Senior Devops Engineer

Veem; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech company in Canada is seeking a skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to enhance their infrastructure strategy, automation pipelines, and system reliability. This role requires extensive experience with AWS cloud services and CI/CD tools, along with strong scripting abilities in Python. You will collaborate with various teams to ensure high-performing systems while enjoying competitive compensation and benefits, including equity options and a collaborative culture. Join us to drive innovation in a booming financial landscape.

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity packages

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Learning and development budget

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related roles.
• Experience maintaining and deploying highly available systems.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming language in Python.

Responsibilities

• Maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
• Implement security best practices including vulnerability scanning.
• Deploy and maintain applications on cloud-native microservices.

Skills

AWS cloud platform expertise

CI/CD implementation

Scripting in Python

Monitoring tools experience

Infrastructure as Code proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

DynamoDB

Datadog

Job description

Location: Toronto/Ottawa

Department: Engineering

Reports To: SVP/Director of Engineering

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team and take ownership of our infrastructure strategy, automation pipelines, and system reliability. You’ll drive DevOps best practices 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:

• Maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
• Maintain 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
• 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.
• Define SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs for critical services and ensure reliability goals are met.
• Pager duty and on call support for 2 weeks per month

Qualifications:

• 5+ 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!