DevOps Manager

Raise; Brampton; On-site; CAD 83,000 - 91,000; Full time

Job summary

Raise is hiring a DevOps Manager in Brampton, Ontario. The Lead Platform Engineer will steer cloud infrastructure, craft scalable platforms on Google Cloud, and lead a distributed engineering team to deliver secure, observable systems.

Strong candidates will have 8+ years in software/infrastructure, deep GCP expertise, and proficiency in Go/Python, Terraform, and GitLab. This is an on-site role four days a week with a 4-month contract and a competitive hourly rate.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software and infra engineering with leadership
• Deep hands-on GCP/GKE experience
• Strong Go and Python for internal tooling
• Terraform IaC and GitLab CI/CD expertise
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain multi-project cloud environments
• Scale and optimize Kubernetes/GKE architectures
• Oversee observability stacks and alerting
• Lead a distributed engineering team and mentor engineers
• Improve cost governance and FinOps practices
• Advance internal developer platform (e.g., Backstage)

Skills

GCP & GKE

Distributed leadership

Go & Python

Terraform & GitLab CI/CD

Observability stack

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in CS/CE/SE/IT

Tools

Kubernetes

GitLab

Terraform

ArgoCD

Job description

• Pay Rate: $63.00/hour, depending on experience

• Pay Rate: $63.00/hour, depending on experience
• Contract Length: 4 Months
• Location Brampton, Ontario

Raise is currently hiring a Devops Manager on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader. Our Client is a technology company that combines decades of industry expertise with next-generation AI technology that helps organizations reinvent how they build, operate and deliver by pairing human ingenuity with agentic systems that scale intelligence across the enterprise.

Note: The primary pay rate is based on T4 classification; however, we will also consider applications from candidates interested in an INC classification, where applicable.

Description

The Lead Platform Engineer in this role will spearhead our clients cloud infrastructure and platform initiatives. In this role, you will lead a distributed engineering team, drive the evolution of our internal developer platform, and architect highly scalable, secure, and observable cloud systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure & Automation: Design, provision, and maintain multi-project cloud environments using Terraform (IaC) and robust CI/CD pipelines via GitLab at scale.
• Platform Architecture: Scale and optimize core container orchestration platforms leveraging Kubernetes, GKE, ArgoCD (GitOps), and custom controllers.
• Observability & Telemetry: Oversee and manage fleets of OpenTelemetry collectors alongside monitoring stacks including Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, and PagerDuty.
• Developer Experience: Champion internal developer portals (such as Backstage) to streamline deployment workflows, operational efficiency, and self-service capabilities.
• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Cost & Operational Governance: Implement best practices in FinOps and AIOps to optimize cloud spending and enhance automated incident management.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software and infrastructure engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership or team management role handling distributed engineering teams.
• Deep, hands-on architectural and operational depth in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)—specifically GKE, advanced Networking, Compute, Storage, IAM/Workload Identity Federation, and BigQuery.
• Strong programming capability in Golang and Python dedicated to building internal platform tooling, automation scripts, and scalable microservices.
• Advanced mastery of Terraform for multi-team project management and GitLab for enterprise-grade pipeline design and repository administration. Infrastructure-as-Code & CI/CD
• Proven deployment and fleet management experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, Grafana dashboards, and alerting integrations like PagerDuty.
• Education and Certifications
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.
• Nice to have certifications Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect, Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

Additional Information

• Ability to work on-site 4 days per week at the client location located in, Brampton, Ontario.

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Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.

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