Cloud DevOps Engineer – Health
Alquemy Search & Consulting
Full Job Description
Location: Vancouver, BC
Contract: 12 months
Schedule: 40 hours/week, 5 days onsite
Start Date: ASAP
We are seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer to join the Health Team. This role will focus on provisioning and maintaining Azure infrastructure, supporting Kubernetes-based applications, and building reliable CI/CD and GitOps deployment processes.
What You’ll Do
• Provision and maintain Azure infrastructure using Terraform, including compute, networking, storage, and services supporting application and data workloads.
• Manage and fine-tune Azure infrastructure to improve reliability, performance, resource utilization, and cost efficiency.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain applications on Kubernetes using Helm and Argo CD.
• Create and maintain Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, and GitOps deployment configurations across environments.
• Troubleshoot deployment failures and application issues involving pods, services, ingress, configuration, resource limits, and connectivity.
• Work closely with developers and data engineers to support releases and troubleshoot application and data engineering workloads, including ETL pipelines.
• Build and maintain container images and manage their publication to container registries.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines to make application releases reliable and repeatable.
• Monitor application and infrastructure health, investigate alerts, and resolve operational issues.
• Follow established security practices for access, secrets, and infrastructure and deployment changes.
• Maintain clear runbooks and operational documentation.
What You’ll Bring
• Experience in DevOps or cloud operations.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or another managed Kubernetes platform such as EKS/GKE, or self-hosted Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience deploying and troubleshooting applications on Kubernetes.
• Experience using Helm to configure and deploy applications, including maintaining charts and environment-specific values.
• Hands-on experience using Terraform to provision and maintain cloud infrastructure, including reusable configuration, state management, and reviewing and applying infrastructure changes.
• Hands-on experience managing Azure compute, networking, storage, access, and monitoring.
• Hands-on Linux administration and network troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with Git and at least one CI/CD platform, such as GitHub Actions.
• Ability to correlate logs, metrics, and events to diagnose and resolve issues.
• Clear communication, ownership of assigned work, and effective collaboration with other engineers.
Nice to Have
• Experience supporting data platforms, data pipelines, or Azure services used for data processing and storage.
• Experience supporting AI/ML pipelines.
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Kubernetes monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
Land Acknowledgement
The Linux Association of Canada respectfully acknowledges that our home in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, is located on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis. These lands have been home to First Nations peoples for thousands of years, including the Cree, Dakota, Nakota, and Saulteaux, who maintain deep and enduring relationships with the land and the South Saskatchewan River.
We are grateful to the First Nations and Métis peoples who have cared for these lands for generations. We honour their enduring relationship with the land, their cultures, histories, and contributions, and we offer our respect and sincere gratitude as we live, work, learn, and build community here.


