DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and sustain scalable, secure, and resilient architectures within the AWS infrastructure.

• Automate the management of development, staging, and production environments utilizing Terraform and configuration management tools.

• Create and manage GitLab CI/CD pipelines to facilitate secure, reliable, and frequent software delivery.

• Engage in sprint ceremonies alongside development and data engineering teams.

• Assess AI-assisted deployment, SIEM, and SOAR tools.

• Establish and uphold cloud security practices encompassing infrastructure, identity, networking, and deployment workflows.

• Collaborate on vulnerability management, secrets management, OIDC authentication, compliance automation, audit readiness, and disaster recovery.

• Develop and sustain monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance management capabilities.

• Take part in incident management, root-cause analyses, and post-incident reviews.

• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation following the onboarding process.

• Utilize AI-powered operational tools to enhance anomaly detection, incident correlation, and response automation.

• Identify opportunities for automation through scripts and AI tools.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 3 years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or SRE.

• More than 3 years of practical experience with core AWS services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, Route 53, RDS, S3, and CloudWatch.

• Demonstrated experience in building infrastructure with Terraform and configuration management tools.

• Full ownership of GitLab or a similar CI/CD platform, including pipeline design, deployment automation, and the integration of security and quality controls.

• Solid understanding of cloud security fundamentals, including IAM, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and OIDC federation.

• Experience with enterprise observability platforms like Datadog, ELK/OpenSearch, or an equivalent.

• Proficient scripting skills in Python, Bash, or a similar language.

• Familiarity with AI agents for development or operations.

• Authorization to work in Canada; SOVRA is unable to sponsor work permits or transfers.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health and medical coverage.

• Paid time off.

• A structured learning and development program.

• Paid parental leave.