Principal DevOps Engineer

Location : Toronto / Ottawa

Department : Engineering

Reports To : SVP of Product and Engineering

About the Role :

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team and take ownership of our infrastructure strategy, automation pipelines, and system reliability. As a technical leader, you’ll drive DevOps best practices, mentor team members, and collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and high‑performing systems.

Key Responsibilities :

Architect, implement, and maintain CI / CD pipelines across multiple environments

Design and evolve AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation

Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud‑native microservices architecture

Familiar with migration and tech stack upgrades in AWS

Lead efforts to improve system observability, monitoring, and incident response

Partner with development teams to ensure smooth deployments and high availability

Implement security best practices, including secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance enforcement

Evaluate and introduce new tools and technologies to optimize performance, scalability, and automation

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior DevOps and SRE team members

Define SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs for critical services and ensure reliability goals are met

Qualifications :

8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related roles

Strong experience AWS cloud platform - IAM, EC2, EKS, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda

Experience maintaining and deploying highly available, fault‑tolerant systems at scale

Experience implementing CI / CD using tools like GitHub Actions

Operational (e.g., HA / Backups) and NoSQL experience (e.g., DynamoDB, Redis)

Proficiency in scripting or programming language in Python

Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog, New Relic

Experience with Infrastructure as Code – IaC - using Terraform, Pulumi

Experience with security practices, compliance standards (SOC2, ISO 27001, etc.)

Excellent communication and leadership skills

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience

What We Offer :

Competitive salary and equity packages

Equity / stock options

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Learning and development budget

A collaborative, growth‑oriented engineering culture

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