DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Next Matter in Canada as a DevOps Engineer to lead our expansion into North America and transition our infrastructure to a multi-cloud environment. As our first Canadian hire, you will be crucial to the regional deployment's success. You will design, build, and manage our core infrastructure, develop CI/CD pipelines, implement observability tools, and provide on-call support. This role offers a unique opportunity to grow with a rapidly expanding SaaS startup and significantly impact our infrastructure. You will collaborate with the engineering team to overcome challenges and ensure the reliability and scalability of our platform. This is a remote-first position with significant flexibility.

Requirements

• Demonstrate a sense of ownership and the ability to manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision, maintaining a focus on impactful outcomes aligned with business objectives
• Possess extensive professional experience in building and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure and services across AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Possess extensive professional experience in developing complex systems using an infrastructure-as-code approach (Terraform)
• Possess extensive professional experience in operating containerised services in multi-cloud environments
• Demonstrate proficiency in managing cloud-based and self-hosted CI/CD systems (GitLab)
• Possess a strong understanding of observability principles and experience with industry-standard tools (Datadog, Sentry)
• Demonstrate a collaborative mindset, with a strong desire to work with peers across all levels to drive success

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and manage the core infrastructure of the Next Matter platform, ensuring scalability, compliance, performance, and security. This includes building cloud-native and cloud-agnostic service infrastructure using best practices, and infrastructure-as-code principles
• Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines to enhance delivery efficiency across the Engineering organisation
• Implement and manage infrastructure and service observability, alerting, and reporting to ensure reliability and quick issue resolution
• Provide on-call infrastructure and DevOps support for the Engineering team, addressing operational challenges effectively
• Work collaboratively with the rest of the Engineering team to proactively identify and solve blockers / bottlenecks

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar compliance frameworks in the context of infrastructure and DevOps
• Experience in building scalable platforms using Kubernetes (K8s)
• Possess cloud-specific certifications (AWS Professional , Azure / GCP equivalent)
• Experience working with an internationally distributed team

Benefits

• The once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a global tech company, the right way, in a well-funded setting with an experienced, tech-driven team and a validated product and business model
• The opportunity to work remotely, with a high degree of independence and flexibility in working hours. We are a remote-first team located in multiple European countries and North America
• A state-of-the-art remote office setup. We’ll set you up with an Apple MacBook or a Lenovo machine along with the software you need
• A 1,000 EUR one-time home office stipend for setting up your remote workplace, as well as a 250 EUR equipment allowance per year to keep your equipment up to date
• A learning budget of 1,000 EUR per year to support your personal and professional development
• A competitive, top-of-market salary, bonus, and equity options