Staff SRE — Cloud Reliability for Energy Systems

Motion Recruitment; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Vacation Time

Current Vacancy: Yes

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to own cloud platforms supporting large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure and autonomous operations. The role offers significant influence over architecture, automation, security, and platform strategy across AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, and observability tools.

You will shape infrastructure supporting AI workloads and real-time data processing, with opportunities to solve complex engineering challenges and influence long-term

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and operating highly available production systems with a strong background in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, and designing scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions, container orchestration and deployments using Helm, and production observability through OpenTelemetry and Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on engineering majority of time (approx. 75%).
• Collaborate with teams across functions to drive architecture, automation, security, and platform strategy.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Platform engineering

CI/CD automation

Cloud architecture

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Helm

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Kafka

AWS MSK

Databricks

Python

Node.js

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to own cloud platforms supporting large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure and autonomous operations. The role offers significant influence over architecture, automation, security, and platform strategy across AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, and observability tools.

You will shape infrastructure supporting AI workloads and real-time data processing, with opportunities to solve complex engineering challenges and influence long-term