DevOps Engineer - Night Shift

Aylo Careers; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Aylo Careers in Montreal is seeking a Senior DevOps to support and improve production and development infrastructure across multiple teams and environments. The role blends onsite collaboration with remote contributions, in a hybrid setup at our Montreal office.

You will architect, implement, and optimize scalable infrastructure across cloud, Kubernetes, and IaC, mentor junior team members, and drive CI/CD adoption to improve reliability and performance in a high-traffic setting.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar role.
• Experience with Linux environments in production.
• Knowledge of scalable infrastructure for high traffic systems.
• Familiarity with cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Experience with CI/CD and automation tooling.
• Strong scripting and debugging abilities.

Responsibilities

• Support and improve hybrid production infrastructures for multiple development teams.
• Help developers solve complex technical problems across stacks and environments.
• Architect and plan improvements for multi-datacenter development environments.
• Participate in design decisions and prototyping of new tech.
• Promote automated and elastic infrastructures using cloud, Kubernetes, and serverless solutions.
• Document processes and monitor performance metrics across environments.

Skills

DevOps

Systems administration

Linux

Scripting

CI/CD

Networking

Monitoring

Tools

VMware

Cloud providers

Kubernetes

DNS

WAF

Ansible

ElasticSearch

Percona Server

GitLab

Python

Job description

Availability required: 6:00 PM to 2:00 AM EST/EDT (Montreal time)

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 Sr DevOps within a fast pace high traffic environment, you will be responsible to support and improve a production and development infrastructure for many development teams having complex and industry leading methodologies and technologies.

What You\'ll Be Doing:

• Support and improve many hybrid production infrastructure environments for more than 15 development teams handling 100+ products, 10K+ domains and Billions of hits day.
• Help developers solve complex technical problems for multiple stacks and environments.
• Architect and plan improvements of a multi-datacenter development environment.
• Participate in design decisions, including new technology research and prototyping.
• Advocate and help development teams to migrate 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.
• Help develop and ameliorate critical cloud-based shared services serving many Products.
• Support and augment the coverage of our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) setup.
• Mentoring junior DevOps in gaining experience and follow best practices.

What you’ll need to be successful:

Must Haves

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar role
• A love for making things efficient and reliable
• Experience working as DevOps or Systems Administrator working with Linux environments for several years
• Understanding of scalability patterns applied to infrastructure architecture for high traffic systems
• Great knowledge about the 3 major Cloud providers offering and real experiences with at least one
• 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)
• Able to debug and code (in Python preferably)
• Good understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery models and best practices
• Familiarity with configuration management and/or orchestration tool such as Ansible
• 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 Percona Server for MySQL
• Experience managing Gitlab server instances
• Having deployed applications on Kubernetes on all major cloud providers
• Professional context switcher
• Natural leadership

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

In this role you will be exposed to adult content