Devops jobs in Canada

Sony Pictures Imageworks is located on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. We are committed to respecting traditional lands, and working with communities towards reconciliation.

Sony Pictures Imageworks Canada Inc.

Project based, Full Time

Language in work environment - English

Benefits per company policy: include healthcare, tuition reimbursement, RRSP's, Sick and Vacation leave, standard increases as applicable

We are seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to join our technology team supporting global content production, post-production, and distribution workflows. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cloud infrastructure automation, scalable deployment architectures, and Kubernetes cluster management. You will be working closely with our engineering, media operations, and security teams to ensure our platforms can scale dynamically to meet the needs of high-traffic media pipelines and digital distribution systems.

• Bachelor’s degree, with a preference for Computer Science, Engineering or other technical degree.

• Manage and optimize multi-cluster Kubernetes environments across AWS, GCP, orAzure.
• Implement autoscaling policies and node management strategies for high-availabilityworkloads.
• Maintain service mesh configurations (e.g., Istio or Linkerd) and monitor cluster health.
• Design and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) with Terraform, Helm, orCloudFormation.
• Build and manage automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLabCI.
• Implement and optimize horizontal/vertical scaling for microservices and API workloads.
• Support serverless and hybrid-cloud architectures where applicable.
• Automate routine operational tasks, deployments, and environment provisioning.
• Set up and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using tools like Zabbix,Grafana, Pagerduty, ELK, or Datadog.
• Continuously improve system reliability and deployment velocity.
• Partner with development teams to containerize applications and ensure productionreadiness.
• Collaborate with security teams to enforce compliance, patch management, and secretshandling (Vault, AWS KMS, etc.).
• Participate in on-call rotations and post-incident reviews.

• 3–6 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Cloud Engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production.
• Proficiency in one or more public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Helm, or Ansible).
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or Go).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and CI/CD tooling.
• Experience supporting high-throughput or media-intensive workloads.
• Knowledge of CDN integration, data pipelines, or transcoding workflows.
• Familiarity with cost optimization and cloud performance tuning.
• Exposure to zero-downtime deployment strategies and GitOps practices (ArgoCD, Flux).
• Certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or cloud-specific equivalents.

• You will establish a clear understanding of the company's vision, goals and strategy andactively contribute to the achievement of the goals and execution of the strategy
• You will be a leader in the organization, responsible for both setting the standards forproject management and holding the organization accountable to the standards set
• You are results-oriented with a history of consistently meeting deadlines
• You possess a proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
• You possess excellent written and spoken technical English, as well as strong documentation skills
• You are capable of working with distributed teams across software, infrastructure, andcontent delivery, in a fast-paced, production-oriented environment

• Vancouver / Hybrid — occasional on-site collaboration with studio technology andproduction teams.

The anticipated base salary for this position is $50.10 to $69.71/hr. This role may also qualify for annual incentive and/or comprehensive benefits per company policy: including healthcare, tuition reimbursement, RRSP's, sick and vacation leave, standard increases as applicable. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of factors, including without limitation, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and if applicable, the location of the position.

We value unique perspectives, and want diverse, unique talent to work with us. We encourage candidates from all identities to apply.

Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.