Senior DevOps Engineer

ABOUT US Localcoin, founded in 2017 with headquarters in Toronto, is on a mission to simplify the process and experience of buying or selling digital currencies globally. We envision bringing digital currency to the mainstream financial market through partnerships with leading corporate and franchised retail spaces. With terminals across Canada, Poland, and the APAC region—including Australia, Hong Kong, and New Zealand—Localcoin is now the fastest-growing Bitcoin ATM operator in the world.

ABOUT US Localcoin, founded in 2017 with headquarters in Toronto, is on a mission to simplify the process and experience of buying or selling digital currencies globally. We envision bringing digital currency to the mainstream financial market through partnerships with leading corporate and franchised retail spaces. With terminals across Canada, Poland, and the APAC region—including Australia, Hong Kong, and New Zealand—Localcoin is now the fastest-growing Bitcoin ATM operator in the world.

At its core, Localcoin believes that everyone should be able to own cryptocurrency and have a deep understanding of blockchain technology.

As a member of our rapidly growing team, you'll join a talented, dynamic group of team members who will encourage you to learn, grow, and thrive in your career every step of the way.

If you're a self-starter looking to hone your skills in a startup environment that fosters innovation, transparency, and team connectivity, we look forward to hearing from you

THE ROLE Salary Range:

$150,000 - $180,000

We are seeking a

Senior DevOps Engineer

with deep AWS expertise, multi-account architecture experience, and strong leadership capability. This role owns our cloud infrastructure strategy, CI/CD systems, security posture, observability stack, and infrastructure governance across production and regulated environments.

This is a hands-on technical role with a strong emphasis on execution (80%), complemented by mentoring, coaching, and knowledge transfer (20%) to other team members. The role is responsible for designing and delivering resilient systems that meet SLAs while maintaining compliance and operational excellence.

This position will be based out of our Etobicoke, ON office, with an expectation of working in‑office two days per week.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING Cloud Architecture & Multi-Account Strategy

Design and manage AWS Organizations across multiple accounts

Architect multi-region, highly available systems aligned with defined SLAs

Design secure VPC/private subnet strategies, Transit Gateways, VPN/NGINX tunnels

Implement expert-level IAM governance (least privilege, Verified Permissions, SSO)

Continuously evolve cloud architecture to support fintech-grade reliability and compliance

Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD Leadership

Lead advanced Terraform implementations across multi-account environments

Design scalable module architecture and state management strategies

Own and scale GitLab CI/CD pipelines and SaaS runners

Build AMI pipelines and infrastructure automation using Python, Go, or Bash aiming deterministic builds

Improve deployment velocity without compromising security

Containers, Orchestration & Observability

Architect and operate Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS environments

Manage ECR, image scanning, auto-scaling

Implement observability using Datadog (preferred) or Prometheus/Thanos

Define SLIs/SLOs aligned to business SLAs

Lead incident response and root cause analysis

Architect and operate RDS databases

Security & Compliance

Resolve CIS Benchmark and Security Hub findings

Harden AWS environments and container workloads

Manage secrets via Vault or AWS Secrets Manager

Support PCI or regulated fintech/crypto requirements

Strengthen our cloud security stack across infrastructure and pipelines

Edge, Connectivity & Cloudflare

Manage Cloudflare infrastructure (Firewall, WARP, Zero Trust, Access, DNS)

Design secure edge networking and connectivity patterns

Support secure connectivity for crypto infrastructure components

Lead cloud migration efforts when required

FinOps & Governance

Implement cost optimization and tagging strategies

Clean up unused resources and reduce cloud waste

Build architecture documentation and operational runbooks

Drive infrastructure governance and platform standards

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

7–10 years in IT infrastructure/cloud engineering

5+ years owning production AWS environments

Deep AWS architecture expertise (multi-account, security stack, networking)

Advanced Terraform experience in complex environments

Strong CI/CD a