toronto, ON, Canada · Remote
Toronto, ON, CanadaExp: 6+ yrs120,000-140,000 CAD/yearlyRemote
Remuneration
Competitive salary and health and medical benefits; RRSP, TFSA, or 401(k) employee contribution; life and disability coverage; employee assistance program
Location
Toronto, ON, Canada · Remote
Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Designs, builds, and operates production-grade automation for a FHIR-based healthcare data platform, covering CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, environment provisioning, and recovery. The role consolidates Azure DevOps pipelines, implements GitOps delivery, and automates disaster recovery while maintaining Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes infrastructure. It also improves platform operations through AI-assisted engineering, Kafka management, and observability across Azure services.
Benefits
Remote work environmentFlexible time away policy, including paid time off, personal days, and sick daysCompetitive salary and health and medical benefitsRRSP, TFSA, or 401(k) employee contributionLife and disability coverageEmployee assistance programFHIR study program and Skillsoft learningSuper HAPI Fun Club
Qualifications
- At least 6 years of hands-on cloud, DevOps, or platform engineering experience, including 1–2 or more years of production infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD automation on Azure.
- Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar field, or equivalent work experience.
- Practical expertise in Terraform, Helm, Azure DevOps pipelines, and GitOps delivery using Argo CD or Flux.
- Strong Terraform skills, including module design, provider version management, state management, and refactoring.
- Recent experience authoring and refactoring Helm charts and working with Kubernetes and AKS.
- Knowledge of Azure services including AKS, Key Vault, Storage, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, networking, and identity.
- Experience with observability as code using Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
- Hands-on experience automating backup, restore, and failover with measured RTO and RPO.
- Experience using agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, protecting confidential data, and reviewing generated output.
- Experience running, hardening, and right-sizing production Kubernetes workloads.
- Hands-on Kafka operations, including topic and partition design, consumer group sizing, and throughput and latency trade-offs.
- Strong Python and Bash skills for building maintainable tooling.
- FinOps practice and Azure Cost Management experience are assets.
- Experience in regulated environments such as healthcare or handling protected health information is an asset.
- Kafka platform migration experience is an asset.
Responsibilities
- Consolidate Azure DevOps pipelines into reusable templates with change detection and automated quality gates.
- Replace manual cross-functional tasks with scheduled, auditable automation.
- Implement GitOps continuous delivery with automated reconciliation, drift detection, and rollback.
- Automate on-demand provisioning and teardown of line-of-business environments across Azure services and applications.
- Automate backup validation, restoration, failover, and recurring disaster recovery drills; measure RTO and RPO.
- Maintain and improve Terraform configuration, reusable modules, Helm charts, and upgrade boundaries.
- Operate and harden Helm-deployed Kubernetes services for availability and capacity.
- Build and maintain build agent images and their available tooling.
- Implement policy-as-code, security and infrastructure-as-code scanning, and alerts and dashboards defined as code.
- Apply AI-assisted engineering and contribute reusable knowledge, skills, and runbooks.
- Identify and prioritize automation gaps with development and operations teams.
- Troubleshoot production and staging issues and document automated processes.
Skills
AKSArgo CDAzureAzure DevOpsAzure Key VaultAzure MonitorBashFluxGitGrafanaHelmKafkaKubernetesAmazon MSKOpenTelemetryPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonTerraformVaultAzure Blob StorageGitHubIAM
Certifications
HashiCorp Terraform AssociateMicrosoft AZ-104Microsoft AZ-400Microsoft AZ-305Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Degrees
Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar field; e
Work schedule
Flexible time away policy including paid time off, personal days, and sick days
Industry
HealthcareHealth data
Relocation
No