Senior DevOps Engineer

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

Job summary

A financial technology company in Canada is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer. This role involves maintaining CI/CD pipelines and AWS infrastructure management, focusing on automation and system reliability. The ideal candidate should have over 5 years of DevOps experience, a strong AWS background, and proficiency in scripting, ideally Python. They offer competitive salary, equity options, and a collaborative culture. Join us to innovate in the booming financial services sector.

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity packages

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Learning and development budget

Growth-oriented engineering culture

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related roles.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud platform including IAM, EC2, EKS.
• Experience maintaining and deploying highly available systems.
• Proven track record in implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Operational experience with NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB.
• Proficiency in a programming language, preferably Python.
• Experience in security practices and compliance standards.

Responsibilities

• Maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
• Manage AWS infrastructure using IaC tools.
• Deploy and maintain applications on cloud-native architectures.
• Improve system observability and incident response.
• Partner with teams to ensure high availability.

Skills

DevOps experience

AWS expertise

CI/CD tools experience

Scripting in Python

Monitoring tools

Infrastructure as Code

Security practices

Excellent communication skills

Leadership skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Datadog

New Relic

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!