DevOps Engineer – Clean Energy – Intermediate or Senior

Pearlfisher; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical benefits

RRSP matching

Unlimited vacation

Work-from-home flexibility

Downtown Vancouver office

Job summary

Pearlfisher in Vancouver, Canada, is seeking experienced DevOps engineers to design and build cloud-based web and mobile applications as part of a high-growth energy-tech team. You will help scale infrastructure, IoT data pipelines, and consumer-facing platforms while pushing modern cloud practices.

The role emphasizes action, collaboration across the stack, and a passion for quality engineering in a fast-paced startup-like environment with emphasis on automation and reliable systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years’ experience in cloud engineering or DevOps.
• 3+ years’ AWS components (VPC, Kinesis, EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM).
• 2+ years’ experience with CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Experience with containerized services (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS).
• Experience with logging/monitoring/alerting (Grafana, Sentry, SumoLogic, New Relic).
• Build, deploy, and packaging systems (Jenkins, CircleCI).

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver large-scale projects.
• Coordinate with development teams to identify and implement architectures for deploying, monitoring, and alerting.
• Contribute to automation, reusability, and hands-on development.
• Help expand cloud platform, data intelligence pipeline, and web/mobile applications.
• Work in a dynamic environment with high attention to detail.

Skills

AWS ecosystem

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Monitoring (Grafana, Sentry)

CI/CD (Jenkins, CircleCI)

Education

Bachelor degree in Science or equivalent experience

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS

EKS

Grafana

Sentry

SumoLogic

New Relic

Job description

Are you interested in joining a high-growth company and software team in the Clean Energy industry? Do you want to work with massive amounts of real-time energy data, and the latest cloud technologies in IoT, machine learning and mobile and web apps?

Our client and it’s people help make the world safer, brighter and more productive. They are a team of builders and doers who share a passion for innovation and a desire to outpace their competition. The organization offers an inclusive workplace, empowers its employees to embrace diversity in all forms, celebrates differences, and treats everyone with equity and respect.

This is a great opportunity to join the client’s clean energy team in their mission to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy and create a more intelligent home!

The goal is to reduce global carbon emissions through the manufacturing and sale of renewable power backup systems. They are looking for devops engineers to contribute to their technology vision and to design and build their new cloud-based web and mobile applications.

The company has recently experience explosive growth from its start-up origin and they need to scale up their technology while continuing to drive innovation of consumer power electronics. They are growing extremely quickly and looking to build out reliable, robust, IoT systems with feature-rich cloud services.

Why work for our client?

• You want to contribute technologically to the reduction of worldwide carbon emissions
• You want to help build a distributed power generation network
• You want to interact with the entire technology stack (from silicone to cloud)
• You want to contribute to modern tech stacks and deprecation of old stacks

What will you do?

You will have significant responsibility and influence in shaping the applications you build. We are looking for someone to iterate quickly on all stages of automation, performance and tooling, including bringing new products to production.

You’ll be responsible for helping our infrastructure and development teams grow and expand our cloud platform, data intelligence pipeline, and web and mobile applications.

Successful candidates will have strong engineering skills and communication, and a belief that data driven processes lead to great products. You will need to have a passion for quality and an ability to understand complex systems.

As part of this role, you will be required to:

• Demonstrate ability designing and delivering large-scale projects
• Coordinate with development teams to identify and implement appropriate architectures for deploying, monitoring, and alerting
• Passion for automation, re-usability, and hands on development
• Self-directed and capable of working in a dynamic and startup-like environment with a high attention to detail.

What will you be required to have?

• Bachelor degree in Science program or equivalent experience
• 5+ years’ experience including the following:
• 3+ years’ AWS components (VPC, Kinesis, EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM)
• 2+ years’ production experience with CloudFormation or Terraform
• Experience with containerized services ( Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, etc )
• Experience with standard logging/monitoring/alerting practices ( Grafana, Sentry, SumoLogic, New Relic, etc.)
• Build, deploy, and packaging systems ( Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)

What else will you need to be successful?

• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Employer RRSP contribution matching
• Unlimited vacation (and they genuinely encourage you to use it)
• Work-from-home flexibility
• Spacious new office in the heart of downtown Vancouver