Cloud Software Engineer

Job Title: Cloud Software Engineer in Ottawa! Job Description The Software Developer will support the design, development, testing, and deployment of the Telemetry & Observability Platform (TOP). This enterprise platform integrates vehicle telemetry, diagnostic information, engineering artifacts, manufacturing evidence, service data, and software lifecycle signals to provide actionable insights. The role involves working within a cross-functional Agile team to build cloud-native services, data integrations, user-facing capabilities, and platform observability. Responsibilities

- Design, develop, test, and maintain TOP platform components.
- Build and integrate REST APIs, backend services, data-processing functions, and event-driven workflows.
- Develop integrations with approved vehicle, service, engineering, manufacturing, and software-factory data sources.
- Support the ingestion, normalization, validation, storage, and retrieval of telemetry and diagnostic information.
- Contribute to web-based interfaces and dashboards used to present diagnostic, operational, AI-performance, and platform-health information.
- Implement logging, metrics, distributed tracing, error handling, and health checks for platform services.
- Write unit, integration, API, and automated regression tests.
- Participate in code reviews and address feedback related to maintainability, performance, security, and coding standards.
- Support CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, configuration management, and cloud environment troubleshooting.
- Assist with the integration of AI services through governed APIs and standardized interface contracts.
- Implement role-based access controls and follow enterprise security, privacy, data-retention, and auditability requirements.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, including API specifications, deployment instructions, support procedures, and design notes.
- Participate in backlog refinement, estimation, sprint planning, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
- Investigate defects and operational issues using logs, metrics, traces, and other platform evidence.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and blockers and communicate them promptly to the delivery team.

Essential Skills

- Experience with GCP and AWS cloud services.
- Proficiency in developing and consuming REST APIs.
- Understanding of object-oriented programming and software design principles.
- Experience with SQL and relational databases.
- Proficiency in using Kubernetes and Docker for containerization.
- Familiarity with GitHub for source control.
- Understanding of Agile Software Development and Software Development Lifecycle.
- Experience with Spring Boot for building applications.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Approximately 2-5 years of software development experience.
- Programming experience in languages such as Python or TypeScript.
- Familiarity with automated unit and integration testing.
- Basic understanding of cloud computing, containerization, and CI/CD practices.
- Experience with frontend applications using React and TypeScript.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform services and cloud-native technologies.
- Familiarity with event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, and data pipelines.
- Experience implementing platform observability and using tools such as OpenTelemetry.
- Knowledge of AI or machine-learning service integration through APIs.

Work Environment This position is based in Kanata, Ontario and requires a hybrid work arrangement with four days onsite per week at the Ottawa Engineering Center.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Kanata, ON.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $46.00 - $65.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.
Workplace Type
This is a hybrid position in Kanata,ON.

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