Principal DevOps Engineer

Veem; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Ontario is seeking a skilled Principal DevOps Engineer to lead their infrastructure strategy and automation processes. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of expertise in AWS cloud services and DevOps best practices. Responsibilities include architecting CI/CD pipelines and mentoring team members. The role offers competitive salary, equity options, and a collaborative environment focused on growth and development.

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity packages

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Learning and development budget

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related roles.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud platform services.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Design AWS cloud infrastructure using IaC tools.
• Lead improvements to system observability and incident response.

Skills

AWS cloud platform

CI/CD tools

Python scripting

Infrastructure as Code

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS services (EC2, EKS, etc.)

Monitoring tools (Datadog, New Relic)

Job description

Location: Toronto/Ottawa
Department: Engineering
Reports To: SVP of Product and Engineering

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team and take ownership of our infrastructure strategy, automation pipelines, and system reliability. As a technical leader, you’ll drive DevOps best practices, mentor team members, and collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and high‑performing systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
• Design and evolve AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
• Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud‑native microservices architecture
• Familiar with migration and tech stack upgrades in AWS
• Lead efforts to improve system observability, monitoring, and incident response
• Partner with development teams to ensure smooth deployments and high availability
• Implement security best practices, including secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance enforcement
• Evaluate and introduce new tools and technologies to optimize performance, scalability, and automation
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior DevOps and SRE team members
• Define SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs for critical services and ensure reliability goals are met

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related roles
• Strong experience AWS cloud platform - IAM, EC2, EKS, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda
• Experience maintaining and deploying highly available, fault‑tolerant systems at scale
• Experience implementing CI/CD using tools like GitHub Actions
• Operational (e.g., HA/Backups) and NoSQL experience (e.g., DynamoDB, Redis)
• Proficiency in scripting or programming language in Python
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog, New Relic
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code – IaC - using Terraform, Pulumi
• Experience with security practices, compliance standards (SOC2, ISO 27001, etc.)
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Equity/stock options
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Learning and development budget
• A collaborative, growth‑oriented engineering culture