Senior DevOps Engineer in Canada Creek, Nova Scotia at Jobgether
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Job Description
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Canada.
This role sits at the core of a high-scale SaaS environment where reliability, performance, and automation are critical to delivering seamless user experiences. You will be responsible for ensuring the stability and scalability of complex cloud infrastructure supporting a global learning platform used by millions of users. Working closely with software engineering and product teams, you will help design and operate resilient systems while continuously improving deployment, observability, and incident response practices. The environment is highly collaborative, fast-moving, and engineering-driven, with a strong emphasis on automation and platform thinking. You will also act as a technical leader, guiding improvements across infrastructure and mentoring engineers in operational excellence. This is a hands-on role where your work directly impacts system uptime, customer experience, and platform evolution at scale.
- Own and operate production cloud environments, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance across distributed systems.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure using automation-first principles and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Develop and improve observability, monitoring, and alerting systems to proactively detect and prevent production issues.
- Support incident response and on-call operations, diagnosing and resolving complex system and application issues.
- Partner with engineering teams to enhance CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and release reliability.
- Contribute to system architecture decisions with a focus on scalability, resilience, and long-term maintainability.
- Drive automation initiatives and continuous improvement across infrastructure, deployment, and operational workflows.
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, IT, DevOps, or SRE roles, including strong production system ownership.
- 4+ years of hands-on DevOps or cloud engineering experience in scalable SaaS or distributed environments.
- Strong expertise with AWS and Infrastructure as Code tools such as CloudFormation or AWS CDK.
- Experience with CI/CD systems, deployment pipelines, and modern software delivery practices.
- Solid background in monitoring, observability, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting.
- Strong scripting skills (PowerShell or similar) and automation mindset.
- Ability to work cross-functionally, communicate effectively, and operate in fast-paced, distributed teams.
- Exposure to AI tools for engineering productivity and system optimization is highly valued.
- Fully remote-first role with flexible working arrangements.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and wellness benefits depending on location.
- Retirement savings plans and performance-based bonus opportunities.
- Generous paid time off and flexible scheduling to support work-life balance.
- Home office and equipment allowances to support remote productivity.
- Continuous learning, career development programs, and internal mobility opportunities.
- Inclusive, employee-driven culture with a strong focus on collaboration and innovation.