1 day ago
Montréal, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes-based infrastructure, platform services, and observability tooling.
- Implement infrastructure as code, configuration management, automated testing, and reusable platform configurations.
- Operate AWS infrastructure across multi-account and multi-region environments, including shared databases, messaging, logging, search, and tenant provisioning services.
- Monitor production systems, troubleshoot operational issues, and improve logging, monitoring, alerting, resiliency, and runbooks.
- Participate in on-call and help desk rotations, incident response, triage, remediation, and post-incident reviews.
- Lead major infrastructure initiatives and proof-of-concept efforts while contributing to technical planning and prioritization.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and development teams to deliver reliable and operable infrastructure solutions.
- Identify and address operability, security, performance, and cost risks, including through security hardening and cost optimization.
- Operate Azure-based acquired products with emphasis on monitoring, alert triage, and runbook-driven incident response.
- Develop and operate AI-assisted tools that improve runbooks, incident response, and operational insights from platform telemetry.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical or demonstrated learning experience.
- 4–6 years of experience in a similar role.
- Hands-on AWS experience in multi-account, multi-region environments, including EKS, AWS Organizations, IAM, and KMS.
- Strong proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code workflows, including Atlantis, GitOps, state management, and module/provider upgrades.
- Production experience running Docker and Kubernetes workloads, including Gateway API ingress, cluster upgrades, addons, and node provisioning.
- Strong Linux systems administration and production troubleshooting experience.
- Proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, or Bash.
- Experience with observability platforms and event-driven alerting tools such as New Relic, OpenSearch, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, Datadog, EventBridge, SNS, or PagerDuty.
- Knowledge of system and network security fundamentals, WAF, least-privilege IAM, secrets management, and backup/disaster recovery.
- Experience with incident management, on-call operations, triage, remediation, post-incident reviews, and operational runbook writing.
- Production experience operating Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL, including migrations, performance tuning, and backup/restore.
- Experience working in Agile environments and delivering iteratively.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills in French and English, including English fluency for working with colleagues, clients, and partners outside Quebec.
- Azure experience, relevant cloud or Kubernetes certifications, cloud cost optimization experience, and experience with Flux, ArgoCD, Karpenter, or Ray/Anyscale GPU infrastructure are assets.
Benefits
- Equity in a well-funded, scaling company.
- Comprehensive health benefits, telemedicine, and lifestyle spending accounts.
- Lifestyle spending accounts, parental leave top-up, and family support programs.
- Wellness Fridays, volunteer time off, flexible vacation, mentorship, career mobility, and promote-from-within opportunities.
- DEIB initiatives and employee-led in-person and virtual events, summits, and social activities.
- Role based in Montreal with a hybrid model requiring two set in-office collaboration days per week.
Tech Stack
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Site Reliability
About AlayaCare
AlayaCare builds a cloud-based platform for home and community care providers, combining clinical documentation, scheduling, billing, client/family portals, and mobile caregiver apps. It sells its software on a SaaS basis to home health, personal care, and IDD agencies across North America and Australia. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Montreal, the company is privately held.