Senior DevOps Engineer/Downtown Toronto

Motion Recruitment; Toronto; On-site; CAD 123,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in staffing and recruiting seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Toronto. This role focuses on cloud infrastructure, emphasizing automation and scaling high-traffic environments, requiring extensive experience with AWS and Kubernetes. The ideal candidate will thrive in evolving systems and ensure reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps/SRE roles focused on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Expertise in Terraform and Helm for provisioning.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitOps tools like ArgoCD.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on work with 75% of time allocated to practical tasks.
• 25% dedicated to team collaboration and strategic initiatives.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

CI/CD automation

GitOps

Job description

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Manager, Talent Services at Motion Recruitment-- DevOps, Infrastructure, and Cloud across the Atlanta Metro, the GTA, and North America

Are you a systems thinker who thrives on automation, infrastructure design, and scaling high-traffic cloud environments? We're seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help architect and evolve the backbone of a platform serving millions of users globally

You’ll be part of a small, high-impact team responsible for every layer of the platform stack: from how our Kubernetes clusters operate, to how we monitor, deploy, and recover in real time.

This is a highly autonomous role where your decisions directly shape how we scale, ship, and secure software. If you’ve got a passion for cloud infrastructure, GitOps best practices, and building reliable systems at scale, we want to hear from you.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years in DevOps/SRE roles, with deep AWS and Kubernetes knowledge
• Terraform and Helm mastery for infrastructure provisioning
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD automation, GitOps (ArgoCD), and cloud-native tools
  
  

Extensive recent AWS services projects

Desired Skills & Experience

• Hands-on experience with tools like Kafka, Redis, or other high-throughput caching and event streaming systems.
• Working knowledge of compliance standards such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 and how they apply to infrastructure practices.
• Proven success driving DevOps initiatives in rapidly growing SaaS environments.
  
  

What You Will Be Doing

Daily Responsibilities

• 75% Hands On
• 25% Team Collaboration
  
  

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in Canada on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

Posted By: Adrian Cronk

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Staffing and Recruiting

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