DevOps Engineer (Senior-Principal Levels)

Sectigo•Ottawa, ON

28d•CA$130,000 - CA$170,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We are building next‑generation trust infrastructure—high‑performance systems that power certificate lifecycle and emerging industry trust models. We are looking for Senior to Principal level DevOps Engineers who focus on turning complex distributed systems into production‑grade services: defining how they are deployed, operated, scaled, and recovered in real‑world environments. These systems require high correctness, resilience, and operational discipline from day one. You will work closely with engineering and architecture to ensure that production readiness is not an afterthought, but a core design input. This includes collaboration across the broader ecosystem and engagement with upstream components to help shape how modern trust infrastructure is actually operated in production.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in related field is strongly recommended.
Strong experience (Senior / Staff / Principal level) in DevOps, SRE, or production infrastructure engineering is required.
Experience operating distributed systems at scale, including high availability and resilience design is required.
Deep understanding of observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response is required.
Experience building CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release systems is required.
Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, similar tools) is required.
Solid understanding of performance, scaling, and system reliability principles is required.
Ability to work closely with engineering teams to influence system design—not just operate systems after the fact is required.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with security-critical or trust infrastructure systems is strongly preferred.
Experience collaborating in open-source or cross-organization environments is strongly preferred.
Exposure to PKI, certificate lifecycle systems, or high-correctness platforms is strongly preferred.
Experience operating systems with strict availability and correctness requirements is strongly preferred.
Ability to lead through influence rather than authority.
Clear communication skills and strong technical judgment.
Experience scaling multi‑tenant SaaS platforms.
Database and storage performance expertise.
Multi‑region or globally distributed system experience.
Background working closely with SRE or platform teams.

Responsibilities

Define and deliver production readiness
Define what “production‑ready” means for trust infrastructure systems (availability, resilience, SLOs, failure recovery)
Build and enforce observability standards (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting) aligned to real operational needs
Establish operational guardrails that prevent demo-to-production drift
Build deployment and operational systems
Design and implement deployment pipelines, rollout strategies, and rollback mechanisms
Build Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for repeatable, reliable system deployment
Ensure systems are portable and deployable beyond single environments or cloud-native assumptions
Validate real‑world behavior
Design and execute load, stress, and failure testing to validate system behavior under real conditions
Implement and test multi‑region, high availability, and disaster recovery strategies
Continuously validate capacity, scaling limits, and degradation patterns
Collaborate across engineering and ecosystem boundaries
Work closely with backend and architecture teams to integrate operational concerns into system design from day one
Collaborate with ecosystem partners and upstream components to align on production operability requirements
Ensure external dependencies and upstream components meet real‑world operational constraints

Benefits

Equal Opportunity Employer
Commitment to providing equal opportunities throughout your career
Hiring and promoting the most qualified individuals based on their skills, experience, job requirements, and business needs
Does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws
Strong sense of belonging
Respectful, inclusive workplace free from discrimination and harassment
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools during the recruitment process (used responsibly and transparently, ensuring fairness, accuracy, and human oversight)
Global team. Global reach. Global impact.
Doing good is good business.
Strength and success come from a team of passionate, engaged individuals who make a difference, both locally and globally.
Commitment to engagement rooted in an unconditionally inclusive workforce, embodying unique perspectives, heritages, and backgrounds.
Strive to be recognized not only as the CLM leader but also for intentional efforts to promote employees into roles that most challenge and excite them.
Experiences that allow them to grow their interests as the business grows.
Commitment to bringing a little bit of fun and a whole lot of happiness into everything they do.
Work – and team members – reflect the positive outcomes delivered to customers every day.