Cloud Engineer

About Thentia 

Thentia is a fast-growing, venture capital-backed software as a service (SaaS) company that is emerging as a world leader in government technology with a platform that is transforming and modernizing how regulatory organizations are conducting business. A company of builders, thinkers, and owners, Thentia gives employees the opportunity to create amazing solutions, showcase their talents, and benefit from our shared success as we scale up in the U.S., Canadian, and global markets. Further, Thentia’s solutions directly impact public trust and regulatory integrity, helping regulators and agencies meet 21st century standards by leveraging predictive analytics, Big Data, AI, and other innovative capabilities. Internally, our culture fosters collaboration, inclusivity, intellectual curiosity, and professional development.   

About This Role: 

You will help architect, deploy, and operate Thentia’s cloud application and services infrastructure that aligns with business needs and enables secure and steady expansion as our employee population and customer base grows. You will be responsible for supporting operational innovation and providing support to the business to assure the company’s product’s delivery within a cloud computing infrastructure. You will assist with the delivery of applications at scale, securely, and with resiliency to support business initiatives. You should be adept at dealing with disparate applications and data systems to maintain the level of rigour required to adhere to business direction. Along with the depth of system coverage, the role requires planning and designing policies and maintenance, adherence to governance expectations, and managing and maintaining tools that monitor and assure compliance with company and regulatory standards. 

Responsibilities: 

• Promote automation and infrastructure best practices. 
• Contribute to a team of like-minded platform engineers building platforms in GCP public clouds 
• Write code and scripts to automate infrastructure and other common workflows. 

• Design and build highly scalable, secure, and highly available architectures.
• Provide expertise for the implementation of monitoring and management infrastructure for health, availability, and performance management. 
• Own CI/CD pipelines and maintain them to automate the deployments. 
• Use the right tool for the job; we love modern technology. 

Qualifications: 

• 3 years of experience on GCP platform. 
• AWS/Azure knowledge is a bonus. 
• Hands-on experience in developing and maintaining automation frameworks like Teamcity, Github Actions. 
• Knowledge of Ansible is an asset. 

• Hands-on experience working with and deploying containers and microservices. 
• Solid understanding of Terraform and Kubernetes 
• Knowledge on technologies like maven, nodejs, elasticsearch, mongodb, arrangodb, singlestore/memsql will be useful. 
• Good understanding of software development processes and methodologies. 
• Willingness to learn new emerging tools and technologies. 

We thank all applicants in advance for applying. Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.   

Compensation   

Thentia provides employees with a competitive base salary along with:     

• Full Health Insurance coverage  
• Flexible paid-time-off, including vacation and wellness days  
• Parental Leave  
• Employee Stock Option Plan    
• Year-end bonus potential  

• Remote or Hybrid working options (as position allows)  
• Professional development & training, including Udemy Business  

Our commitment    

Thentia is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are building products for a diverse world and are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard, which enables us to make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.  We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, provincial, or local laws in the regions we operate.  This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, or internships.   

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