DevOps Engineer

Aylo Careers; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech pioneer in adult entertainment is seeking an experienced DevOps engineer to support and improve their production infrastructure across multiple development teams. This role involves addressing complex technical challenges, architecting multi-datacenter solutions, and implementing best practices for CI/CD. Candidates should have at least 3 years of experience in Linux environments and knowledge of cloud services. This position offers a hybrid work model based in Montreal, encouraging both local and remote talent.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as DevOps or Systems Administrator.
• Knowledge of scalable infrastructure architecture.
• Experience with at least one major Cloud provider.
• Familiarity with provisioning servers and services.
• Good understanding of networking in a web environment.
• Knowledge of CI/CD best practices.

Responsibilities

• Support and improve production infrastructure across multiple teams.
• Help developers troubleshoot technical issues.
• Enhance server monitoring processes.
• Architect improvements in a multi-datacenter environment.
• Document processes and performance metrics.
• Implement effective CI/CD strategies.

Skills

Linux environments

Scalability patterns

Cloud provider knowledge

VMWare or equivalent

Scripting skills

Database management

Networking and infrastructure

Continuous integration/delivery

Configuration management tools

Monitoring processes

Tools

ElasticSearch

MySQL

GitLab

Kubernetes

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.)
• Document 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
• Having deployed applications on Kubernetes on major cloud providers and on‑premises
• Professional context switcher

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