Title: AWS Cloud Engineer
Salary: Based on experience + Vacation + Benefits
Length: Full-time, permanent
Location: Thornhill, ON *Hybrid
Reporting Manager: VP of Engineering
About Us:
WellnessLiving isn’t just our name, it’s who we are. We’re the software company with a heart, placing people and community at the center of everything we do. Our diverse and inclusive culture provides our people and customers with the support, resources, and tools they need to achieve their goals—professionally and personally. From a bootstrap start-up to the fastest-growing software company for class and appointment-based businesses in North America, our commitment to excellence can be seen in all aspects of our business. Trusted by over 5,000 business owners and 15 million users worldwide, our mission is to empower businesses with a value-driven platform that is reliable, easy to use, and equipped with all the tools and services needed to manage and grow a business.
When you join WellnessLiving, you join a team that is customer-focused, community-centered, and forward-thinking and is continuously improving and innovating. We celebrate your wins, recognize your strengths, learn together, and inspire each other to reach new heights, offering a variety of benefits to help you lead happier and healthier lives.
About You:
Are you looking to take your career to the next level?
If you’re a natural-born problem solver and a team player looking for the opportunity to learn and grow within the SaaS industry, then we want to talk to you.
Our ideal candidate will bring:
- Teamwork and Collaboration — Easy to talk to, very approachable, empathetic, patient, puts others at ease, and can work well with others.
- Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving — The ability to analyze, evaluate, and strategize the best solutions when making decisions or faced with challenging situations.
- Strong Work Ethic — Hardworking, dedicated, reliable, and highly motivated with the desire and determination to exceed expectations.
- Natural Leadership Skills — Oversees processes, guides initiatives, holds themselves accountable, listens without judgment, and inspires and nurtures the growth of others to do their best work.
- Entrepreneurial Spirit and Business Mindset — Embraces innovation and continuous improvement, actively seeks out change, and is knowledgeable of current industry trends, practices, and technology.
- Time Management — Uses time efficiently, focuses on top priorities, respects the time of others, and can take ownership of tasks and projects to push them along.
Objectives of the Role:
- Work in tandem with our engineering team to identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the company
- Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance
- Provide guidance, thought leadership and mentorship to developer teams to build their cloud competencies
- Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards for code quality and thoughtful design
- Manage cloud environments per company security guidelines
Responsibilities:
- At the direction of lead architects, develop and implement technical efforts to design, build, and deploy AWS applications, including large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modeling, and advanced analytics
- Participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle for AWS solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance
- Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures
- Educate teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training when necessary
- Keep up-to-date with AWS services and industry trends to recommend and implement the latest technologies
- Develop and manage infrastructure using IaC tools like AWS CloudFormation or Terraform
- Automate deployment processes, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and ensure efficient resource
- Implement security best practices and compliance standards in AWS, including identity and access management (IAM), VPC, and encryption
- Set up monitoring, alerting, and logging to ensure system health and troubleshoot issues as they arise; expand implementation of the AWS CloudWatch and other monitoring tools to track the performance and health of the applications
- Ensure AWS accounts and resources are compliant with company policies and governance
- Working w/in architectural design, focusing on scalability, availability, and security using AWS services like EC2, RDS, S3, and more
- Consider following a microservices architecture to take full advantage of AWS services like AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, and AWS Fargate
- Choose the appropriate AWS data storage services such as Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, S3, or Redshift based on the application's requirements
- Create a disaster recovery plan using AWS services like AWS Backup, snapshots, and cross-region replication.
- Integrate DevOps practices with AWS services like CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy to automate the software development and deployment process
- Working with Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, S3, and Redshift
Skills and Qualifications:
- Four or more years of experience in architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science, information technology, or mathematics
- AWS certification
- Understanding of and experience with the five pillars of a well-architected framework
- Deep knowledge w/in web services, API, and REST
- Knowledge of SOA, Microservices, database architecture, machine learning, and advanced analytics
- Proven ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of business analysts, developers, products teams, data scientists, and subject-matter experts.
- Proven record of optimizing AWS resources for cost-efficiency and performance, including selecting the exemplary instance types and scaling appropriately
- Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving skills, with an ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity.
Please note that those who meet the qualifications for the position will be contacted directly.
We appreciate you taking the time and look forward to reviewing your application.
WellnessLiving is an equal opportunity employer. At WellnessLiving, we are proud to embrace and celebrate differences. Employment at WellnessLiving is based purely on a candidate’s qualifications and experiences as they directly relate to professional competencies.
WellnessLiving does not discriminate against any employee or potential employee because of race, creed, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws and regulations in the locations where we operate. Furthermore, we will not tolerate bias or discrimination of any kind from our employees or customers. At WellnessLiving, we bring everyone together to create something incredible! We are a unique and diverse blend of leaders and action-takers, and that mindset encompasses our passion and commitment to our product and our employees.