About JobGet
JobGet is the Social Job Network for the Everyday Worker. We’re the fastest-growing app for job seekers in the service industries. JobGet serves a massive and underserved population that traditionally has not been supported in growing their careers and financial well-being.
We help people get jobs and want to make that process as frictionless and straightforward for as many people as possible. We’re concentrated on providing the best experience, from job searching to community resources, financial support, and more.
Our mission is to help the Everyday Workforce thrive, and we look forward to you joining us in building a social job network.
Learn more about our culture here
Who We Are
We’ve designed our values to be more than just buzzwords; they’re things we can do. We hope that our culture reflects our values by our commitment to living them every day.
Make a difference every day
- Teamwork - We make time to help colleagues across JobGet succeed.
- Excellence - We set ambitious targets, put in extraordinary effort, and persevere until we have accomplished — or exceeded — our goals.
- Innovation - We’re a team of creative, outside-the-box thinkers who thrive in a continuously evolving environment. To us, innovation is about questioning the status quo and always striving to do things better.
Have Unwavering grit
- Resilience - By remaining resilient and adaptable, we grow stronger as individuals and as an organization.
- Accountability - We operate with an ownership mentality where everyone feels a sense of responsibility to make us better and always act in the best interest of JobGet.
- Speed - We make decisions fast and execute them even faster. Bias for speed is one of our core strengths and a key advantage over our competitors.
Grow through curiosity & kindness
- Respect - We treat each other with mutual respect, kindness, and celebrate our differences.
- Learning - We ask questions and seek to understand by being genuinely curious & communicative.
- Culture - We believe that each of us is responsible for our culture. It requires self-discipline and the drive to contribute to something greater than ourselves.
What You’ll Do
As a Contract DevOps Engineer, you will be a key contributor in the development of our cloud infrastructure, release pipelines, scalability, availability, and security. This contract position will require 10 hours of engineering work a week - the hours will fluctuate each week with the opportunity to potentially work more hours and there may be some weeks where there will be no hours. The hourly rate range for this contract position is $70 - $100 CAD per hour. The contract will start as a 3-month contract with the potential to be extended.
We are looking for someone who enjoys architecting systems and developing in an agile environment. You thrive in building scalable, flexible systems with an emphasis on improving maintainability. As a contractor, you will have a flexible work schedule to work closely with the rest of the engineering team and independently.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the development, testing, and deployment of applications.
- Collaborate with software engineers to optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP).
- Implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Kubernetes clusters and workloads.
- Automate EKS operations using tools like Helm, kubectl, and AWS CLI
- Monitor system performance, security, and availability, and implement proactive measures to ensure optimal operation.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, test, and production environments.
- Implement and maintain robust logging, monitoring, and alerting systems.
- Ensure security best practices are followed across all infrastructure and deployment processes.
Who You Are
- You have 5+ years of experience in a DevOps role, with a strong understanding of DevOps principles and practices.
- You have extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- You have experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
- You have experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- You have familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
- You have the ambition and perseverance to take on any uncertainty and challenges that arise.
- You have experience working in a collaborative environment.
- You are comfortable working autonomously and have the ability to effectively manage tasks and responsibilities with minimal supervision, showing strong self-motivation.
- You want to make a difference. You constantly push yourself to be your best. You focus on solutions and arrive every day inspired to make an impact through your talents, creativity, and curiosity.
Benefits & Rewards
- Purpose-driven organization
- Remote-first
- Flexible work hours - our employees are in multiple time zones
- Awarded “2022 Best Place to Work” by INC. Magazine for exemplary manager effectiveness, perks, employee growth, and overall company culture