Operations Engineer Jobs in Toronto, ON (NOW HIRING)

The Senior DevOps Engineer is the architect of our cloud-native ecosystem. This role focuses on maximizing engineering velocity through sophisticated automation, impeccable system reliability, and advanced Kubernetes orchestration. As a senior member of the technical team, this individual takes full ownership of the infrastructure roadmap, ensuring that the platform is secure, scalable, and optimized for high-performance critical business applications. What You'll be Doing Expert Kubernetes Orchestration & Management Cluster Architecture: Designs, deploys, and maintains production-grade Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, or self-managed) across multiple environments. Workload Optimization: Manages complex scheduling, resource quotas, and horizontal/vertical scaling to ensure cost-efficiency and performance. Networking & Connectivity: Configures and maintains advanced networking components, including Ingress Controllers, Service Meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd), and CNI plugins. Storage & Persistence: Implements and manages persistent storage solutions (CSI) for stateful applications, ensuring data integrity and high availability. Upgrades & Lifecycle: Executes seamless cluster upgrades and maintenance with zero downtime, utilizing blue/green or canary deployment strategies. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation Foundation as Code: Provisions and manages 100% of the cloud infrastructure through IaC frameworks like Terraform, OpenTofu, or Pulumi. Module Development: Creates reusable, version-controlled infrastructure modules that allow developers to provision resources in a standardized, self-service manner. Configuration Management: Implements automated configuration management to maintain consistency across distributed systems. Advanced CI/CD & Developer Experience Pipeline Engineering: Builds and optimizes sophisticated CI/CD pipelines that automate the entire path to production, integrating automated testing, security scanning, and deployment gates. GitOps Implementation: Drives the adoption of GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux) to ensure the cluster state is always synchronized with the source of truth in Git. Local Development Flow: Optimizes the "inner loop" of development, providing tools and environments that allow engineers to test Kubernetes-native applications locally or in ephemeral cloud environments. Security, Compliance & Observability Cluster Hardening: Implements rigorous security protocols, including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Network Policies, and Pod Security Standards. Compliance and Governance: Ensures all infrastructure meets applicable regulatory standards through automated audit logging and encryption at rest/in transit. Full-Stack Visibility: Designs and maintains a comprehensive observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, or similar) to provide deep insights into cluster health and application performance. Incident Response: Serves as a primary technical lead for infrastructure-related incidents, performing deep-dive root cause analysis and implementing automated preventions. Observability, SRE & Performance Analysis Observability Architecture: Designs and scales enterprise observability solutions, leveraging metrics, logging, and tracing to provide comprehensive visibility into platform health, performance, and reliability. SLO/SLI Engineering: Partners with product and engineering teams to define meaningful Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs), establishing error budgets that balance velocity with reliability. Proactive Alerting & Self-Healing: Develops sophisticated, non-fatiguing alerting strategies and implements automated remediation scripts to resolve infrastructure anomalies. Cost Observability: Implements FinOps tooling to provide granular visibility into cluster spend, attributing costs to specific teams, projects, or epics. Chaos Engineering: Regularly conducts failure injection experiments to validate system resilience and ensure the infrastructure can handle regional outages or component failures. What We're Looking For 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering. CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) is required. Additional CKS or CKAD is highly preferred. Deep expertise in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) with specific focus on managed Kubernetes services. Strong ability to write production-quality code in Go, Python, or Ruby for automation and custom tooling. Advanced understanding of Linux systems, networking protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS) and container runtimes Can proactively identifies and addresses technical debt, driving infrastructure initiatives aligned with long-term business objectives. Ability to act as a trusted technical mentor, sharing expertise and elevating the organization's Kubernetes and cloud-native capabilities. Ability to communicate complex infrastructure concepts, risks, and constraints clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Compensation & Perks $150,000 - $180,000 Annual Compensation. Annual Bonus. Health & Dental Benefits. Health & Wellness Spending Accounts. Perkopolis Staff Discounts. On-site Gym + Planet Fitness Membership Concession. Coffee Bar with Barista + Unlimited Snacks. Monthly Events, Friday Lunches & Daily Breakfast. Professional Growth & Development Opportunities. Space Ops welcomes applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. AI Disclosure: As part of our recruitment process, we may use AI-enabled tools to support the screening and assessment of applications. All AI-generated recommendations and outputs are reviewed and validated by our recruitment team.