DevOps Lead/ EKS

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Oakville; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A mission-driven financial services organization in Oakville is seeking a DevOps Engineering Lead to manage a secure and automated AWS cloud environment. The role involves leading Infrastructure as Code initiatives and complex CI/CD pipelines while collaborating across teams. Ideal for an experienced engineer ready for a hands-on leadership position with national impact, this role prefers candidates with 5+ years in AWS and modern DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in designing and implementing IaaS and PaaS solutions in AWS.
• Deep proficiency in modern DevOps practices.
• Proven ability to lead infrastructure incident resolution in production cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a secure, automated AWS cloud environment.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code initiatives and manage CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure scalable, reliable service delivery.

Skills

AWS Services (Lambda, S3, EKS, Transfer Family)

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Containerization

Serverless Architecture

Tools

SonarQube

Xray

Artifactory

Job description

Join a mission-driven financial services organization focused on making homeownership more accessible for Canadians.

As a DevOps Engineering Lead, you’ll play a critical role in building and maintaining a secure, automated AWS cloud environment—enabling self-service capabilities and enterprise-wide DevSecOps practices.

This role offers the opportunity to lead Infrastructure as Code initiatives, architect cloud-native patterns, and manage complex CI/CD pipelines supporting over 50 AWS services. You’ll serve as the SME for all things cloud infrastructure, drive IAM and monitoring strategies, and collaborate with teams across the business to ensure scalable, reliable service delivery. Ideal for an experienced engineer, open to working hybrid in Oakville and looking to step into a hands‑on leadership role with national impact.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing IaaS and PaaS solutions in AWS, including expertise with services like Lambda, S3, EKS, and Transfer Family
• Deep proficiency in modern DevOps practices, including Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, containerization, and serverless architecture
• Proven ability to lead infrastructure incident resolution and system design conversations in production cloud environments

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience with monitoring and code quality tooling such as SonarQube, Xray, and Artifactory
• Familiarity with IBM MQ, Device42 (CMDB), and test strategy planning for infrastructure components
• AWS Solutions Architect certification and/or Azure cloud experience

Daily Responsibilities

• Hands‑On Engineering: 70%
• Team Collaboration & Cross-Functional Work: 30% Applicants must be currently authorized to work in United Stateson a full-time basis now and in the future. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance. #LI-AC1