Senior DevOps Engineer

ZayZoon; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial wellness startup in Calgary is seeking a DevOps Engineer to handle AWS infrastructure and automate deployments. You will collaborate across teams to ensure high performance and security while following best DevOps practices. The ideal candidate will have extensive cloud experience, automation skills, and a passion for improving systems. This role is fully remote with flexible time off and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Permanently remote work

Flexible time off up to 6 weeks

Instant medical, vision, and dental benefits

Inclusive parental leave top-up

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering in AWS or GCP.
• 3+ years of experience with a high-level programming language like Python.
• Knowledge of Bash and SQL is essential.

Responsibilities

• Own and scale AWS infrastructure for reliability.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with CloudFormation.
• Optimize PostgreSQL databases for high availability.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure engineering

Python or equivalent high level language

Bash & Structured Query Language (SQL)

CI/CD pipelines

CloudFormation

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Job description

Who we are:

At ZayZoon, we are on a mission to save 10 million hardworking employees 10 billion dollars. We’ve created a financial empowerment platform that helps businesses of all sizes make a big impact on employee financial wellness.

We offer a variety of financial wellness services, like earned wage access, that allows employees to access their earned wages ahead of payday. With 74% of ZayZoon customers reporting reduced financial stress, we know our solutions help lead to happier and more productive employees.

ZayZoon was also recognized for its growth in the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, and top-10 growth companies in Canada by CIX awards. Our recent funding extension has raised our Series B funding round to nearly $50 million USD 🎉

Join us in shaping the future of employee financial wellness and building services that address the immediate needs of today's employees.

About the role:

We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer who loves ownership, automation, and impact to directly power a fast-growing product. In this role, you’ll design resilient, high-performing systems and raise the bar on reliability, security, and observability across the platform.

You’ll work at the intersection of engineering, data, testing, and security, partnering closely with teams streamline deployments, strengthen compliance, and respond decisively to critical issues when they matter most. From building CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code to applying best-in-class DevOps practices, you’ll have the autonomy to shape how we build and operate in the cloud. If you’re energized by solving complex problems, improving systems end-to-end, and leaving things better than you found them, this is a role where your work will truly make a difference.

What you’ll do:

• Own and scale ZayZoon’s AWS infrastructure to ensure reliability, performance, and security.
• Design and automate infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation, build CI/CD pipelines and manage existing infrastructure stacks.
• Optimize our PostgreSQL databases for high availability and performance.
• Improve monitoring and observability when possible, ensuring detection and a proactive resolution of issues.
• Designing secure (SOC-2 and cybersecurity compliance), scalable cloud services in AWS.
• Evaluate and remediate Critical and High CVEs across all our services on a moment’s notice.
• Work cross-functionally across multiple teams such as development, data, testing, and security to convey concepts and build understanding as well as improve deployment processes.
• Apply DevOps best practices in everything you do - there are many ways to do things, and you bring the best of them to our environment.

You bring:

• 5+ years of cloud infrastructure engineering experience in AWS or GCP.
• 3+ years of experience with Python or equivalent high level language (Go, Ruby, etc).
• Knowledge of Bash & Structured Query Language (SQL).
• Experience with CloudFormation to provision and maintain infrastructure, or experience in other IaC tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or equivalent.
• Experience with CloudWatch and Elastic Container Services (ECS) running on Fargate, with CodePipeline and native deployments.
• Experience building efficient CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or an equivalent.
• Ability to deep dive into CloudWatch, CloudTrail logging and other logging tooling, such as Athena, to get to the bottom of a problem.
• Experience migrating compute from Intel to ARM architecture.

Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of listed criteria, women and other marginalized folks tend to only apply when they check every box. Think you have what it takes, but not sure you check every box? Apply to the role anyways. We’d love to talk and determine together whether you could be a great fit!

Why you’ll love working at ZayZoon:

• Permanently Remote: Work from a desk, a coffee shop, or in the great outdoors - our jobs are fully remote, forever
• Flexible Time Off: Whether it's a longer vacation to explore new horizons, a series of short breaks for regular rejuvenation, or stepping away for a new level of mastery in a skillset – our “You-do-You” time off program caters to the diverse and evolving lifestyles of our team with a maximum of 6 weeks vacation
• Instant Benefits: All full-time employees get access to medical, vision, and dental benefits from their very first day including increased mental health coverage and a wellness stipend
• Plus: Inclusive parental leave top-up, earned wage access, real time market data for salaries, a supportive culture for lifelong learners and more

A quick note on compensation: We care a lot about employee experience and pay is a big part of that. We’re currently on a journey toward internal pay transparency, with that work wrapping up by the end of Q1. We’re focused on doing this thoughtfully, starting with the people who make ZayZoon what it is. Being more transparent with folks outside the company than with our own team wouldn’t feel right so we’re intentionally completing this important internal work first. In the meantime, we’re always happy to share more about our compensation philosophy and what you can expect as part of our hiring process!

What you can expect from us:

Every application will be reviewed by our team - we’re committed to giving each application the attention it deserves because we know how important this step is for you. We want to make sure you’re always in the loop and will respond to every application.

So go ahead and hit that apply button with confidence, knowing that we’re here for you every step of the way! We can't wait to hear from you.

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