HR POD - Hiring Talent Globally

Lead DevSecOps Engineer

HR POD - Hiring Talent Globally

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSDNSDockerEC2GoGrafanaKubernetesNGINXPrometheusPythonTerraform

About the role

  • Critically evaluate our existing AWS infrastructure setup including RDS configurations, EC2 instances, Nginx load balancing, Docker Compose deployments, Target Groups, and Route53 DNS management
  • Identify security vulnerabilities and scalability bottlenecks in the current architecture
  • Design and implement infrastructure improvements with a focus on high availability, disaster recovery, and auto-scaling capabilities
  • Modernize deployment strategies moving from Docker Compose to more scalable orchestration solutions where appropriate
  • Conduct security audits of existing infrastructure and implement security hardening measures
  • Redesign network architecture with proper VPC segmentation, security groups, and IAM policies
  • Implement secrets management and encryption at rest/in transit across all services
  • Establish compliance frameworks suitable for enterprise clients in manufacturing and aerospace sectors
  • Architect auto-scaling solutions to handle variable workloads and traffic spikes
  • Optimize database performance and implement proper backup/recovery strategies for RDS
  • Design load balancing strategies that can handle global traffic distribution
  • Implement caching layers and CDN strategies for improved performance
  • Take full ownership of infrastructure decisions and their implementation
  • Drive initiatives from conception to completion with minimal supervision
  • Establish infrastructure standards and best practices across the engineering organization
  • Lead incident response and post-mortem analysis for infrastructure-related issues

Requirements

  • 7+ years of hands-on DevOps/Infrastructure engineering experience with AWS
  • Proven track record of redesigning and scaling production infrastructure for high-growth companies
  • Deep expertise in AWS services including RDS, EC2, ELB/ALB, Route53, VPC, IAM, and CloudFormation/Terraform
  • Strong security background with experience in infrastructure hardening and compliance
  • Experience migrating from traditional deployments to modern container orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS)
  • Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform preferred)
  • Expert-level scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash
  • Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines and GitLab-based workflows
  • Kubernetes expertise for container orchestration at scale
  • Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, ELK stack)
  • Advanced GitLab experience including GitOps practices, GitLab Runner optimization, and GitLab security scanning
  • Knowledge of serverless architectures and event-driven systems
  • Experience with compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO 27001, etc.)
  • Previous experience supporting AI/ML workloads and data pipelines.

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Hard skills
AWSRDSEC2NginxDocker ComposeKubernetesTerraformPythonGoBash
Soft skills
critical evaluationsecurity auditingincident responseleadershipownershipinitiativecommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationproject management
Certifications
SOC2ISO 27001