DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Title: DevOps Engineer
Location: Canada
Work location: Remote
Project Duration: 6 months with possible extension

Senior-level experience (minimum years?)

8 years (SaaS, SRE or DevOps role)

Cloud expertise

Deep AWS infrastructure expertise (CDK, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, S3, RDS)

CI/CD tools used internally

e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline

Infrastructure as Code experience

e.g., Terraform strongly prefered, CloudFormation

Scripting skills

Python, Bash, etc.

Monitoring/observability tools experience

e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK

Azure exposure:

Some experience with Azure services is a +

Compliance or security requirements

SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, IAM, encryption, vulnerability mgmt

Job Description:
Your Impact

As a DevOps Engineer, you'll design, implement, and refine the CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments, and monitoring systems that power SaaS products. You'll partner closely with engineering teams to create a seamless, reliable infrastructure that supports rapid development while ensuring uptime, security, and performance. Your work will be critical to scaling our platform as we grow and innovate within the multifamily tech space.

Key Outcomes

Robust CI/CD Pipelines - Build and maintain pipelines that enable fast, reliable, and secure deployments across all environments.

Highly Available Infrastructure - Design cloud architecture (AWS) that ensures high uptime, fault tolerance, and scalability as traffic and data needs grow.

Improved Observability - Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks that proactively surface system issues and optimize system performance.

Security and Compliance - Strengthen infrastructure security and ensure environments meet industry best practices and compliance requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Build, maintain, and optimize scalable, reliable infrastructure in AWS (ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, CloudFront, etc.)

Design and manage CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar) to automate application builds, testing, and deployments

Implement best practices in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

Partner with software engineering teams to streamline the development workflow and ensure production readiness

Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)

Strengthen security postures through automation, IAM policies, encryption, and vulnerability management

Conduct cost optimization initiatives to manage cloud spend effectively as it grows

Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem processes for production outages or disruptions

What You Bring

Experience

5 to 8 years of experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or similar role supporting cloud-based SaaS applications

Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform strongly preferred)

Proven experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines

Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS)

Skills

Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar languages

Deep understanding of system observability-monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting

Proficient with cloud security best practices and threat modeling

Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills under pressure

Preferred

AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer)

Experience in a fast-paced SaaS or high-growth technology environment

Familiarity with compliance standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR)