Russell Tobin & Associates is hiring on behalf of one of its esteemed clients.

Job ID: 26-23237
Job Title: Cloud Application Specialist
Location: John and Front Street , Toronto, ON, Toronto, ON (3 days in office Hybrid)
Duration: 6 Months (With Possible Extension)
Client: Public Sector
Pay Rate: CAD $80-$85 per hour

Must Have:

- 5+ years - Strong hands-on experience with HCP and Terraform.
- 5+ years - Advanced experience with Ansible, including playbooks, roles, inventories, and automation workflows.
- 5+ years - experience managing GitHub repositories and enterprise source-control practices.
- 5+ years - Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, API integration, secrets management, and enterprise security controls.

Key Responsibilities

- Assess existing GitHub repositories, GitHub Actions workflows, and automation pipelines.
- Develop and execute the migration strategy from GitHub-based automation to HCP.
- Design and implement HCP and Ansible integrations for infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and Day 2 operations.
- Maintain GitHub repositories, including branching strategies, pull requests, access controls, reusable workflows, and version management.
- Build and optimize GitHub Actions workflows for testing, validation, security scanning, and automation.
- Develop reusable Terraform and Ansible modules, playbooks, templates, and workflows.
- Implement security, governance, approval, and audit requirements across the automation platform.
- Support testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and production readiness.
- Provide knowledge transfer and operational handover to internal teams.
- Optionally, integrate ServiceNow with HCP and Ansible to enable approved one-click deployments and Day 2 operational requests.

Required Skills and Experience

- Robust hands-on experience with HCP and Terraform.
- Advanced experience with Ansible, including playbooks, roles, inventories, and automation workflows.
- Strong experience managing GitHub repositories and enterprise source-control practices.




- Hands-on experience developing and supporting GitHub Actions workflows.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, API integration, secrets management, and enterprise security controls.
- Experience designing automation for infrastructure deployments and Day 2 operations.
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and knowledge-transfer skills.
- Experience working in enterprise cloud environments; Microsoft Azure experience is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience integrating ServiceNow with HCP, Ansible, GitHub Actions, or other automation platforms.
- Experience enabling ServiceNow catalog requests for one-click deployments, approvals, status updates, and Day 2 operations.
- Familiarity with ServiceNow APIs, Integration Hub, Flow Designer, webhooks, and service catalog workflows.
- Experience implementing automated governance, audit trails, and approval processes

If this opportunity matches your experience and career goals, please share your most updated resume for consideration.

As a certified minority-owned business, Pride Global and its affiliates - including Russell Tobin, Pride Health, and Pride Now - are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.

Russell Tobin is a leading minority-owned professional and technical recruitment and staffing advisory organization. We are comprised of specialized practices focusing on a variety of skill sets and industries. Having a depth and breadth of industry expertise, our subject matter experts are able to provide tailored and swift sourcing solutions to fulfill client hiring needs. In other words, we connect top talent with companies. We are the staffing arm of the Pride Global network, a minority-owned integrated human capital solutions firm, with additional offerings in vendor management, payroll programs, and business process optimization.

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📌 Cloud Application Specialist (26-23237) (Toronto)
🏢 Russell Tobin
📍 Toronto