Senior DevOps Developer, GCPay

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

📋 Description

• Design and implement scalable hosting solutions for dynamic SaaS web applications, ensuring reliability, performance, and resilience at scale.

• Lead the architecture, implementation, and ongoing development of secure, scalable, and dependable Infrastructure-as-Code solutions throughout GCPay environments.

• Establish, document, and promote the adoption of engineering standards, operational processes, and DevOps best practices to enhance consistency, maintainability, and delivery efficiency.

• Take ownership and continuously enhance security and compliance practices across infrastructure and applications, including hardening, access controls, and least-privilege enforcement.

• Utilize modern tools such as Docker, Terraform, AWS cloud technologies, and associated automation frameworks to provision, manage, and deploy infrastructure and services.

• Collaborate closely with development and testing teams throughout the development lifecycle to ensure quality, operational readiness, and successful delivery.

• Propel automation across build, deployment, infrastructure, and operational workflows, and assess new technologies to enhance reliability, scalability, security, or developer productivity.

• Define, monitor, and refine Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets to guarantee that reliability goals are measurable, comprehended, and met.

• Provide technical leadership in aligning platform strategy, infrastructure investments, and operational priorities with business and product needs.

• Participate in on-call rotation and spearhead incident response efforts, ensuring timely resolution, strong cross-functional collaboration, and clear communication during production events.

• Lead blameless post-incident reviews to uncover root causes, drive corrective and preventive actions, and enhance overall platform reliability and team effectiveness.

• Contribute hands-on coding, scripting, and automation to enhance tooling, deployment workflows, infrastructure management, and operational efficiency.

• Oversee the operational health, scalability, and security posture of GCPay’s core platform, which includes systems developed on Java, MySQL, ElasticSearch, and AWS cloud technologies.

• Act as a senior technical resource and trusted partner across teams, employing sound engineering judgment and business context to address complex platform and operational challenges.

• Exhibit strong ownership, a self-starter attitude, and a dedication to continuous improvement, learning, and engineering excellence.

• Tackle complex problems that necessitate thorough evaluation of variable factors by adopting a broad perspective to identify the best approach and innovative solutions.

• Communicate technical challenges effectively within and across teams.

• Stay current with evolving technologies and demonstrate them through implementation.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or related roles supporting cloud-based applications.

• Advanced hands-on experience with Linux administration.

• Significant experience managing large-scale cloud infrastructure, with deep expertise in AWS preferred.

• Proven history of architecting and operating large-scale, highly available, and resilient systems.

• Strong scripting and automation capabilities using languages such as Bash, Python, or similar.

• Expert-level knowledge of AWS services including EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, ELB, S3, IAM, VPC, DynamoDB, and RDS.

• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and contemporary container orchestration technologies.

• Proficient with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation.

• Extensive experience with CI/CD tools and software delivery workflows, including Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, or similar technologies.

• Familiarity with observability, log analysis, and monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, etc.

• Solid experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, including strong SQL skills.

• Experience supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar compliance and audit requirements.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey information to both technical and non-technical audiences.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual cash bonuses.

• Commissions for sales roles.

• Stock grants.

• Comprehensive benefits package.