Assignment: RQ00217 - Cloud Application Specialist - Senior

Requisition: RQ00217

Job Title: Cloud Application Specialist - Senior

Client: Metrolinx

Start Date: 2026-09-01

End Date: 2027-02-28

Department: Infrastructure & Disaster Recovery

Office Location: John and Front St, Toronto

Business Days: 129.00

Location: up to 3 days in office, 2 days remote (at the HMs discretion)

Public Sector Experience: not necessary

Must Haves:

- 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.

Description

Position Summary

- We are seeking an experienced contractor to migrate existing GitHub-based automation workflows to HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) and integrate HCP with Ansible. The goal is to establish a unified automation platform for infrastructure deployment and Day 2 operations, and complete our integration with ServiceNow for one-click service requests and operational automation.

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

- Strong hands-on experience with HCP and Terraform.
- Advanced experience with Ansible, including playbooks, roles, inventories, and automation workflows.
- Robust 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, IntegrationHub, Flow Designer, webhooks, and service catalog workflows.
- Experience implementing automated governance, audit trails, and approval processes.

📌 Cloud Application Specialist - Senior (Toronto)
🏢 Cleo Consulting
📍 Toronto