Job Title: Cloud Application Specialist - Senior
Location: Toronto or Kingston
Work Model: Onsite
Security Clearance: CRJMC
Submission Deadline: 2026-07-13, 12:00 p.m.

Description / Responsibilities / Skills

Must Have

- Minimum 8–10+ years of hands-on experience in cloud application development and engineering,
- Demonstrated recent expertise in Microsoft Azure (App Services, Azure Functions, AKS), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift), and DevOps/automation tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines), including building and integrating scalable, cloud-native enterprise solutions.
- Demonstrated experience in enterprise cloud architecture, security (IAM, encryption, compliance), data engineering (ETL/ELT, Azure data services), observability (monitoring/logging), and advanced DevOps/DevSecOps practices, including API-driven integration, CI/CD pipeline design, and scalable, high-availability solution delivery
- Experience with writing code to interact with RESTful APIs to replace manual processes such as assigning IP addresses and DNS codes.
- Demonstrated experience designing, developing and implementing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with integrated security (DevSecOps)

Description

- Primary Care Attachment Repository (PCAR): A centralized digital solution designed to capture and maintain the attachment status of all OHIP-eligible Ontarians.
- PCAR will enable improved system-level planning and facilitate better access to primary care services.
- This initiative is part of the Primary Care Action Plan, supporting the government's goal of ensuring that every Ontarian is connected to primary care.

Responsibilities:

- Create applications that are served on the cloud
- Create the software platform to run on virtual systems
- Fine-tune the final program after it has been created
- Facilitate IT development, design, construction, testing, promotion, implementation of web-based/n-tier, cloud-based and mainframe applications for workstreams.
- Responsible for development utilizing a combination of cloud technologies to develop an integrated solution for online transactional processing and integration
- Responsible for in integration of any Open Source Software (OSS) products into new and existing systems
- Creation and walk-through of Systems Response documents, Technical Specifications, Application Inventory, and Implementation Plans.
- Preparation of test plans, test data, and unit-testing of programs.
- Preparation of implementation plans and promotion of programs.
- System Support/Documentation
- As assigned, response to client queries and troubleshooting of production incidents.




- Conduct/participate in design walkthroughs as well as test case and test results walkthroughs.
- Support testing of the changes by other team members.
- Weekly reporting on status, progress, and key issue/concerns as directed by the Project Lead/Project Manager or Portfolio Manager.
- Transfer skills and knowledge to selected OPS staff

General Skills:

- Experience creating applications that are served on the cloud
- Experience creating the software platform to run on virtual systems
- Experience fine-tuning the final program after it has been made
- Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle from business systems analysis through requirements gathering and functional specification
- Ability to troubleshoot code and make system changes as needed to resolve issues
- Experience modify existing software to correct errors to adapt it to current hardware or to upgrade interfaces and improve performance
- Experience consulting with engineering staff to evaluate interface between hardware and software
- Experience developing specifications and performance requirements and resolving customer problems
- Must know at least one programming language and should be proficient in that
- Be familiar with software development concepts and databases
- Fluency with Hypervisor and Virtualization techniques
- Have at least fundamental knowledge of cloud computing and basic Networking skills
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team
- A team player with proven track record for meeting deadlines

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Role: DevOPS/Cloud Engineer Level: Senior

Price - 30%

Core Skills and Experience - 40%

- Experience with solution design/implementation in a cloud-based environment – including:
- Minimum 8–10+ years of hands-on experience in cloud application development and engineering,
- Demonstrated recent expertise in Microsoft Azure (App Services, Azure Functions, AKS), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift), and DevOps/automation tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines), including building and integrating scalable, cloud-native enterprise solutions.
- Demonstrated experience in enterprise cloud architecture, security (IAM, encryption, compliance), data engineering (ETL/ELT, Azure data services), observability (monitoring/logging), and advanced DevOps/DevSecOps practices, including API-driven integration,



CI/CD pipeline design, and scalable, high-availability solution delivery
- Scripting languages such as python to automate repeatable processes
- Experience with automation for infrastructure provisioning using Ansible, Jenkins
- Experience with network automation processes such as assigning IP addresses and DNS codes
- Experience with continuous monitoring to monitor system and application performance and alert on downtimes, errors and similar events
- Experience with continuous monitoring to monitor system and application performance and alert on downtimes, errors and similar events
- Fundamentals of Docker containers and containers orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, OpenShift
- Experience with running containerized applications in enterprise environment
- Experience in VMware-based virtualization and in using cloud services such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, is a plus

Technical & Engineering Skills - 30%

- Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach
- Experience with writing code to interact with RESTful APIs to replace manual processes such as assigning IP addresses and DNS codes
- Fluency in git-based source code management and version control systems – Git, GitHub, GitLab etc.
- Demonstrated experience designing, developing and implementing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with integrated security (DevSecOps)

General Skills - 25%

- Experience creating applications that are served on the cloud
- Experience creating the software platform to run on virtual systems
- Experience fine-tuning the final program after it has been made
- Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle from business systems analysis through requirements gathering and functional specification
- Ability to troubleshoot code and make system changes as needed to resolve issues
- Experience modify existing software to correct errors to adapt it to new hardware or to upgrade interfaces and improve performance
- Experience consulting with engineering staff to evaluate interface between hardware and software
- Experience developing specifications and performance requirements and resolving customer problems
- Must know at least one programming language and should be proficient in that
- Be familiar with software development concepts and databases
- Fluency with Hypervisor and Virtualization techniques
- Have at least fundamental knowledge of cloud computing and basic Networking skills
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team
- A team player with proven track record for meeting deadlines

Public Sector Experience - 5%

- Public sector experience working on mainframe/legacy system

📌 Cloud Application Specialist - Senior (Toronto)
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📍 Toronto