Sr. DevOps Engineer

Publicis Groupe Canada is the Canadian subsidiary of Publicis Groupe, the second largest communications group in the world and a global leader concentrated within four main activities:
Communication, Mediaa, Data and Technology. Publicis Groupe Canada represents the vision of a set of collaborative and integrated agencies that offer expertise and insightful services to many of the biggest brands in North America.

Canadian brands include:
Publicis Canada (Publicis Canada, Hawkeye, Razorfish, Publicis Health, The Pub Productions , Nurun, Publicis Sports & Entertainment), Publicis Media (Starcom, Spark Foundry, Zenith), Leo Burnett (Leo Burnett Canada, Ove Brand Design, Leo Burnett Design), Saatchi & Saatchi (Saatchi & Saatchi Canada, Synergize, TPM),MSL Canada/North Strategic (North Strategic, MSL Canada, Notch Canada) and Publicis Sapient.

We are looking for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer to design, build, and operate reliable, scalable, and secure cloud-native platforms. This role focuses on enabling high-performing engineering teams through modern Dev Ops practices, automation, and platform engineering.

The role also supports AI/ML and Generative AI workloads, ensuring models and AI services can be deployed, monitored, and scaled safely in production.

You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that solutions align with business objectives, technical requirements, and operational best practices.

• Design, build, and operate highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure.
• Own infrastructure‑as‑code using tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation, or equivalent.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe, and repeatable application deployments.
• Support containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, and managed container platforms.
• Optimize infrastructure for availability, performance, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Implement best practices for networking, compute, storage, and scalability.

• Establish monitoring, alerting, and logging standards using modern observability tools.
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and operational KPIs.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Embed security best practices into pipelines and infrastructure (Dev Sec Ops ).
• Partner with security teams to implement access control, secrets management, and compliance controls.
• Ensure platforms meet enterprise security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Act as a technical mentor for Dev Ops and engineering teams.
• Guide teams through architectural reviews and operational best practices.
• Collaborate with software engineering, architecture, data science, and product teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

• 7+ years of experience in Dev Ops, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Azure cloud platforms.
• Deep experience with CI/CD, infrastructure‑as‑code, and automation.
• Proficiency with Linux, networking concepts, and distributed systems.
• Experience operating production systems at scale.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across teams.
• Experience with Kubernetes platform engineering and cluster operations.
• Familiarity with zero‑trust, identity, or secrets management solutions.

• Previous Martech experience
• Exposure to AI/ML or MLOps environments, including supporting model training, inference, or CI/CD for ML workloads
• Familiarity with Generative AI or LLM platforms (for example, inference services or RAG architectures)

• Location & Eligibility:
  Candidates must be based in the Greater Toronto Area with valid Canadian work authorization of at least 12 months.
• Hybrid Work:
  This role follows a hybrid model with 3 days per week at our Toronto office: 111 Queen St. E, Suite 200, Toronto, ON M5C 1S2.
• Flexibility & Global Mobility:
  Work remotely for up to 6 weeks per year from any of our 50+ global offices through our Work Your World program.
• Compensation:
  The salary range for this position is $90,000–$125,000 per year, based on experience, skills, and relevant certifications. We…