Senior DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes team) New

StackAdapt Inc.; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly competitive salary

Health benefits from day one of employ

Work from home reimbursements

WeWork hubs in London and Toronto (opt

Robust training & onboarding

Parental leave & career development

Job summary

StackAdapt Inc. is seeking an experienced DevOps/SRE professional to own and enhance our AWS infrastructure, driving reliability and scalable platform practices. You’ll build shared services, implement IaC with Terraform, and improve observability across distributed systems.

You will collaborate with engineering teams to design resilient architectures, while managing deployments in cloud and Kubernetes environments. A strong background in incident response and production operations is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure, or Platform Engineering.
• Strong experience operating AWS infrastructure in production.
• Hands-on Terraform and IaC workflows at scale.
• Significant experience with Kubernetes—owning internal deployment pipelines and node management.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience supporting reliability, incident response, and production operations.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve shared infrastructure and platform services.
• Own and optimize AWS services used across engineering.
• Develop and manage infrastructure as code workflows, primarily with Terraform and Terrateam.
• Support reliable, secure deployments across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
• Improve observability through metrics, logs, and tracing.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and service issues in distributed systems.
• Establish infrastructure standards, documentation, and operational practices.
• Partner with engineering teams on resilient, scalable system design.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Observability

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Terrateam

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Canada

StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.

The Engineering Operations team builds and operates the infrastructure, observability, and automation systems that power our engineering environment. This role focuses on owning and improving AWS infrastructure, with an emphasis on infrastructure as code, operational reliability, and scalable platform practices across distributed systems.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Build, maintain, and improve shared infrastructure and platform services.
• Own and optimize AWS services used across engineering.
• Develop and manage infrastructure as code workflows, primarily with Terraform and Terrateam.
• Support reliable, secure deployments across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
• Improve observability through metrics, logs, and tracing.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and service issues in distributed systems.
• Establish infrastructure standards, documentation, and operational practices.
• Partner with engineering teams on resilient, scalable system design.

What You'll Bring to the Table:

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure, or Platform Engineering.
• Strong experience operating AWS infrastructure in production.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and IaC workflows at scale.
• Significant experience with Kubernetes - owning the internal deployment pipelines, node management, etc
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience supporting reliability, incident response, and production operations.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Terrateam, Ansible, Vault, Consul, ArgoCD, Prometheus/Grafana, Packer, Redis, and GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with AWS networking concepts such as VPCs, routing, load balancers, and security groups.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure automation.

The compensation range listed for this role reflects the expected base salary for candidates located in the posting country based on a global rate. It is informed by market data and the approved budget for this position. StackAdapt maintains different compensation ranges for roles across other countries and regions, and final offers will be aligned to the candidate’s current location. We do not ask candidates about current or prior salary history, and we will not use such information, if volunteered, in setting an offer.

This range represents base salary only. Depending on the role, candidates may also be eligible for additional compensation such as annual bonuses, commissions, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits package.

• The final compensation offer will be determined by a variety of factors, which may include, but are not limited to: the candidate's specific experience, technical skills, knowledge, abilities, and relevant education, licensure, and certifications.
• Other business factors, such as organizational needs and budget alignment, may also be considered in the final offer.

Base Salary Band

$140,000 - $192,500 CAD

StackAdapter's Enjoy

• Highly competitive salary
• Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
• Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
• Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
• Health benefits from day one of employment
• Work from home reimbursements
• Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
• Robust training and onboarding program
• Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
• Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
• An awesome parental leave program
• A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
• Our social and team events!

Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.

StackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are, where you are from, who you love, follow in faith, disability, superpower status, ethnicity, or the gender you identify with (if you're comfortable, let us know your pronouns), you are welcome at StackAdapt.

StackAdapt is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If you require an accommodation, please let us know.

We use artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the resume reviews of candidates and assess their fit based on the criteria outlined in the job posting. We do not use AI to make any final hiring or interview decisions.

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