Senior Cloud Development and Administration Specialist
Pay Rate: (flexible)
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Contract Length: 6 Months, Hybrid
We at Raise are hiring right now for one of our Clients. If you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Responsibilities:
- Work with Development Lead to design and develop full stack solutions to meet changing business needs
- Design and document technical components to implement business functions and integrate GenAI tools where applicable
- Ensure application components align with architecture standards and meet quality goals including performance and scalability
- Document technical requirements in compliance with corporate I&T directions and industry best practices
- Perform data modeling based on business requirements and processes
- Provide expert advice on technical feasibility and GenAI-assisted development approaches
- Review and integrate all application requirements including functional, security, performance, integration, and operations
- Identify risks, issues, and constraints associated with solutions and designs
- Assist in re-engineering, enhancement, or replacement of business rules and technologies using AI-assisted insights
- Ensure delivered mission-critical systems are high performing, secure, and scalable
- Design and implement fault-tolerant and highly available microservices-based systems
- Participate in daily Agile SCRUM meetings
- Promote DevOps and CI/CD best practices
- Champion Git workflow and administer Git repositories including GitHub Copilot integration
- Maintain Jenkins build environments and related pipelines
- Investigate and recommend cloud migration strategies
- Update JIRA tasks in a timely manner
- Contribute and review user stories, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios
- Develop front-end, server-side, and data access logic including AI-assisted code generation
- Implement unit tests and automated testing using Angular, Java, and Copilot where applicable
- Participate in peer code and documentation reviews
- Contribute to retrospectives and provide feedback to improve development processes
- Share knowledge and lessons learned regularly to support team development
- Coach and mentor team members in both traditional and AI-assisted development practices
- Transition support to maintenance groups
- Perform other duties as required by the project
Qualifications
It is important that the services be undertaken by the Specialist who can demonstrate expert knowledge of and experience in performing similar work for projects of comparable nature, size and scope as detailed below.
Qualifications and Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in mission-critical Java web application development
- 5+ years of experience in Angular or React front-end development
- 5+ years of experience with microservices architecture, Spring Boot, and fault tolerant system design
- Experience in integrating GenAI/GitHub Copilot into development workflows, including customization with internal codebases and usage in code review or pair programming
- Proficiency in REST APIs, JPA, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/TypeScript, and AODA compliance
- Strong background in data modeling and relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL)
- Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices including CI/CD, Git workflows, Jenkins
- Solid understanding of software security and application performance optimization best practices
- Experience with test automation and tools such as Selenium, Jest, and Jasmine
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience
Technical Capabilities:
- Java, JPA, Spring Boot, REST API, OAuth 2, Tomcat, WebSphere, Linux
- GitHub Copilot, GenAI, AWS
- SQL, AWS RDS, Oracle, PostgreSQL
- Angular, React, TypeScript, Node, Jest, Jasmine
- DevOps, CI/CD, BitBucket, Jenkins, Git Workflow, SonarQube, Fortify
- The City may contact the references provided. Should any reference fail to confirm that the services listed in Section 3.0 were performed in a satisfactory manner, the Candidate may be declared non-compliant and not considered for the remainder of the evaluation process.
Deliverables
- Design and document the technical components based on Application Architecture, Business Requirements
- Perform system analysis, develop detailed designs and system specifications
- Recommend and implement AI assisted software development practices
- Ensure the application components align with the application architecture and meet various architecture quality goals
- Define technical requirements and non-functional requirements of the system
- Advise and provide expert knowledge on the technical feasibility of the proposed deliverables
- Identify risks, issues and constraints associated with solutions and designs
- Identify and assist in the re-engineering, enhancement or replacement of business rules and associated technologies
- Review user stories, acceptance criteria, and prototype screens
- Review application design, data modelling, peer code, and deployment plan
- Code and unit test the business rules and functions
- Perform automated testing
- Set up and configure Git workflow and Jenkins Pipeline
- Recommend Cloud migration strategies
- Manage testbed and test data
- Ensure the delivered mission critical system is high performing, secure, and scalable
- Support various phases of testing, prepare for production implementation
- Mentorship, knowledge sharing and transfer
- Other deliverables as directed by management
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