Senior DevOps Engineer

Medium; Toronto (OH); On-site; USD 85,311 - 99,530; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Downtown Toronto office

Growth & Learning resources

Job summary

ShyftLabs is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and advance cloud infrastructure, CI/CD and operations across multiple projects. You will build automation, drive reliability, and mentor engineers while partnering with product teams to deliver scalable, resilient systems.

The role demands hands-on expertise with AWS (EKS, Lambda, API Gateway), Terraform, and CI/CD tooling. A hybrid work model with a Toronto office is offered to accelerate delivery and growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on DevOps engineering.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers or owning technical direction.
• Expertise in AWS EKS, GitLab CI/CD, and Terraform.
• Hands-on AWS across Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, ECS, Kinesis, Kafka.
• Fluent with Bash/Python and automation tooling.
• Strong microservices, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS), and IaC.
• Proven ability to architect and scale infrastructure across clouds.
• Knowledge of Elasticsearch and log aggregation.
• Strong documentation and communication of decisions.
• Self-starter who ships working solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own design, build, and operation of cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for production, QA, and development.
• Write automation, IaC, and tooling to reduce manual work.
• Own reliability, troubleshoot scalability and performance in live systems.
• Build and maintain fast, stable CI/CD pipelines with automated testing.
• Set up monitoring, dashboards, alerting, and log aggregation.
• Collaborate with developers to smooth deployments and guide operations.
• Define DevOps direction and drive adoption with working systems.
• Mentor engineers and raise the team’s capability with hands-on guidance.
• Shape team structure and coordinate with engineering and customers to stay on track.
• Evaluate new tools and proven them in real systems.

Skills

AWS EKS

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Lambda

API Gateway

CloudWatch

ECS

Kinesis

Kafka

Bash

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

IaC

Elasticsearch

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

About ShyftLabs

ShyftLabs is a fast-growing data and technology company that partners with Fortune 500 and enterprise organizations to solve complex business challenges through cloud, AI, data engineering, and modern software solutions. We foster a collaborative, innovation-driven culture where talented professionals work on impactful initiatives that drive measurable business outcomes.

The Opportunity

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who is deeply hands-on and ready to lead from the front. You'll own complex infrastructure across multiple internal projects, set the technical direction for DevOps, and be the person the team leans on to get things working in production. This is a role for a doer who leads by building, someone equally comfortable with their hands in Terraform, a broken deploy at 2 a.m., or guiding a small team toward the right technical call. You set the standard through your own work and lift the people around you while doing it.

What You'll Be Doing

• Personally design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and underlying platform that our production, QA, and development environments run on.
• Write the automation, IaC, and tooling yourself, including Terraform modules, deployment scripts, and glue code that removes manual work for the whole team.
• Own reliability directly. Troubleshoot and resolve scalability, availability, and performance issues in live systems, catching and fixing problems before they reach customers.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, keeping them fast, stable, and efficient, and integrate automated testing into them.
• Stand up monitoring, dashboards, alerting, and log aggregation, then act on what they tell you.
• Get hands-on with application developers to make deployments seamless, pairing on issues rather than just handing off runbooks.
• Set technical direction for DevOps and drive it to adoption, making the architectural calls and defending them with working systems.
• Mentor and grow the engineers around you by reviewing work, unblocking teammates, and raising the bar through hands-on guidance rather than distance.
• Help shape team structure and priorities, and coordinate closely across engineering and with customers to keep delivery on track.
• Evaluate and roll out new tools, technologies, and processes, proving them out in real systems rather than in slide decks.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of hands-on DevOps engineering, with a track record of things you personally built and shipped.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers, or owning the technical direction of a team or major project.
• Deep, practical expertise in AWS EKS, GitLab CI/CD, and Terraform. You've operated these in production, not just touched them.
• Extensive hands-on AWS experience across Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, ECS, Kinesis, and Kafka.
• Fluent on the command line (Bash, Python) and comfortable writing your own automation and tooling.
• Strong grasp of microservices architecture, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS), and IaC methodology.
• Proven ability to architect and scale infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms.
• Working knowledge of Elasticsearch and log aggregation.
• Excellent at documenting your own work clearly, and communicating decisions to both engineers and customers.
• A self-starter and closer, someone who takes ambiguous problems and returns working, shipped solutions, and brings a team along with them.

Salary Range

• $120,000 - $140,000 (CAD)

Why You’ll Love Working at ShyftLabs

At ShyftLabs, your work matters. We're a growing data product company making a big impact with Fortune 500 clients and as we scale, you'll have the chance to shape solutions, influence strategy, and grow your career alongside us.

Here's what you can expect when you join our team:

• -Hybrid Flexibility:Enjoy a hybrid model with three days per week in our Toronto office.
• -Downtown Toronto Office:Work in the heart of the city.
• -Growth & Learning:Access extensive learning and development resources to keep leveling up your skills.

Inclusion at ShyftLabs

We're building something big, and we want you on the journey with us.

ShyftLabs is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a safe, diverse, and inclusive environment. We encourage applicants of all backgrounds including ethnicity, religion, disability status, gender identity, sexual orientation, family status, age, and nationality to apply. If you require accommodation during the interview process, let us know and we'll be happy to support you.