Senior Software Developer, DevOps

Description

Senior Software Developer, DevOps

What We Seek

We are looking for a Senior Software Developer, DevOps with strong CI/CD engineering experience to help us improve how software is built, tested, released, and deployed across Carnegie Learning.

This is a hands-on engineering role with CI/CD and software delivery engineering at its core. You will evaluate our existing build and deployment ecosystem, identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement, and engineer solutions that make software delivery faster, more reliable, more standardized, easier to troubleshoot, and safer for development teams.

You will work extensively with our Jenkins-based CI/CD platform, Groovy shared libraries, GitHub workflows, AWS environments, infrastructure as code, automated testing, code-quality tooling, and deployment automation. We are looking for someone who can do more than maintain pipelines—you should be able to understand how our current delivery process works, challenge what can be improved, and build reusable, maintainable solutions that move our CI/CD capabilities forward.

You should be comfortable developing across the entire software delivery lifecycle from code commit through build, test, artifact creation, deployment, validation, and rollback, while partnering closely with Software Engineering and QA teams.

You should also be a strong communicator who collaborates well in a distributed environment and is comfortable partnering across engineering, QA, SRE, security, support, and product teams. We value people who are practical, curious, accountable, and motivated by continuous improvement.

Our environment includes AWS, Jenkins, Groovy, CloudFormation, ECS/Fargate, GitHub, Jira, SonarQube, Splunk, New Relic, , Slack, Snowflake, Databricks, and other modern engineering tools and platforms.

Location is flexible! This role can work from our St. John's, NL office on the water, or remotely within Alberta, Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia, or Ontario. Candidates must already be residing in Canada. No visa sponsorship is available.

What Your Day Will Look Like

DevOps, CI/CD and Developer Enablement

Design, develop, and improve Jenkins shared libraries, Jenkins files, and CI/CD pipelines using Groovy
Assess and optimize build, test, release, and deployment workflows for speed, reliability, scalability, and developer experience
Create reusable pipeline components and standardized delivery patterns that reduce duplication, manual effort, and operational risk
Develop and apply software engineering practices including source control, code review, automated testing, documentation, and maintainability when developing CI/CD tooling, automation, shared libraries, and reusable components
Improve build performance through better pipeline architecture, parallelization, caching, dependency management, and artifact management
Strengthen deployments through automated testing, quality gates, validation, health checks, environment promotion, and rollback capabilities
Partner with development and QA teams to improve how applications are built, tested, packaged, versioned, and deployed
Modernize CI/CD practices and use delivery metrics to identify bottlenecks and measure improvement
Lead technical improvements that modernize engineering tools and practices, reduce manual effort and operational risk, and improve developer productivity and deployment confidence
Support Carnegie Learning's evolution toward platform engineering and developer self-service, leveraging to improve service ownership, standards, and engineering insights

DevOps and Cloud Engineering

Build and manage secure, scalable AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, primarily CloudFormation
Support containerized application deployments using Docker and AWS ECS/Fargate
Develop code, scripts, tools, APIs, and reusable components that automate engineering and operational workflows
Troubleshoot complex issues across application code, builds, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, networking, and configuration
Identify root causes and implement sustainable solutions rather than short-term workarounds
Modernize legacy tooling and processes where it improves software delivery, reliability, or developer productivity

Deployment and Operational Readiness

Use Splunk, New Relic, and AWS CloudWatch to validate deployments and troubleshoot application, infrastructure, and pipeline issues
Improve deployment monitoring, alerting, rollback, and post-deployment validation
Participate in incident response and root cause analysis when build, release, deployment, or infrastructure issues contribute to production problems
Support production reliability through performance monitoring, capacity awareness, and improvements related to software delivery and infrastructure
Turn recurring delivery and operational issues into automated, corrective, or preventative improvements

Collaboration and Ownership

Lead CI/CD and DevOps improvements across engineering teams
Partner closely with Software Engineering, QA, SRE, Security, and Architecture
Provide technical guidance, share knowledge, and help teams adopt effective CI/CD, DevOps, cloud, and software delivery practices
Influence technical decisions and engineering standards across teams through practical recommendations, reusable patterns, and hands-on implementation
Establish clear standards, documentation, reusable examples, and operational runbooks