DevOps Engineer

at  Canopy Growth Corporation

Legalization has opened up the recreational cannabis market in Canada, and the global demand for medical cannabis continues to expand. In this exciting new environment, Canopy Growth’s mission is to be the No. 1 cannabis company in the world. We’re looking for incredible people to join us on the journey.
The Company
With millions of square feet of licensed cannabis production and operations spanning five continents, Canopy Growth Corporation (“Canopy Growth”) is the largest legal producer of cannabis in the world. It is a listed company on the Toronto Stock Exchange (WEED), the New York Stock Exchange (CGC), and is part of the S&P Composite Index. Its wholly owned subsidiaries — including its flagship, Tweed, and international medical companies operating under the Spectrum Cannabis brand — are leading producers of legal, regulated cannabis.
Headquartered in Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canopy Growth recognizes that employees are at the core of its success, and takes pride in a corporate culture that emphasizes inclusiveness, collaboration, and diversity. Our employees come from a wide range of backgrounds, each bringing their own unique skills and talents to the table, working together to continue and increase our incredible momentum of growth.
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Director of Global IT Engineering, and as part of the Canopy Growth AWS Team, the candidate will have responsibility for the design, implementation, and maintenance of Canopy Growth’s AWS environments. The ideal candidate will have a solid ‘hands-on’ background in deploying and managing services, systems and infrastructure in AWS with orchestration and automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Verify and monitor cloud and on premises environments and respond to issues as they arise, adding new monitoring as needed;
• Work with Canopy internal teams to ensure processes progress all the way through maturity. Recommend alternate choices and trade-offs for various design decisions;
• Document and work with other members of the operations team to cross-train on AWS deployments as they occur;
• Develop and improve operational practices and procedures for various AWS services;
• Build tools and automation that eliminate repetitive tasks;
• Be part of an on-call rotation for afterhours emergency response;
• Investigate performance and process failures and work to improve them; and
• Stay apprised of new developments in both AWS and operations, help in determining how and when those would affect and/or improve our architecture.
• Prepares and submits project status reports;
• Work with the IT Engineering and Operations teams to thoroughly implement and test enterprise backup and recovery solution, including Disaster Recovery initiatives;
• Provides technical support, training, guidance and consultation as required for other IT staff;
• Writes all necessary system, user and operations documentation;
• Develops and gives presentations to communicate technical concepts to user staff and occasionally management;
• Keeps current with software industry developments related to the application environment;
• Makes recommendations for continued improvements and provides technological solutions for system functionality and efficiency;
• This position requires on-call duties after hours on a regular basis from a problem-solving perspective as well as installing new systems or upgrades during off-hours, in order to minimize the impact on end-users use of their systems;
• Performs related duties as assigned;
• Coordinate with other technical staff to implement systems and software in AWS environments;
• Incident handling, diagnostic and management of systems/applications, in respect of the Business SLAs;
• OS Management of other Environments (DEV, INT, UAT, PROD);
• Performing regular systems/applications upgrades;
• Perform ad hoc responsibilities as needed;
• Collaborate with development teams to help streamline infrastructure deployments for current and new environments.

Experience

• At least one year of hands on AWS experience;
• Proficient working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) like EC2, EBS, ELB, S3, RDS and other core AWS technologies;
• Knowledge of Linux systems administration and architecture;
• Knowledge of Windows systems administration and architecture;
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, ECS or other containerization technologies;
• Experience with continuous deployment / continuous delivery using tools such as git, Circle CI, Jenkins, etc;
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools like Ansible;
• Experience with Terraform;
• Skill to build smart, efficient, scripting in languages such as Bash, Python, PowerShell;
• Familiarity with logging/monitoring using tools such as CloudWatch, DataDog, Logstash, Kibana a plus;
• You act independently when necessary, creating and executing plans for maintenance and implementation.

Other Details
This is a full-time position based out of Smiths Falls/Kanata.
We appreciate the interest from all candidates, and promise to review all applications, but we will only be contacting those who best fit the requirements. If you don’t hear from us, don’t fret; every resume we get is kept in our database for six months for consideration in future searches for talent.
Canopy Growth welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities.
Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
One last note: the chosen applicant will be required to successfully complete background and reference checks.
Thank you so much for your interest in Canopy Growth

• Verify and monitor cloud and on premises environments and respond to issues as they arise, adding new monitoring as needed;
• Work with Canopy internal teams to ensure processes progress all the way through maturity. Recommend alternate choices and trade-offs for various design decisions;
• Document and work with other members of the operations team to cross-train on AWS deployments as they occur;
• Develop and improve operational practices and procedures for various AWS services;
• Build tools and automation that eliminate repetitive tasks;
• Be part of an on-call rotation for afterhours emergency response;
• Investigate performance and process failures and work to improve them; and
• Stay apprised of new developments in both AWS and operations, help in determining how and when those would affect and/or improve our architecture.
• Prepares and submits project status reports;
• Work with the IT Engineering and Operations teams to thoroughly implement and test enterprise backup and recovery solution, including Disaster Recovery initiatives;
• Provides technical support, training, guidance and consultation as required for other IT staff;
• Writes all necessary system, user and operations documentation;
• Develops and gives presentations to communicate technical concepts to user staff and occasionally management;
• Keeps current with software industry developments related to the application environment;
• Makes recommendations for continued improvements and provides technological solutions for system functionality and efficiency;
• This position requires on-call duties after hours on a regular basis from a problem-solving perspective as well as installing new systems or upgrades during off-hours, in order to minimize the impact on end-users use of their systems;
• Performs related duties as assigned;
• Coordinate with other technical staff to implement systems and software in AWS environments;
• Incident handling, diagnostic and management of systems/applications, in respect of the Business SLAs;
• OS Management of other Environments (DEV, INT, UAT, PROD);
• Performing regular systems/applications upgrades;
• Perform ad hoc responsibilities as needed;
• Collaborate with development teams to help streamline infrastructure deployments for current and new environments