DevOps Engineer

FULLY REMOTE IN CANADA - Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer

This role is focused on production deployment oversight and reliability engineering rather than building infrastructure from scratch. Seeking for a senior resource with strong production experience to review, validate, and support the initial live deployment.

Role: Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer

• Engagement: Contract - 6 months to begin with and MUST be able to work EST hours

Location: Remote

Experience: Senior (5+ years AWS production experience)

Key Responsibilities

• Review Terraform plans and validate production infrastructure readiness
• Oversee the first production deployment in AWS
• Validate environment isolation and infrastructure stability
• Execute and document failover and resiliency drills (e.g., database and service recovery)Ensure containerized services deploy and run reliably
• Configure monitoring and alerting integrations
• Support performance testing and system tuning
• Participate in production launch activities and incident simulations
• Provide launch-day engineering support and post-launch recommendations

Required Skills

• 5+ years managing production AWS environments
• Strong experience with ECS Fargate and microservices architectures Hands-on experience with Terraform (state management and plan review) Experience executing production failover and recovery testing Experience with Kinesis Data Streams or real-time data pipelines Experience supporting high-availability production deployments Strong incident response and troubleshooting experience
• Experience with WebSocket-based architectures is an asset

Nice to Have

• AWS Professional-level certifications
• Experience with IoT or real-time telemetry platforms
• Experience with stream processing technologies
• Experience with Blue/Green or controlled production deployments
• Experience configuring monitoring and on-call alerting systems
• Experience working with multi-tenant SaaS platforms