Principal DevOps Engineer

Veem; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic FinTech company in Toronto is looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer to drive best practices in automation and system reliability. You will architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines, oversee AWS infrastructure using IaC, and provide mentorship within an agile engineering team. This position calls for at least 8 years of experience in DevOps and strong knowledge in cloud technologies. Competitive salary, equity options, and a growth-oriented culture await you.

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.
• Experience maintaining highly available, fault-tolerant systems.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming language in Python.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Design and evolve AWS cloud infrastructure using IaC tools.
• Lead efforts to improve system observability and incident response.

Skills

AWS cloud platform (IAM, EC2, EKS, etc.)

CI/CD using GitHub Actions

Scripting in Python

Monitoring tools (Datadog, New Relic)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi)

Security practices

Excellent communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

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.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and has a strong technical background in modern technologies.

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

Why Join Us:

We are committed to driving innovation in FinTech.

We have disruptive technology and will continue to build new products with this in mind.

We are in a growth industry.

The global financial services world is booming and projections are that the boom will grow.

We reward hard work and initiative

Everyone at Veem is eligible for a bonus to reward you for your effort and contributions.

We are growing and will continue to grow.

If you want your career to grow, this is the place to be.

You want to explore new ways of doing things.

You want to build on your use of AI on the job? Bring it on! So do we!

3 words…Initial Public Offering.

Our goal is to go public and we are offering our valued employees options packages when they join Veem. This is your opportunity to potentially hit it big!