DevOps (Team Lead)

Location: 100% Remote (Canada)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Salary Range: $120,000 – $150,000 CAD (base, commensurate with experience)

About the Role

We are supporting a growing technology organization in the search for a DevOps Team Lead / Senior DevOps Engineer to join their Infrastructure team. This is a replacement hire, stepping into an established role with existing systems, processes, and a strong technical foundation already in place.
In this role, you will guide, support, and evolve a DevOps function responsible for the reliability, security, and scalability of cloud-based SaaS environments. You will work closely with development, security, compliance, and support teams to ensure the platform operates smoothly and can scale alongside business growth.  This is a hands-on leadership role with a strong emphasis on automation, collaboration, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support a DevOps function within a multidisciplinary infrastructure and security team
• Design, plan, and coordinate infrastructure initiatives, including upgrades, migrations, and new technology implementations
• Partner closely with software development teams to adapt infrastructure practices to evolving product needs
• Improve CI/CD pipelines through enhanced automation and GitOps practices
• Manage and execute deployments across cloud environments
• Strengthen monitoring, observability, and alerting to proactively identify performance and security issues
• Continuously improve system stability, scalability, and cost visibility
• Collaborate cross-functionally with development, security, compliance, and support stakeholders
• Contribute to technical documentation, architecture reviews, and internal knowledge sharing

What We’re Looking For

• Strong experience in a DevOps or Infrastructure role within a SaaS or cloud-based environment
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and containerized workloads
• Experience deploying and supporting SaaS platforms in a public cloud environment (Azure preferred)
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi preferred; Terraform or similar also considered)
• Experience with GitOps and deployment orchestration tools (e.g., ArgoCD or equivalent)
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture, networking, security, and scalability concepts
• Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Leadership mindset with the ability to align teams toward shared technical goals
• Comfortable working in English; bilingual French/English is a strong asset

This role is a replacement.