Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description:
Senior DevOps Engineer
Contract - Mexico, Canada

Role Overview

We are looking for an experiencedSenior DevOps Engineer who can takeend-to-end ownership of DevOps, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, and operational reliability for applications and environments.

The ideal candidate should be hands-on, capable of working independently across the DevOps lifecycle, and able to collaborate closely with Development, QA, Architecture, Security, and Operations teams to buildsecure, scalable, automated, and reliable platforms and deployment processes.

Experience

1. 6+ years of experience inDevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.
2. Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms such asAWS, Azure, or GCP.
3. Experience designing, implementing, and maintainingCI/CD pipelines for enterprise applications.
4. Experience withInfrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated infrastructure provisioning.
5. Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such asDocker and Kubernetes.
6. Experience managing production environments and troubleshooting complex deployment, infrastructure, and application issues.

Must-Have Skills

• Strong expertise inCI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or equivalent.
• Strong cloud experience withAWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Hands-on experience withDocker and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge ofInfrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Experience with scripting usingPython, Bash, PowerShell, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of Git and branching/release strategies.
• Experience with Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts including DNS, load balancers, firewalls, SSL/TLS, and connectivity.
• Experience with application and infrastructuremonitoring, logging, alerting, and observability.
• Understanding of DevSecOps practices, secrets management, access controls, and vulnerability management.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and root-cause analysis skills.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience withHelm and Kubernetes package/deployment management.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Knowledge of microservices and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with monitoring platforms such asDatadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, or ELK.
• Exposure to service mesh and API gateway technologies.
• Understanding of database deployment and migration processes.
• Experience implementing disaster recovery, backup, high availability, and business continuity solutions.
• Familiarity with SRE practices, SLIs/SLOs, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Relevant cloud, Kubernetes, or DevOps certifications are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Takeend-to-end ownership of DevOps and deployment processes across development, QA, staging, and production environments.
• Design, build, maintain, and continuously improveCI/CD pipelines to enable reliable and automated application delivery.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure usingInfrastructure as Code and automation.
• Manage containerized workloads and Kubernetes environments.
• Automate repetitive infrastructure, deployment, configuration, and operational activities.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve build, release, and deployment processes.
• Establish and maintain effectivemonitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across applications and infrastructure.
• Ensure infrastructure and deployment processes follow appropriatesecurity, scalability, availability, and reliability practices.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, deployment, networking, and production issues and drive root-cause resolution.
• Implement appropriate backup, recovery, high-availability, and disaster-recovery practices.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, availability, capacity, and cloud resource utilization.
• Identify opportunities to improvecloud cost efficiency and resource optimization.
• Conduct technical reviews and guide development teams on DevOps and cloud best practices.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and deployment/runbook documentation.
• Continuously improve platform stability, deployment efficiency, security, automation, and developer experience.

Key Expectation: This is ahands-on Senior DevOps Engineering role with end-to-end ownership. The candidate should be capable of independently managing the DevOps ecosystem, driving automation, supporting application teams, troubleshooting production issues, and ensuring that applications can bebuilt, deployed, monitored, scaled, and operated reliably and securely.

Information Security Responsibilities

• Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols
• Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
• Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
• Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information