Staff DevOps Engineer

Punt; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the gaming industry is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to enhance its DevOps culture and practices. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in AWS services, infrastructure management, and leading teams to ensure operational excellence. This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on technical responsibilities, providing an opportunity to drive innovation and scalability in a rapidly growing company.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits package

Opportunities for continuous learning and professional growth

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading DevOps teams in cloud environments.
• Expertise in AWS and building CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong security-first mindset.

Responsibilities

• Champion DevOps principles and build a high-performing team.
• Own AWS infrastructure and ensure its security and efficiency.
• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.

Skills

DevOps Leadership

AWS Services

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD Pipelines

Security Mindset

Excellent Communication

Job description

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Experience Level: Senior (8+ years of experience)

About Diamond Interactive:

Diamond Interactive is a fast-growing technology company and the creator of a market-leading online social gaming platform. Our mission is to become the world's largest gaming company by delivering cutting-edge technology and unparalleled user experiences.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Principle DevOps Engineer to take full ownership of our DevOps function and guide the organization toward a strong DevOps culture. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure and deployment systems across our AWS environment.

This role is both strategic and hands-on — ideal for someone who can build and lead a high-performing DevOps team, establish best practices, and ensure the reliability, security, and efficiency of our development and operations workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• DevOps Leadership: Champion DevOps principles and best practices across engineering, product, and operations teams. Serve as the organization’s subject matter expert in DevOps.
• Infrastructure Ownership: Take complete ownership of our AWS infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and cost-efficiency. Manage cloud resources through Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• CI/CD Pipelines: Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions (or similar) to streamline build, test, and deployment workflows across multiple environments.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Lead the adoption and implementation of IaC using AWS CDK to manage infrastructure across all environments.
• Monitoring & Incident Response: Implement observability tools and establish incident response playbooks to ensure reliability and fast recovery during outages or incidents.
• Security & Compliance: Collaborate with security teams to ensure infrastructure meets compliance and security best practices, including least-privilege IAM, audit logging, and secrets management.
• Team Building: Recruit, mentor, and manage a growing DevOps team. Define the team’s charter and help set a vision for scalable infrastructure and deployment practices.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience leading and building DevOps or platform engineering teams in a cloud-first environment.
• Expert level experience with AWS services, architecture patterns, and cost optimization with a proven track record of supporting high-traffic, real-time web applications..
• Expert level experience with Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK.
• Expert Level understanding of GitHub, including GitHub Actions, branching strategies, and secure secret management.
• Experience designing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for modern applications (monoliths and microservices).
• A strong security-first mindset with familiarity in implementing controls for cloud-native applications.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a passion for empowering developers and cross-functional teams.

Note: Our IaC is written in TypeScript using AWS Cloud Deployment Kit (CDK). If you don't have a min of 5 years experience with CDK please do not apply for this position.

Preferred Skills & Nice-to-Have Experience:

At least one of the following skills:

• Previous Experience with PHP / Laravel or Next.js
• Previous Experience with New Relic and Sentry
• Previous Experience implementing a DevSecOps Pipeline to ensure Security Best Practices are enforced.

What We’re Looking For:

• Strategic Thinker: Ability to design and implement scalable systems while considering long-term growth and performance.
• Problem Solver: Proactively identify and resolve issues, ensuring high availability and uptime.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a rapidly growing company!
• Play a strategic role in a collaborative, innovative team
• Work with cutting-edge technology in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
• Be part of a passionate and talented team driving innovation in the gaming industry.
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
• Opportunities for continuous learning, professional growth, and leadership

If you’re passionate about building scalable, impactful solutions and enjoy leading architectural direction, apply now to join Diamond Interactive and help shape the future of our products!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Computer Games

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