Hybrid Senior DevOps Engineer

at Remarcable

• Job title: Senior DevOps Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: CA$130,000 - CA$150,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Vancouver, Canada

About the role

• Senior DevOps Engineer managing AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure for a startup SaaS company. Focused on CI/CD, system reliability, and security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and own CI/CD pipelines across multiple services to streamline software development and deployment.
• Maintain, optimize, and architect cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure) to ensure scalability, security, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and management using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.) with modular, reusable patterns.
• Monitor and improve system performance, troubleshoot production issues, and ensure high availability and reliability across environments.
• Collaborate with software engineers to enhance deployment strategies and build internal tooling that improves development workflows.
• Implement security best practices across infrastructure, networking, identity, and access.
• Own or support security and compliance requirements, including SOC 2 controls, documentation, and evidence collection.
• Manage and enhance containerization and orchestration tools (experience with any modern orchestration platform; ECS, Kubernetes, or similar).
• Optimize logging, monitoring, and alerting systems (ELK stack, Datadog, etc.) to improve visibility and accelerate incident response.
• Build and maintain observability tooling, including metrics, logging, and tracing (OpenTelemetry experience is a strong plus).
• Optimize cloud resource usage and implement cost-efficient infrastructure practices.
• Stay current with the latest DevOps best practices, tools, and industry standards.

Requirements

• 6–8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS required; Azure/GCP a plus) and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows end-to-end.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform preferred; CloudFormation or Ansible also welcome).
• Strong software development skills, with the ability to write clean, maintainable code in a modern programming language.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (experience with any major platform; ECS, Kubernetes, or similar).
• Strong understanding of security best practices, IAM, networking, system administration, and distributed systems.
• Experience supporting or contributing to security and compliance programs, ideally SOC 2 or similar.
• Proficiency with monitoring and observability tooling (ELK, Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, etc.).
• Strong understanding of cloud cost optimization strategies.
• Comfortable operating autonomously in an agile, fast-paced startup environment with a high degree of ownership.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, STD and Life insurance (100% Company-paid for the Employee)
• 401(k) with company match
• Bonus potential