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Sr Analyst, IT- DevOps Lead
Aspire Bakeries · Brantford, ON, Canada
Brantford, ON, CanadaExp: 3-5 yrs100,000-170,000 CAD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage; company-paid life insurance; paid parental leave, paid time off, and holidays; retirement plans; short- and long-term disability coverage; HSA and FSA plans; performance incentives; learning and development programs.
Location
Brantford, ON, Canada
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Senior IT DevOps Lead administers and improves Microsoft Azure infrastructure and its integration with on-premises systems, supporting secure, reliable, and cost-effective hybrid workloads. The role builds repeatable infrastructure-as-code workflows with Terraform and Azure DevOps, and oversees identity, security, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and infrastructure optimization. The position is based at a bakery in Brantford, Ontario, and requires onsite work four days per week.
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision coverageCompany-paid life insurancePaid parental leavePaid time off and holidaysRetirement plansShort- and long-term disability coverageHSA and FSA plansPerformance incentive plansLearning and development programs
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
- Three to five years of relevant experience administering server, storage, identity, and enterprise application systems, including hands-on Azure experience
- Knowledge of Azure IaaS and PaaS services, including Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, NSGs, Azure Firewall, Storage Accounts, Key Vault, Recovery Services Vault, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics
- Hands-on Terraform experience with Azure, including modules, remote state, workspaces, and pipeline-driven plan, apply, and destroy workflows using Azure DevOps or a comparable CI/CD platform
- Knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Group Policy, Azure RBAC, Conditional Access, and MFA
- Experience with server virtualization and hybrid connectivity, including VMware or Hyper-V and site-to-site VPN, SD-WAN, or ExpressRoute
- Knowledge of PowerShell automation, enterprise backup and recovery, infrastructure monitoring, and ITIL-aligned practices
Responsibilities
- Operate and optimize Azure compute, storage, networking, monitoring, backup, and platform services
- Build and maintain Terraform infrastructure-as-code automation and Azure DevOps pipelines
- Design and support Azure hybrid solutions integrated with on-premises infrastructure, virtualization, networking, security, and identity services
- Maintain cloud identity, access, security, hardening, vulnerability management, logging, and monitoring
- Deliver and validate backup, recovery, business continuity, and disaster recovery capabilities
- Improve infrastructure reliability, performance, and cost through upgrades, patching, right-sizing, optimization, and root-cause analysis
- Maintain infrastructure standards, documentation, diagrams, Terraform modules, runbooks, naming conventions, and tagging standards
Skills
AnsibleAzureAzure DevOpsAzure FilesAzure Key VaultAzure MonitorBashGraylogPowerShellPythonTerraformVaultVMwareIAMWireGuard
Certifications
Microsoft Azure, VMware, Cisco, GIAC, CISSP, or comparable cloud and infrastruct
Degrees
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related disc
Languages
PowerShellBashPython
Industry
Food manufacturingBakeries
Relocation
No