Devsecops Engineer - Remote Eligible

Devsecops Engineer

Actalent is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer for a fully remote contract position based out of Ottawa. Project: Supporting an SaaS platform on AWS, the successful candidate will own deployments end-to-end, debug production issues under pressure, and support migration of big environments and data sets.

Duties:

• Kubernetes/EKS Operations: Manage, troubleshoot, and optimize workloads on EKS; handle Helm-based deployments.
• Postgres/Patroni Administration: Support and troubleshoot HA Postgres clusters (Patroni), including replication, failover, and performance tuning.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Build and maintain Terraform modules for AWS networking, compute, and storage (Transit Gateway, VPC endpoints, IAM, Security Groups).
• RBAC & IAM: Design and troubleshoot IAM policies, roles, and RBAC permissions across AWS and Kubernetes.
• Storage Troubleshooting: Debug and optimize EFS/EBS performance and availability issues.
• Automation & Scripting: Write automation in Python and Bash to improve reliability and streamline infrastructure operations.
• CI/CD & DevSecOps: Support GitLab CI/CD pipelines, integrate security scanning (SAST/DAST, Trivy, SonarQube), and enforce best practices.
• Data & Application Migration: Lead migration efforts for GitLab, Harbor artifacts, MinIO data, and SaaS applications.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with SRE, platform, and application engineers to unblock teams and stabilize environments.
• AI-Enhanced Engineering: Leverage AmazonQ or similar AI tools for faster troubleshooting and automation.

Requirements:

• DevOps
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• AWS
• Automation (Python, Bash)

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $60.00 - $68.00/hr.

Workplace Type

This is a fully remote position.