Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Description
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our technical team. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure automation, CI/CD engineering, and system reliability, with deep expertise in AWS cloud services and modern DevOps tooling.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain AWS-based infrastructure using best practices for scalability, reliability, and security.
- Automate cloud resource provisioning and environment management using Terraform and Ansible.
- Architect, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines across development, staging, and production environments.
- Enhance deployment automation, environment consistency, and release workflows.
- Troubleshoot, monitor, and optimize production systems on Linux-based environments.
- Implement and improve Docker-based containerization, image optimization, and secure deployment.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure production systems meet high availability, performance, and operational excellence standards.
- Participate in incident response, and root cause analysis (RCA).
- Promote DevOps best practices, automation, observability, and continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications
- Master's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline.
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps.
- Expert-level proficiency in: AWS Cloud Services; Terraform; Ansible; CI/CD Systems (Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)
- Strong skills in: Bash; Golang
- Deep understanding of: Linux operating systems; Docker containers
Preferred Skills (Nice-to-Have)
- Knowledge of PHP, Java, JavaScript
- Familiarity with caching technologies such as Redis, Memcached
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, or multi-region cloud infrastructure
- Understanding of distributed systems and microservices
- Hands-on experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch)
Soft Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent communication skills
- Effective collaboration across engineering teams
- Strong ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement mindset
Benefits:
- Dental, Vision, Medical insurance, Paid Holiday, Paid Time Off, Paid Sick Leave, Management training programs
- Salary range $90,000 to $ 110,000 CAD
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