Senior Site Reliability Engineer

STACK IT Recruitment

. Own the company’s AWS infrastructure end to end, improving reliability, scalability, security, performance, and cost efficiency .

Posted 10/23/2026full-timeRemote • CanadaSenior💰 CA$140,000 - CA$180,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in managing AWS infrastructure, including Terraform, Kubernetes, and PostgreSQL, while ensuring security, performance, and cost efficiency. Proven ability to lead incident response, capacity planning, and CI/CD pipeline evolution in a production environment.

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AWS Infrastructure ManagementTerraform Infrastructure As CodeKubernetes Environment ManagementCI/CD Pipeline DevelopmentPostgreSQL Operations

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Hard Skills

AWSTerraformKubernetesLinuxPythonGoCI/CDPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearch

Soft Skills

Excellent Communication

Tools & Technologies

Observability ToolingIncident Response ProcessesCloud SecurityIAMVulnerability Management

Industry Keywords

Site Reliability EngineeringDevOpsInfrastructure EngineeringCapacity PlanningProduction Readiness

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsElasticSearchKubernetesLinuxPostgresPythonRedisTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the company’s AWS infrastructure end to end, improving reliability, scalability, security, performance, and cost efficiency
Design, build, and maintain Terraform infrastructure as code
Manage Kubernetes environments and containerized workloads
Evolve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and developer workflows
Strengthen observability, alerting, and incident response
Lead production issue investigations and prevent recurrence
Plan for capacity, failure, and recovery while reducing operational toil
Operate and modernize PostgreSQL on RDS, Redis, and Elasticsearch systems, including backups, replication, migrations, and performance tuning
Provide visibility into AWS and engineering tooling spend and partner on budgeting, forecasting, and infrastructure investment
Drive infrastructure security priorities with a senior external security advisor
Collaborate with backend engineers on architecture and contribute to backend services when appropriate

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps or infrastructure engineering, including ownership of production cloud environments
Deep hands-on expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform
Strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, and distributed systems
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and incident response processes
Experience with capacity planning, failure and recovery design, and production readiness
Experience operating PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch infrastructure
Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or a comparable language
Hands-on experience with cloud security, IAM, vulnerability management, and security reviews
Experience managing cloud infrastructure costs and balancing cost, performance, and reliability
Excellent communication skills with engineers and business stakeholders

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive vacation and personal days
Medical, dental, and vision benefits, fully paid by the company
Employer RRSP matching contributions
Profit-sharing bonus
Access to enterprise AI tools
Flexible hours
Diversity and inclusion support
Hiring-process accommodation available