Job Description

About Blindside Networks
Blindside Networks is growing and needs a senior developer/operations engineer to help accelerate the growth.
For over 12 years Blindside Networks has been developing BigBlueButton, a virtual classroom system that provides remote students a high-quality online learning experience (https://bigbluebutton.org). Due to Covid-19, Blindside Networks experienced tremendous growth in its hosting infrastructure (a 60x increase in usage) for BigBlueButton.
Blindside Networks is looking to hire an experienced DevOps Developer to join our growing Ottawa based team on a permanent basis. Reporting to the Director of Products and Services, you will be responsible for developing internal operations tools and external customer-facing applications for our hosting business.
As a successful DevOps candidate you have a strong knowledge in development (60%) with experience in creating CI/CD pipelines for large-scale infrastructures (40%).
Key Responsibilities

• Extend, deploy, and maintain configuration management components necessary to operate and scale our infrastructure
• Maintain a full “staging” copy of our infrastructure for testing updates before deployment to production
• Assist developers on delivery and integration of new features into our infrastructure
• Develop tools for monitoring the health of our infrastructure
• Manage continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) infrastructure for the developer team
• Enhance and document processes for CI/CD
• Create devops solutions for on-premise deployment for products

Key Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience/training in computer science, engineering, software engineering, or related field
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification is highly desirable (or you can demonstrate equivalent)
• Minimum 3 years of previous experience in development and operations, or related IT, computer, or operations field - and the ability to demonstrate some of the DevOps skills you have learned
• A strong working knowledge of Ruby on Rails is required for this role.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience with software development, infrastructure development, or development and operations
• Experience with Linux infrastructures, database (Postgres), CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Ansible, etc.), scripting such as JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Bash
• Deep understanding of docker and Kubernetes, and other orchestration tools (Ansible, Terraform, etc.)
• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management
• Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team - you will be likely working remotely for the first months
• Fast learner and willing to take on new challenges.

As you can see from the above, we are looking for a senior person for our DevOps team (minimum of 3 years experience), but if you have slightly less experience in DevOps but can demonstrate a passion for learning, we are interested to talk with you as well.
Blindside Networks offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a dynamic, fast paced work-environment.
For more information of Blindside Network’s most recent impact of the online learning community, click the following link: https://obj.ca/article/open-source-software-built-ottawa-now-de-facto-standard-online-classrooms
Blindside Networks is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes diversity in the workplace and encourages applications from all qualified candidates. Blindside Networks welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.