Senior DevOps Engineer

Recognized as one of Canada's top startups two years in a row — climbing from #4 in 2024 to #2 in 2025 — Hiive is a fintech/marketplace startup connecting buyers and sellers of stock in venture-backed pre-IPO companies. Thanks to our industry-leading technology and best-in-class sales and trading team, we are home to the fastest-growing marketplace for the stock of "unicorns" on the planet. As a profitable and rapidly growing business backed by US venture capital investors, we are seeking to scale our high-performing team.

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As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of our infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with Engineers, Product Managers, and other stakeholders to optimize deployment pipelines, enhance system performance, and maintain the security of our platform. You will take ownership of our CI/CD processes, automate infrastructure management, and support the Engineering team in delivering high-quality software at scale. You will work closely with your colleagues to improve system observability, troubleshoot production issues, and foster an excellent and supportive engineering culture.

In this role, your responsibilities would include:

• Automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring to improve system efficiency.

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid and reliable releases.

• Ensuring platform reliability by proactively identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks.

• Collaborating with product engineers to improve infrastructure and developer experience.

Required Skills:

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), in particular with strong proficiency in EKS, RDS, and VPC.

• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience working with Linux-based infrastructure.

• Proficiency in building Infrastructure as Code configuration with Terraform.

• Experience building performant CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.

• Experience with Datadog or similar observability tools.

• Strong communication and documentation skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding of security best practices in cloud environments.

• Familiarity with incident response and on-call rotation processes.

• Knowledge of networking concepts and troubleshooting.

• Understanding of Postgres database design and optimization.

• Experience with SOC2 or similar certifications.

• Experience working with Vercel and/or Cloudflare.

• Consider themselves highly capable at hands-on development in one or more programming languages.

Compensation, Benefits, & Perks:

• Highly competitive salary commensurate with experience and contribution.

• Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing early-stage startup through our employee stock option plan.

• Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums, a health and personal spending account.

• An engaging social calendar, including bi-weekly catered lunches, bi-weekly "Friday bar," team workouts, annual summer party, and holiday party, two "onsite" all-team retreats each year, semi-annual team-building events, and Hiive Womens' Network events.

• Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.

• Entrepreneurial culture and a small and dynamic team.

• Sponsorship, immigration, and relocation for exceptional candidates.

Hiive is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed.