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Senior DevOps Engineer: Data & AI Platform

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5 days ago
Ottawa, CanadaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical quality of the Data & AI Platform’s infrastructure, tooling, and automation from design through delivery and sustainment.
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure as code and platform automation for data pipelines, warehousing, orchestration, and AI/ML workloads.
  • Partner with Data Engineering to translate pipeline, workflow, and system requirements into infrastructure and automation.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and environment tooling for the data platform.
  • Design observability, alerting, and incident-response practices for data platform workloads.
  • Design governance, access, and security policies for data platform infrastructure with security and data engineering stakeholders.
  • Guide Data Engineering on infrastructure and deployment best practices.
  • Contribute to broader DevOps initiatives, shared infrastructure, platform standards, automation, security, reliability, and operational practices.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow, with experience building and operating them at scale.
  • Strong working knowledge of AWS, Terraform, containerization, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD tooling and practices.
  • Experience designing and running observability, alerting, and incident-response practices for data or data-adjacent systems.
  • Strong DevOps expertise applied to data platform systems, including automation, security, reliability, and repeatability.
  • Strong communication and leadership skills focused on collaboration and technical excellence.
  • A learning mindset and interest in emerging DevOps and data infrastructure technologies.
  • Experience with security, compliance, and governance related to data systems is a plus.

Benefits

  • Vacation time that increases with tenure, comprehensive benefits packages, life leave days, and other wellness benefits.
  • Competitive base salary, corporate bonus program, retirement savings options, and other financial benefits.
  • Flexible work options, volunteer days, and opportunities to participate in corporate giving initiatives.
  • Professional development days available from the start of employment.
  • Hybrid work model supporting collaboration across regions.
  • Inclusive workplace practices, employee resource groups, and interview accommodations when needed.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowAWSdbtSnowflakeTerraform

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