WE EMBRACE A TALENT-LED CULTURE
Our work is driven by our team’s desire to be pioneers.
In 2009, we created Robots & Pencils with the then-contrarian view that mobile would be more transformative than the Internet. Turns out we were right.
Today, our thinking is rooted in the belief that, in the age of unprecedented technology acceleration, maintaining a competitive advantage requires new strategies and a focus on innovation.
Our approach has been to create a company designed to follow the talent, allowing us to amass an unfair share of hyper-skilled people who call Robots & Pencils home. A team of people who not only develop innovative solutions to transform businesses, but also create products that have been previously inconceivable.
Our Core Values:
- Strong Work Ethic
- Top Drawer
- Always Learning
- Heart
- Discipline
- Efficacy
- Together
Robots & Pencils Offers:
We care about Talent. Hard stop.
We do this in many ways, by offering:
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An attractive compensation package
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A fast paced environment with a culture that embraces change, and working together to find a far better way
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Work remotely, or in an office: you can reside anywhere in North America, and work remotely hybrid. You also have the option to work in our offices if you live in an area where we have a local office.
- High quality talent: we hire only the best talent we can find. You do remarkable things and solve tough problems where many others have failed before.
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Excellent benefits Medical, Dental, Vision etc. (this routinely gets reviewed each year for enhancements)
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Paid stat/federal holidays, vacation and sick days
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Flexible paid stat/federal holidays (because we care about what you care about and want to celebrate our culturally diverse team!)
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R&P branded swag
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Parental & adoption leave top up / salary continuance
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401K/RRSP matching
But we also know a job isn’t just defined by the above, so we pride ourselves in being a company that also offers:
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A #FollowTheTalent mentality -- meaning you can be located anywhere in North America and work remotely. (We have 10+ years of experience building virtual working environments #WeKnowWhatWereDoing)
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A dynamic, fast-paced environment where we’re constantly #alwayslearning.
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And lastly, a team that cares about you and wants to drive the talent experience. How do we do this? Over the years we’ve hosted comedian shows, had holiday parties, happy hours, brunches with the CEO, surprise coffee runs for the team, health & wellness events and prizes, trivia nights, surprise dinners for R&P team members and their family and so much more! (And yes, we’ve prioritized a way to do these things in a virtual setting and not just in person - thank you Zoom!)
Job Description
This is a remote hybrid position requiring residency in the Calgary or Toronto local surrounding area, to occasionally work in office with your team.
We're looking for a Sr. DevOps Engineer who is recognized by their teammates, leaders, and stakeholders (referred to as "others" from here out) as being a trusted advisor and capable shipper.
Are you the person we're looking for?
Robots & Pencils is a talent led organization with a helper culture and an unfair share of creative makers who are passionate about finding a far better way to deliver new products to market and to develop innovative solutions that transform businesses. Talent who find the most success at R&P are reliable, credible, open-minded, and altruistic. If you're not sure whether you demonstrate those qualities, there are questions at the end of this description that might help you find out.
Qualifications:
- Python, Node.JS, Typescript and Gitlab experience required.
- Reconciled the DNS records for our domains in DNSimple to remove unnecessary records and add new routes to a domain to point at new marketing materials for a product we're launching
- Migrated the infrastructure for an app to AWS using Terraform
- Projected costs for an AWS infrastructure using physical architecture diagrams and real usage data
- Established CI/CD pipelines that measure quality, evaluate security, and automate deployment to a containerized infrastructure in AWS using Github Actions
- Identified under-utilized Azure resources to help us prune unnecessary infrastructure
- Refactored infrastructure in an AWS account to reconfigure lambdas and establish additional environments for testing
- Recommended with examples, to another team, an approach for achieving high automated test coverage in CI/CD pipelines with a level of effort that promotes adoption
- Collaborated with learners and experts in the bi-weekly DevOps craft meeting or contributed recommendations to our Craft Radar (opinions about techniques, tools, platforms, languages, and frameworks), to develop expertise, set other the talent up for success with that expertise, and enable R&P to push boundaries and remain relevant
- Recommended, with examples, to another team, an approach to CI/CD release promotion in which container OS versions are routinely and continuously upgraded/patched without releasing unverified configurations to production
Desired Specifics:
- On-Prem Certificate Management
- GitLab Pipelines
- DataDog Logging & Monitoring
- AWS Lambdas, API Gateway, DynamoDB, etc.
- Prefer back-end dev capabilities
- -Experience with applying deploying and maintaining serverless lambdas
- -Experience with multi region and multi AZ
- -Experience with CodePipeline, SQS, EventBridge, RDS, DynamoDb, SES, CloudWatch alarms, ECS and other key AWS resources
This is a remote hybrid position requiring residency in the Calgary or Toronto local surrounding area, to occasionally work in office with your team.
• 7+ years of delivering software
• B.S. or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience
