Location: Toronto/Ottawa
Department: Engineering
Reports To: SVP of Product and Engineering
About the Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team and take ownership of our infrastructure strategy, automation pipelines, and system reliability. As a technical leader, you’ll drive DevOps best practices, mentor team members, and collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and high-performing systems.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and has a strong technical background in modern technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
Architect, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
Design and evolve AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture
Familiar with migration and tech stack upgrades in AWS
Lead efforts to improve system observability, monitoring, and incident response.
Partner with development teams to ensure smooth deployments and high availability.
Implement security best practices, including secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance enforcement.
Evaluate and introduce new tools and technologies to optimize performance, scalability, and automation.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior DevOps and SRE team members.
Define SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs for critical services and ensure reliability goals are met.
Qualifications:
8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related roles.
Strong experience AWS cloud platform - IAM, EC2, EKS, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda
Experience maintaining and deploying highly available, fault-tolerant systems at scale
Experience implementing CI/CD using tools like GitHub Actions
Operational (e.g. HA/Backups) and NoSQL experience (e.g. DynamoDB, Redis
Proficiency in scripting or programming language in Python
Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog, New Relic
Experience with Infrastructure as Code – IaC - using Terraform, Pulumi
Experience with security practices, compliance standards (SOC2, ISO 27001, etc.).
Excellent communication and leadership skills.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
What We Offer:
Competitive salary and equity packages
Equity/stock options
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Learning and development budget
A collaborative, growth-oriented engineering culture
Why Join Us:
We are committed to driving innovation in FinTech:
We have disruptive technology and will continue to build new products with this in mind.
We are in a growth industry:
The global financial services world is booming and projections are that the boom will grow.
We reward hard work and initiative:
Everyone at Veem is eligible for a bonus to reward you for your effort and contributions.
We are growing and will continue to grow:
If you want your career to grow, this is the place to be.
You want to explore new ways of doing things:
You want to build on your use of AI on the job? Bring it on! So do we!
3 words…Initial Public Offering
Our goal is to go public and we are offering our valued employees options packages when they join Veem. This is your opportunity to potentially hit it big!
