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Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Company | Semaphoresolutions |
| Title | Cloud Infrastructure Engineer |
| Normalized title | - |
| Department / team | Infrastructure Team |
| Location | Victoria, BC, Canada |
| Work model | Remote / Remote |
| Employment type | Contract |
| Salary | - |
| Status | active |
| ATS provider | BambooHR |
| Posted / first seen | 2026-05-20 / 2026-05-30 |
| Changed / last seen | 2026-05-30 / 2026-06-06 |
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Description
About the Role
We're seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer for a 3-month contract engagement to join our Infrastructure team and take ownership of operational excellence and SRE toil work. This is a remote, hands-on, high-velocity role where you'll keep the lights on and reduce operational burden from day one.
This contract position exists to free up our existing team to focus on roadmap initiatives. By taking over day-to-day operational work and SRE toil, you'll enable one of our current engineers to tackle strategic projects. Your success means the platform runs smoothly while the team makes forward progress on critical initiatives.
You'll bring deep operational expertise to manage production systems, respond to operational needs, and—critically—build systems and automation that reduce toil over time. This role is ideal for an experienced SRE or infrastructure engineer who thrives on operational work, can quickly understand production systems, and naturally improves everything they touch.
Our platform powers genomics and laboratory workflows for customers in highly regulated environments. You'll work with modern infrastructure tooling (HashiCorp stack, AWS, Kubernetes patterns) while ensuring we meet the reliability, security, and compliance requirements our customers depend on.
What You'll Do
Operational Excellence & SRE Work (60%)
Keep the lights on: Monitor, respond to, and resolve production incidents and operational issues
Handle toil work: Manage routine operational tasks that currently consume team capacity (deployments, configuration changes, access management, maintenance windows)
Participate in on-call rotation: Share responsibility for after-hours production support
Respond to support escalations: Work with support and development teams to troubleshoot and resolve platform issues
Manage production changes: Execute and validate infrastructure changes in production environments
Maintain operational runbooks: Update and improve documentation for operational procedures
Perform system maintenance: Handle patches, upgrades, certificate renewals, and other recurring operational tasks
Ensure service reliability: Monitor system health, respond to alerts, and maintain SLAs
Toil Reduction & Automation (30%)
Identify automation opportunities: Spot repetitive manual work and build automation to eliminate it
Improve operational tooling: Create scripts, utilities, and self-service tools to reduce operational burden
Enhance monitoring and alerting: Improve observability to catch issues before they become incidents
Streamline deployment processes: Reduce friction and manual steps in release and deployment workflows
Build self-service capabilities: Enable developers to handle routine tasks without infrastructure team involvement
Implement infrastructure-as-code: Convert manual procedures into automated, repeatable infrastructure code (Terraform)
Document systems improvements: Leave behind improved runbooks, automation, and processes
Measure and track toil: Help quantify operational burden and demonstrate reduction over time
Collaboration & Knowledge Transfer (10%)
Enable roadmap progress: By handling operational work, free up permanent team members for strategic initiatives
Collaborate with development teams: Support their infrastructure needs and unblock their work
Document tribal knowledge: Capture operational knowledge and procedures that exist only in people's heads
Conduct handoffs: Provide clear documentation and knowledge transfer for systems and automation you build
Participate in team rituals: Standups, retrospectives, and planning to stay aligned with team priorities
What We're Looking For
Required
5-8 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, SRE, or DevOps engineering
Strong operational background: Experience managing production systems and handling incidents
Proven toil reduction skills: Track record of identifying repetitive work and automating it away
Strong expertise with cloud infrastructure (AWS strongly preferred)
Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform required)
Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Nomad, or similar)
Experience with service mesh and service discovery (Consul, Istio, or similar)
Experience with secrets management (Vault, Secrets Manager, or similar)
Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting, and observability
Comfortable with on-call work: Experience with incident response and production support
Proven ability to onboard quickly and become productive in new environments
Strong troubleshooting skills: Can diagnose complex system issues under pressure
Self-directed work style: Minimal supervision required for operational work
Bias for automation: Natural instinct to eliminate manual work
Preferred
Experience with HashiCorp tooling (Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Vault)
Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated industries
Familiarity with compliance frameworks ( HIPAA , HITRUST, SOC2 , ISO 27001)
Experience with observability platforms (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus)
Experience supporting Java/Spring applications
Background in genomics, bioinformatics, or laboratory systems
Experience with GitOps workflows and CI/CD automation
Previous contract or consulting experience with rapid onboarding
Experience quantifying and measuring toil (e.g., SLO/ SLI frameworks)
What Success Looks Like
First 2 Weeks
Complete onboarding and gain access to all systems
Shadow on-call rotation and understand incident response procedures
Take ownership of routine operational tasks (deployments, configuration changes, monitoring)
Build relationships with development and support teams
Begin handling operational requests and support escalations independently
Identify your first 2-3 toil reduction opportunities
First Month
Fully integrated into operational workflows—handling day-to-day platform operations with minimal guidance
Successfully participating in on-call rotation
Delivered at least 1-2 automation improvements that reduce manual work
Team members report they have more time for roadmap work due to your operational coverage
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve production issues independently
Improved at least one operational runbook or procedure
End of Contract (3 Months)
Platform reliability maintained or improved: No degradation in service quality or uptime
Toil measurably reduced: Team can point to 3-5 significant automation or process improvements you delivered
Roadmap progress enabled: At least one permanent team member successfully completed a strategic initiative because you freed up their capacity
Operational systems improved: Left behind better monitoring, alerting, documentation, and automation
Knowledge transfer complete: Documented all operational improvements and handed off systems/automation cleanly
Team capacity increased: Reduced the time the permanent team spends on operational toil by a measurable amount (target: 20-30% reduction)
Optionally: Position identified for contract extension if operational coverage continues to be valuable
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