Senior On-Premises DevOps Engineer

Job Description

IND Technology is seeking an experienced Senior On-Premises DevOps Engineer to deploy, administer, secure, and support our platform in customer-managed and internally hosted environments.

This is a hands-on role covering Linux systems administration, physical and virtual infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, Nginx, PostgreSQL, Kafka, MinIO, monitoring, GitOps, automation, backup, disaster recovery, and customer deployment support.

You will be responsible for ensuring that on-premises platform installations are repeatable, secure, observable, maintainable, and recoverable.

Key Responsibilities

Linux Systems Administration

• Administer and troubleshoot infrastructure running on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
• Provision, configure, patch, harden, monitor, and maintain physical and virtual Linux servers.
• Manage:
• System services
• Packages and repositories
• Users and permissions
• Storage and filesystems
• Networking
• Scheduled tasks
• Certificates
• Logs
• System security
• Diagnose CPU, memory, disk, process, network, filesystem, and operating-system performance issues.
• Develop standard operating-system builds and configuration baselines.
• Automate repeatable Linux provisioning and configuration.

On-Premises Platform Deployment

• Install and maintain platform infrastructure components including:
• Semaphore
• Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL
• PostgreSQL EFD
• MinIO or another S3-compatible object store
• Kafka
• Nginx
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Loki
• Validate that infrastructure prerequisites are complete before installation.
• Coordinate server IP addresses, DNS records, external domains, service hostnames, certificates, firewall rules, SMTP settings, and administrative credentials.
• Maintain deployment checklists and pre-installation validation tools.
• Support initial system configuration, platform bootstrap, and application deployment.
• Work with customer infrastructure and security teams during installations and upgrades.

Kubernetes Administration

• Deploy, administer, upgrade, scale, and troubleshoot on-premises Kubernetes clusters.
• Manage Kubernetes control-plane and worker nodes.
• Operate Kubernetes resources including:
• Deployments
• StatefulSets
• DaemonSets
• Services
• Ingress
• Jobs and CronJobs
• ConfigMaps
• Secrets
• PersistentVolumes and PersistentVolumeClaims
• StorageClasses
• Configure rolling updates, readiness probes, liveness probes, startup probes, replica counts, and resource controls.
• Troubleshoot pod failures, cluster networking, DNS, storage, ingress, scheduling, certificates, and authentication.
• Manage cluster upgrades, node maintenance, certificate renewal, capacity planning, and workload availability.
• Support persistent storage across customer virtualisation and storage platforms.

GitOps and ArgoCD

• Implement and maintain GitOps-based deployment using ArgoCD.
• Manage ArgoCD projects, applications, repositories, initialisers, and environment configuration.
• Configure automated synchronisation, pruning, self-healing, health validation, and deployment policies.
• Investigate failed synchronisation, unhealthy workloads, configuration drift, and incomplete rollouts.
• Maintain safe rollback and platform-redeployment procedures.
• Ensure deployment configuration is version-controlled, reviewable, and auditable.

Configuration Management and Automation

• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks for:
• Linux provisioning
• System configuration
• Kubernetes prerequisites
• Package installation
• Security hardening
• Certificate deployment
• Monitoring installation
• Platform upgrades
• Use Terraform where appropriate for virtual infrastructure, DNS, networking, or supported customer platforms.
• Maintain Semaphore workflows for controlled Ansible and infrastructure automation.
• Develop reusable installation and upgrade automation.
• Ensure automation is idempotent, documented, testable, and safe to rerun.
• Reduce customer-specific manual configuration through standardised variables and templates.

Nginx, Networking, and External Access

• Configure and operate Nginx as the platform entry point, reverse proxy, load balancer, and SSL/TLS termination service.
• Configure routing for platform services including:
• CLC frontend
• EFD frontend
• CLC backend
• EFD backend
• Kafka
• Keycloak
• Manage external domains, service hostnames, upstream services, redirects, headers, timeouts, and health checks.
• Install and validate server certificates, certificate chains, encrypted private keys, and passphrases.
• Troubleshoot DNS, routing, firewall, proxy, TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, and certificate issues.
• Coordinate IP-address allocation for platform components and Kubernetes nodes.
• Work with customers to document inbound, outbound, and inter-service firewall requirements.

PostgreSQL Administration

• Install, configure, operate, and troubleshoot PostgreSQL on Linux.
• Support separate platform and EFD PostgreSQL databases where required.
• Perform PostgreSQL tuning and operational troubleshooting.
• Investigate:
• Slow queries
• Locking
• Connection exhaustion
• Storage growth
• Replication issues
• Resource constraints
• Review indexes, query plans, statistics, vacuuming, connection settings, and maintenance processes.
• Configure backups, retention, restoration, and integrity-validation procedures.
• Restore databases and validate connectivity, schema, migrations, and application functionality.
• Monitor database capacity and performance.

Kafka Administration

• Install, configure, administer, and troubleshoot Kafka in on-premises environments.
• Manage brokers, topics, partitions, replication factors, retention, permissions, producers, and consumers.
• Monitor broker health, storage, throughput, partition status, replication, and consumer lag.
• Troubleshoot connectivity, authentication, unavailable partitions, performance, and delayed message processing.
• Plan Kafka upgrades, maintenance, backup, and recovery.
• Coordinate Kafka integration with Kubernetes applications and external platform services.

MinIO and Object Storage

• Install, configure, and operate MinIO or another S3-compatible object-storage platform.
• Manage buckets, access policies, service accounts, lifecycle settings, storage capacity, and data retention.
• Configure object-storage backup and restoration.
• Monitor capacity, availability, replication, and storage performance.
• Troubleshoot upload, download, authentication, certificate, and connectivity issues.
• Implement temporary data-buffering and re-synchronisation procedures during storage outages.
• Validate application compatibility with S3-compatible endpoints.

Monitoring, Logging, and Observability

• Install, configure, and maintain:
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Loki
• Build dashboards for:
• Linux servers
• Kubernetes nodes and workloads
• PostgreSQL
• Kafka
• MinIO
• Nginx
• Application services
• Configure metrics collection, service discovery, alerting rules, log collection, retention, and notifications.
• Monitor CPU, memory, disk, filesystem, network, pod health, database performance, Kafka consumer lag, storage utilisation, and API availability.
• Develop actionable alerts for availability, performance, capacity, backup, certificate-expiry, and security conditions.
• Use logs, metrics, events, and system telemetry to investigate incidents.
• Maintain post-installation, post-upgrade, and post-recovery health checks.

Identity, SMTP, and Secrets

• Configure and support Keycloak in on-premises environments.
• Configure SMTP integrations used for platform notifications and identity services.
• Securely manage administrative credentials, passwords, tokens, certificates, private keys, and application secrets.
• Support Kubernetes Secrets, SOPS, Sealed Secrets, Vault, or equivalent technologies.
• Maintain encrypted backups of critical secrets and platform configuration.
• Ensure sensitive information is not committed to source control or included in unsecured documentation.
• Support credential, key, and certificate rotation.

CI/CD and Application Delivery

• Support GitHub and GitHub Actions workflows used to build and release platform artefacts.
• Maintain deployment integration between GitHub, container registries, Kubernetes, and ArgoCD.
• Support Docker image distribution to customer-managed environments.
• Validate frontend build-time configuration before deployment artefacts are produced.
• Manage environment-specific deployment variables and configuration templates.
• Develop repeatable installation, upgrade, rollback, and application-redeployment procedures.
• Perform post-deployment application smoke tests.

Programming and Scripting

• Develop operational automation using Python and Bash.
• Build scripts for:
• Prerequisite validation
• Server health checks
• Kubernetes bootstrap
• Certificate validation
• Database backup and restoration
• Object-storage synchronisation
• Kafka validation
• ArgoCD bootstrap
• API smoke testing
• Upgrade validation
• Add error handling, logging, input validation, retry behaviour, and rollback safeguards.
• Maintain automation in GitHub with documentation and peer review.

Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Incident Response

• Develop, maintain, and test recovery procedures for:
• Linux server failure
• Kubernetes control-plane failure
• Kubernetes worker-node failure
• PostgreSQL loss or corruption
• Kafka failure
• MinIO or storage failure
• Nginx failure
• Certificate expiry
• Network or DNS misconfiguration
• Monitoring-service failure
• Define backup schedules, retention policies, storage requirements, and restoration dependencies.
• Automate backup validation and recovery wherever practical.
• Conduct periodic recovery exercises.
• Maintain preconditions, recovery procedures, communication plans, and verification checklists.
• Lead or participate in production incident response.
• Conduct root-cause analysis and track corrective and preventive actions.
• Review deployment and disaster-recovery documentation at least quarterly.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Strong experience in Linux Systems Administration, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a similar role.
• Strong Linux and SysOps experience in on-premises environments.
• Production experience with Ubuntu or another enterprise Linux distribution.
• Hands-on experience with physical servers, virtual machines, networking, storage, and customer-managed infrastructure.
• Production experience deploying and operating Kubernetes.
• Strong experience with Docker and containerised applications.
• Strong experience using Ansible for provisioning and configuration management.
• Experience with Terraform or another Infrastructure-as-Code tool.
• Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Strong Python and Bash scripting skills.
• Experience installing, tuning, and troubleshooting PostgreSQL.
• Experience administering Kafka.
• Experience operating MinIO or another S3-compatible storage platform.
• Experience configuring Nginx as a reverse proxy and load balancer.
• Experience with Grafana and Prometheus.
• Experience with centralised logging using Loki or a similar platform.
• Strong understanding of DNS, TCP/IP, routing, firewalls, HTTP/HTTPS, load balancing, and SSL/TLS.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure and application incidents.
• Strong technical documentation and customer communication skills.

Desirable Experience

• ArgoCD and GitOps delivery
• Terragrunt
• Semaphore
• Keycloak
• Helm and Kustomize
• SOPS, Sealed Secrets, or Vault
• High-availability PostgreSQL
• Highly available Kafka
• Distributed MinIO
• Velero
• VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, Proxmox, or another virtualisation platform
• Enterprise storage platforms
• Air-gapped or restricted-network environments
• High-availability and zero-downtime deployment patterns
• Backup-integrity testing and disaster-recovery automation
• Enterprise, regulated, or security-sensitive customer environments

Technology Environment

Ubuntu Linux, physical and virtual servers, Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, Ansible, Terraform, Semaphore, GitHub, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, Kafka, MinIO, Nginx, Keycloak, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Python, Bash, YAML, DNS, SMTP, TCP/IP, firewalls, and SSL/TLS.

Pay: $110,000.00-$120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• Paid time off
• RRSP match
• Work from home

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Vancouver, BC V6C 3P6: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Application question(s):

• What is your salary expectation?
• If you are not Canadian permanent resident or Citizen what is your current status in Canada and when is going to expire your current visa?

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree (required)

Experience:

• Senior On-Premises DevOps Engineer: 5 years (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Vancouver, BC V6C 3P6

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