Senior DevOps Engineer

Deep Genomics; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Deep Genomics, a leading company in AI-driven drug discovery, is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Toronto. The role focuses on building and optimizing infrastructure for machine learning models and software applications, requiring extensive experience in DevOps practices, cloud environments, and team collaboration. Join an innovative team dedicated to transforming drug development.

Benefits

Competitive compensation with stock options

Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage

Flexible work environment with extended long weekends

Learning and development budget

Maternity and parental leave top-up

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working as DevOps/MLOps engineer or similar.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and Helm.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. CircleCI) and mentoring team members.

Responsibilities

• Manage infrastructure for software and ML platforms in cloud and on-premises.
• Design and implement integrations for seamless data flow.
• Streamline operational tasks like infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code

Containerization

CI/CD

Security Best Practices

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

About Us

Deep Genomics is at the forefront of using artificial intelligence to transform drug discovery. Our cutting-edge AI platform decodes the complexity of RNA biology to identify novel drug targets, mechanisms, and therapeutics inaccessible through traditional methods. With expertise spanning machine learning, bioinformatics, data science, engineering, and drug development, our multidisciplinary team in Toronto and Cambridge, MA is revolutionizing how new medicines are created.

Where You Fit In

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in building, scaling, and optimizing the infrastructure and tooling that empowers our diverse scientific and engineering teams. You will enable seamless development of our sophisticated ML models, software applications, and data pipelines. Through close collaboration with teams across engineering, machine learning, and biology, you’ll help push the boundaries of drug discovery through thoughtfully engineered systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage infrastructure for software, data, and ML platforms, both in the cloud and our on-premises GPU clusters.
• Design and implement integrations between infrastructure components (containing internal and 3rd party systems) to ensure seamless flow of data in a robust, reliable, and secure manner.
• Streamline and/or automate operational tasks such as infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment.
• Implement and manage robust monitoring, logging, and alerting for key infrastructure components.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, security, and compliance teams to implement and promote DevSecOps principles across the organization.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working as a DevOps/MLOps engineer, SRE, or infrastructure engineer.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform and Helm) in public cloud environments.
• Deep expertise in containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of identity management and security best practices.
• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. CircleCI).
• Demonstrated experience with mentoring and elevating other team members' skills to adhere to DevOps best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Python/Shell scripting and automation tools.
• Hands-on experience with modern ML platforms and frameworks (e.g. Weights & Biases, Metaflow, MLflow, Ray) and familiarity with the operational challenges of scaling ML workloads.
• Experience designing and operating hybrid-cloud architectures that span on-premises and cloud environments, with an emphasis on resilience, observability, and cost optimization.
• Familiarity with secrets management, zero-trust architectures, and secure-by-default design patterns in regulated or privacy-sensitive environments.

What we offer

• A collaborative and innovative environment at the frontier of computational biology, machine learning, and drug discovery.
• Highly competitive compensation, including meaningful stock ownership.
• Comprehensive benefits - including health, vision, and dental coverage for employees and families, employee and family assistance program.
• Flexible work environment - including flexible hours, extended long weekends, holiday shutdown, unlimited personal days.
• Maternity and parental leave top-up coverage, as well as new parent paid time off.
• Focus on learning and growth for all employees - learning and development budget & lunch and learns.
• Facilities located in the heart of Toronto - the epicenter of machine learning and AI research and development, and in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Mass. - a global center of biotechnology and life sciences.

Deep Genomics welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Deep Genomics thanks all applicants, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.