Senior DevOps Engineer/Linkerd

Motion Recruitment; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Vacation Time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Ottawa, Canada. This role involves taking ownership of the cloud platform and infrastructure, enhancing strategy, reliability, and scalability predominantly with AWS and Kubernetes.

The successful candidate will collaborate with development teams, drive operational excellence, and leverage a variety of technologies including Terraform and GitLab. A strong emphasis on automation and platform engineering is required. Benefits include health insurance and vacation time.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise with AWS services such as EKS, EC2, RDS, and CloudFront.
• Advanced production experience designing, operating, and scaling Kubernetes environments.
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Hands-On Engineering: 75% of the role.
• Team Collaboration & Cross-Functional Work: 25% of the role.

Skills

AWS services (EKS, EC2, RDS, CloudFront)

Kubernetes design and operation

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Building and maintaining Kubernetes Operators

Golang or Python

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

Automation scripting

Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)

Cloud security architecture

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitLab

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

CloudWatch

Helm

Cloudflare

Job description

A high-growth SaaS organization operating at global scale is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to take ownership of its cloud platform and infrastructure ecosystem from end to end. Supporting a platform that powers millions of customer interactions, this role will be responsible for driving the strategy, reliability, scalability, observability, and continuous evolution of the organization's Kubernetes and AWS environments. You will work across the full platform lifecycle, influencing architecture, automation, operational excellence, and engineering standards while partnering closely with development and product teams.

The environment leverages AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab, ArgoCD, and a broad observability stack, with a strong emphasis on automation, platform engineering, and operational resilience.

Required Skills & Experience

• Deep expertise with AWS services such as EKS, EC2, RDS, and CloudFront.
• Advanced production experience designing, operating, and scaling Kubernetes environments, combined with strong Infrastructure as Code expertise using Terraform.
• Demonstrated hands‑on experience building and maintaining Kubernetes Operators from the ground up using Golang or Python, alongside strong proficiency with GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Helm, and automation scripting.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Observability and monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and CloudWatch, including alerting, anomaly detection, and platform health analysis.
• Experience with service mesh technologies, traffic routing, DNS management, edge networking, and content delivery platforms such as Linkerd and Cloudflare.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security architecture, IAM governance, incident response leadership, and cloud cost optimization methodologies.

Daily Responsibilities

• Hands‑On Engineering: 75%
• Team Collaboration & Cross‑Functional Work: 25%

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Vacation Time

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.