DevOps Engineer – Tech Lead

Location: Montreal

Location:

5 days/week in-office – Montreal, QCOpenings: 1 Category:
Information Technology — Dev Ops / Platform Engineering Engagement:
Full-time (lead, hands-on) Project / Program Overview Venture-backed deep-tech startup building AI and game-streaming software and scaling a global edge-computing platform. The company is tripling headcount within 12 months; this role will build and own the infrastructure foundation that supports that growth. Role Summary A hands-on Dev Ops expert and future team leader to design, scale, and operate cloud-native infrastructure, set engineering standards, and own CI/CD and release practices.

You’ll guide the roadmap and mentor engineers while executing at pace in a startup environment. Key Requirements

Dev Ops SME:
Deep expertise in infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and production operations.

Leadership track:
Expected to evolve into leading the Dev Ops function.

Startup-minded:
Comfortable with ambiguity, rapid iteration, and shifting priorities.

Responsibilities

Build secure, scalable, high-performance cloud-native infrastructure.

Own, optimize, and scale CI/CD pipelines and release engineering.

Define Dev Ops standards; mentor engineers and champion best practices.

Introduce modern tools to increase engineering velocity and platform resilience.

Recommend and define a pragmatic Dev Ops roadmap within 6 months.

Support production deployments and participate in an on-call rotation as needed.

Must-Have Requirements

8+ years in Software/Dev Ops with demonstrated technical leadership.

Linux:
Deep knowledge of internals and performance tuning; strong scripting (Bash, Python).

Kubernetes:
Proven experience operating at scale (designed for millions of users).

CI/CD:
Expert in building and maintaining robust, scalable pipelines (Git Hub Actions/Git Lab CI/Jenkins).

Containers:
Advanced Docker usage and orchestration patterns.

Cloud & IaC: AWS/GCP/Azure plus Terraform/Ansible (or similar).

Observability:
Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK; alerting and SLO-driven ops.

Security:
Dev Sec Ops  best practices, least-privilege, and secrets management.

Nice to Have

Experience with GPU drivers (NVIDIA/AMD) or other performance-sensitive systems.

Ways of Working & Tools

OS/Platform:
Linux, Kubernetes, containers

CI/CD & IaC:
Git Hub Actions / Git Lab CI / Jenkins;
Terraform, Ansible

Cloud: AWS / GCP / Azure (any combination)

Observability:
Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, alerting/on-call

Languages/Scripting:
Bash, Python;
Git workflows (PRs, trunk-based/Git Flow)

Security:
Dev Sec Ops , shift-left testing, secrets management, least-privilege/Zero Trust principles

Contract & Hours

Full-time; standard business hours

On-site role