Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

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The TMX group of companies includes leading global exchanges such as the Toronto Stock Exchange, Montreal Exchange, and numerous innovative organizations enhancing capital markets.  United as a global team, we’re connecting cross-functionally, traversing industries and geographies, moving opportunity into action, advancing global economic growth, and propelling progress. Through a rich exchange of ideas, meaningful collaboration, and a nimble operating model, we're powering some of the nation's most critical systems, fueling capital formation and innovation, bringing increased opportunity to business visionaries, product ingenuity to consumers, and career exploration to our team.

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Department Overview:
Global Technology Services (GTS) is one of the foundational divisions of the TMX Group, that empowers internal TMX business lines for their technology needs, operations and digital innovation. GTS as a client centric organization focuses on building technology capabilities, enabling our clients with the best technology solutions and providing effective technology financial and resource management processes. The cost effective operation is a key attribute of the GTS execution. GTS is responsible for delivery of all technology initiatives and services across TMX.
Role Summary:
The Kubernetes Platform Engineer is responsible for management and support of various container technologies in the infrastructure engineering team. The incumbent will design, build and maintain solutions based on business requirements and evaluation of information technology trends and practices.
The engineer will require a broad skill set with excellent problem solving and analytical skills in addition to a strong programmatic, “Infrastructure as Code”, approach to systems and container management.

Key Accountabilities:

• Help manage various different Kubernetes distributions (Openshift, Rancher, Amazon EKS and Fargate)

• Design, build and run elastic, cost-effective, resilient, robust, and secure architectures using modern approaches like service-mesh and loosely coupled design

• Maintain, configure and monitor containers using Infrastructure as Code principles in Development, Test, and Live environments

• Work with other Architects on Security, Data protection, and Failover Failback strategies

• Implement Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment using different CI/CD tools by container registries

• Provide rotational on-call support outside of regular business hours

• Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution

• Identify and recommend emerging technologies as they relate to team objectives

• Demonstrates strong organizational and priority setting skills

• Be an inspiring leader who is capable of initiating and leading change

Must Have(s)

• A university degree or relevant job experience in computer science or engineering

• Hands on experience with RedHat OpenShift, Rancher, Tanzu, or other enterprise/Cloud Kubernetes platforms

• Experience with application development using containers, leveraging API and CI/CD tooling (Gitlab, Jenkins, Tekton, etc)

• 5+ years of experience in an operational role e.g., Systems Admin, DevOps Engineer, SRE where you supported business apps in a production environment that was managed through a change management process.

• 3+ years of experience developing, deploying and supporting production applications with an active user base;

• Automation experience with Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools

• Experience with Kubernetes management, backup and recovery, and deployment tools (i.e., Kasten, Portworx, Argo, etc.)

• Experience with Source Code management (SCM) Tools such as Git/Subversion

• Excellent scripting skills (Perl/Python/Bash)

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to Have(s):

• Experience with platform observability and logging tools (i.e. Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, Grafana, etc.)

• Public cloud infrastructure experience, ideally AWS or GCP

• Solid understanding of general networking principles and common protocols

• Experience with IT management tools such as ServiceNow

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Excitement - Explore emerging technology and innovation, as well as ventures and digital finance that shape the future of global markets! Experience the movement of the market while grounded in the stability of close to 200 years of success.

Connection - With site hubs in some of the world’s most multicultural cities, we leverage our size and structure to create rich connections and belonging while experiencing powerful global impact through our work.

Impact - More than a platform, we use our talents to power mission-critical systems that drive global economic advancement, innovation, and growth. As well, our employee-led Team Impact spreads social good via our giving strategy.

Wellness - From empathetic leadership to a culture of flexibility and balance, we believe wellness at work creates the maximum yield and a stronger “we”. Plus, with a cloud-first and hybrid workstyle, as well as generous time-off and leaves, we support a life well lived! 

Growth - From a growth mindset in our work, to expansion in our business, TMX is home to action-takers energized by the achievement of ambitious growth.

Ready to enrich your career with impactful work, leaders who truly care, and the flexibility and programs to help you thrive as part of #TeamTMX ? Apply now.

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