DevOps Engineer

Aylo Careers; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Aylo Careers in Montreal, Canada is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to support and improve production and development infrastructure across multiple teams and products. You will work hands-on to maintain scalable, observable systems and collaborate across departments to drive operational excellence.

The role emphasizes automation, CI/CD, and IaC, with opportunities to influence architecture in a hybrid workspace combining office and remote contributions.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience in DevOps or Systems Administration with Linux environments.
• Ability to apply scalability patterns to high-traffic infrastructure.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider.
• Familiarity provisioning servers, VMs, and services with VMware or equivalent.
• Able to help developers debug intricate issues and navigate the command line, scripting, and configuring web servers and load balancers.
• Experience managing highly available DB clusters and cache systems.
• Strong networking knowledge for web hosting and delivery environments (DNS, HTTPS, WAF).
• Understanding of CI/CD models and best practices.
• Familiarity with configuration management/orchestration tools such as Puppet.
• Knowledge of monitoring processes and tools.
• Self-sufficient, with excellent communication and time-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Support and improve development and production infrastructure environments for more than 15 development teams handling multiple products.
• Help developers solve technical problems for multiple stacks and environments.
• Continuously improve server monitoring to reduce noise and strengthen incident detection and response.
• Architect and plan improvements in a multi-datacenter development environment.
• Participate in design decisions, including new technology research and prototyping.
• Advocate migrating services to automated and elastic infrastructures using Cloud, Kubernetes, Serverless, etc.
• Document processes and monitor performance metrics for all environments and services.
• Promote and implement proper CI/CD strategies.
• Support and augment the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) setup.

Skills

Linux administration

Cloud architecture

High-traffic scalability

Networking

CI/CD

Scripting

Web servers

Monitoring

IaC

Troubleshooting

Team collaboration

Time management

Tools

VMware

Kubernetes

GitLab

Puppet

Job description

Established in 2004, we are a tech pioneer offering world-class adult entertainment and games on some of the internet’s safest and most popular platforms. With the support of an international team of dynamic and collaborative innovators, we are on a mission to enable safe user experiences and empower our communities by celebrating diversity, inclusion, and expression — all while maintaining robust trust-and-safety protocols.

We embrace the best of both worlds! Local talent can thrive in our collaborative office space with the flexibility of a hybrid work environment, while remote team members play an integral role in shaping our dynamic culture from afar. We have offices in Montreal (Quebec), Austin (Texas) and Nicosia (Cyprus).

*A select number of positions require full-time in office attendance*

As a DevOps engineer within a fast-paced, high-traffic environment, you will be responsible for supporting and improving production and development infrastructure across multiple development teams, each with distinct needs and complex, industry-leading methodologies and technologies. You will manage diverse technology stacks and collaborate closely with other DevOps team members to serve various departments with specialized requirements. This role demands hands‑on collaboration with your DevOps colleagues to ensure seamless infrastructure support, knowledge sharing, and unified operational excellence across the organization.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Support and improve development and production infrastructure environments for more than 15 development teams handling multiple products.
• Help developers solve technical problems for multiple stacks and environments.
• Continuously improve server monitoring to ensure accurate alerting, reduce noise and alert fatigue, and strengthen processes for proactive issue detection and response.
• Architect and plan improvements in a multi-datacenter development environment.
• Participate in design decisions, including new technology research and prototyping.
• Advocate and help development teams migrating their services to more automated and elastic infrastructures, leveraging best‑of‑breed technology (Cloud, Kubernetes, Serverless, etc.)
• Documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics for all our environments and services.
• Promote and implement proper CICD strategies and practices.
• Support and augment the coverage of our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) setup.

What you’ll need to be successful:

Must Haves:

• At least 3 years of experience working as DevOps or Systems Administrator working with Linux environments
• Understanding of scalability patterns applied to infrastructure architecture for high traffic systems
• Knowledge and experience about at least one major Cloud provider
• Familiarity provisioning servers, virtual machines, and services with VMWare or equivalent
• Able and willing to help developers debugging intricate issues
• Not afraid of the command line, scripting, and configuring applications such as Web Server, Load Balancers, etc.
• Experience with managing highly available DB clusters and cache systems
• Good understanding of networking and infrastructure setup in a web hosting/delivery environment (DNS, HTTPS, WAF)
• Good understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery models and best practices
• Familiarity with configuration management and/or orchestration tool such as Puppet
• Knowledge of monitoring processes and tools
• Self‑sufficient, excellent communication and great time management skills

Nice To Haves:

• Advanced experience with ElasticSearch
• Advanced experience with MySQL
• Experience managing Gitlab server instances
• Experience deploying applications on Kubernetes on major cloud providers and on‑premises

As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees

In this role you may be exposed to adult content

FRENCH TO FOLLOW:

This disclaimer is to notify you that personal data relating to you has been collected by Aylo (“Controller”). This includes your personal data either submitted by you, obtained from publicly available sources (e.g., LinkedIn), or provided to us by someone with your consent, referred you for potential employment. Note that, you can withdraw your consent at any time by reaching out to us.

Your personal data has been collected and will be processed by Controller for the following purposes:

• managing our recruitment related activities;
• setting up and conducting interviews and tests for you;
• evaluating and assessing the results pertaining to interviews and tests; and
• for purposes otherwise needed for evaluating your candidacy for employment at our company

provided however, that we may not process your data for all of the aforementioned purposes.

Such processing is legally permissible under Art. 6(1)(f) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) as necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by a Controller, which are the solicitation, evaluation, and selection of applicants for employment.

Your personal data will be shared with Greenhouse Software, Inc., a cloud services provider located in the United States of America and engaged by Controller to help manage its recruitment and hiring process on Controller’s behalf. Accordingly, if you are located outside of the United States, your personal data has been transferred to the United States subject to appropriate additional safeguards under Standard Contractual Clauses.

Your personal data will be retained by Controller as long as we determine it is necessary to evaluate your application for employment and according to our data retention period specified in our privacy policy.

If you would like to know more about our privacy/data retention policy, feel free to check out our privacy policy.

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