The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for the reliability, security, scalability, automation, and operational support of Bison’s enterprise integration platforms and containerized runtime environments.
This role partners closely with Integration Engineering, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure Operations teams to deliver stable, secure, and highly available platform services that enable engineering teams to build and deploy applications safely and efficiently.
The successful candidate will design, administer, automate, and support Linux-based container platforms, CI/CD services, observability tooling, load balancing, storage infrastructure, and platform resiliency capabilities supporting hybrid on-premises and SaaS-connected environments.
Specific Responsibilities include:
Platform Infrastructure & Operations:
Support platform lifecycle activities including patching, upgrades, hardening, vulnerability remediation, performance optimization, and operational maintenance.
Support highly available multi-node environments including clustering, node resiliency, failover operations, and disaster recovery readiness.
Administer and support shared platform services including load balancing, ingress, certificates, reverse proxy services, distributed storage, and runtime networking.
CI/CD, Automation & Platform Enablement:
Collaborate with engineering teams on deployment standards, rollback strategies, environment promotion workflows, and operational best practices.
Observability, Security & Resilience:
Deploy and maintain monitoring, logging, observability, and telemetry platforms including Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and related tooling.
Maintain operational dashboards, alerting strategies, uptime visibility, and platform health monitoring standards.
Ensure platform operations align with Bison IT Security standards including patch governance, secrets management, segmentation controls, operational hardening, and change management practices.
Collaboration & Operational Support:
Coordinate with Infrastructure, Security, Engineering, and external support vendors during incidents, outages, upgrades, and recovery activities.
Our Ideal Candidate will possess:
Experience with infrastructure automation, scripting, CI/CD tooling, and Git-based operational workflows.
Strong troubleshooting skills across Linux, networking, containers, virtualization, storage, and distributed platform services.
Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent tooling.
Understanding of vulnerability management, secrets management, security hardening, and operational governance practices.
Experience supporting enterprise integration platforms, API gateways, event brokers, or hybrid integration runtimes is considered an asset.
Experience with technologies such as Gravitee, Solace, Groundplex, Kafka, Debezium, Ceph, or similar platforms is considered an asset.
This job is classified under NOC Code: 21231.
Why Bison:
• Thrive in a supportive team that provides coaching and training to help develop your skills and progress your career
• Dispersed work environments that promote a healthy work-life balance
• Meaningful and impactful work and projects with an essential service provider
• Join our engaging Wellness Program & extracurricular sports teams
About Bison:
• Celebrating over 50 years in Business
• Active in giving back through Corporate Social Responsibility and Charitable Giving
• Committed to environmental sustainability
Bison Transport is committed to Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace.
