Senior DevOps Engineer (Platform Engineering)

Lotlinx; Winnipeg; On-site; CAD 108,000 - 119,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic tech company in Winnipeg is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the design of their Developer Platform. Candidates should have at least 5 years in DevOps, deep expertise in Kubernetes, and experience with AWS services. The role values automation and developer experience, offering a salary range of CAD 108,000 to CAD 119,000 along with a comprehensive benefits package. Join us in creating a diverse, collaborative work environment focused on innovation.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits package

Career development opportunities

Flex time off

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud native ecosystem tools.
• Strong programming experience with a scripting language.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop centralized platform API to streamline deployments.
• Drive cloud native tooling adoption across the engineering team.
• Participate in the design and management of Kubernetes platform.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

Cloud native systems

Python

DevOps practices

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Helm

AWS

Crossplane

Terraform

Job description

Overview

Winnipeg

Since our founding in 2012, Lotlinx has consistently pioneered advancements in the automotive landscape. We specialize in empowering automobile dealers and manufacturers by providing cutting-edge data and technology, delivering a distinct market advantage for every single vehicle transaction. Today, we stand as the foremost automotive AI and machine learning powered technology, excelling in digital marketing, risk management, and strategic inventory management.

Lotlinx provides employees with a dynamic work environment that is challenging, team-oriented, and full of passionate people. We offer great incentives to our employees, such as competitive compensation and benefits, flex time off, and career development opportunities.

Role Summary

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who combines deep Kubernetes expertise with a passion for cloud native systems and developer experience. This is a high-impact role where you’ll help design and evolve the core Lotlinx Developer Platform — a self-service ecosystem built for speed, consistency, and reliability.

If you love enabling engineers through automation, reusable patterns, and rock-solid platform foundations, this is your opportunity to shape how all of Lotlinx builds and ships software.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and develop our centralized platform API using Python/FastAPI to abstract complex infrastructure workflows, enabling developer self-service for automated deployments and on-demand resource provisioning.
• Drive adoption of cloud native tooling and best practices across the engineering organization — from service meshes to observability stacks.
• Participate in the design and evolution of our Kubernetes platform, managing and optimizing EKS clusters for resilience, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Implement and maintain GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, and Kustomize pipelines to ensure consistent, automated deployments.
• Define golden paths for common service types, enforcing consistency through opinionated, well-documented templates.
• Build reusable Crossplane compositions and templates to empower developers to provision infrastructure via self-service APIs.
• Strengthen the platform’s security posture with Vault, Kyverno, and cloud-native policy enforcement.
• Enhance reliability, traceability, and performance monitoring using the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir).
• Leverage Istio to improve traffic management and observability across microservices.
• Participate in the on-call rotation, ensuring production systems meet strict SLA and uptime expectations.
• Contribute to ongoing modernization and maintenance of Helm-based deployments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes — from cluster scaling and networking to runtime debugging and controller patterns.
• Deep familiarity with the cloud native ecosystem, including tools like ArgoCD, Helm, Vault, Crossplane, Kyverno, and Istio.
• Hands-on experience building or contributing to developer platforms or internal PaaS systems.
• Strong programming experience with a scripting language, especially for automation and platform tooling.
• Solid foundation in infrastructure-as-code with Crossplane, Terraform, or Pulumi.
• Proven success operating production environments with robust SLAs, observability, and proactive reliability engineering.
• Expertise in AWS services including EKS for enterprise-grade container orchestration, IAM for robust identity governance, and Route53 for global traffic steering, underpinned by a deep mastery of EC2 optimization and secure VPC Networking architectures.

Nice to Have

• CKA Certification
• Experience architecting multi-cluster Kubernetes or hybrid cloud deployments.
• Prior work with service mesh and secure network automation.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing infrastructure.
• Enthusiasm for advancing the platform engineering discipline through internal advocacy and documentation.
• A strong sense of ownership and passion for delivering great developer experiences.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $108,000 to $119,000 CAD, with an annual target bonus.

Lotlinx provides a comprehensive benefits package.

Lotlinx is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Lotlinx is not currently able to offer sponsorship for employment visa status.

Lotlinx is headquartered in Peterborough, NH and has locations in Holmdel NJ, Manitoba, Ontario and British Columbia, Canada in addition to a large team spanning from the US to Canada.

Our success relies heavily on our customers but also our dedicated talent that continuously moves our platform forward. We value our employees, their abilities and seek to foster an open, cooperative, dynamic environment where the team and company alike can thrive.