Devops Engineer

3 days ago

nepean, canada Assent Full-time

Company Description

Assent is the leading AI native platform for supply chain sustainability and compliance, trusted by complex manufacturers and distributors around the world. Built and backed by experts who have led global compliance programs, our unified platform combines advanced AI, regulatory expertise, and the world’s largest supply chain data network to help organizations reduce risk, lower operational costs, and build trust across every tier of the value chain. From human rights and responsible sourcing to PFAS reporting and Digital Product Passports, Assent transforms regulatory complexity into actionable insights that drive real business outcomes.

With over 900 team members across India, North America, Malaysia, the EU, and Kenya and more than 1,000 customers globally, Assent brings together global perspective and deep domain expertise. Our hybrid work model enables teams to collaborate effectively across regions while staying connected to the communities where they live and work. As a certified B Corporation, we meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. This reflects our commitment to building technology that drives business performance while creating long-term value for people and the planet.

People First. Technology Forward.

Our commitment to People, Culture & Community (PCC) is rooted in building a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing team. We recruit and retain team members with a range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, while fostering a culture of belonging where all Assentees are respected, supported, and empowered to contribute.

As we continue to embed AI into how we work, we do so thoughtfully, enhancing human potential, supporting better decision-making, and prioritizing appropriate oversight, privacy, and fairness.

At Assent, we value your privacy and are committed to maintaining transparency in how we handle your personal information. As part of our talent acquisition and management processes, we may use AI technologies to support activities such as resume screening, candidate communication, and talent analytics.

Job Description

The Senior DevOps Engineer, Data & AI Platform is a technical expert dedicated to the infrastructure behind Assent's Data & AI Platform. You bring strong senior-level DevOps expertise and apply it consistently to how our data pipelines, warehousing, and AI/ML systems are built and run. Your day to day is spent designing and building the infrastructure and tooling that our data pipelines, orchestration, and warehousing systems run on, working closely with Data Engineering to understand their requirements and remove operational friction. Your strong DevOps expertise ensures this work is delivered with the rigor, automation, security, reliability, and repeatability expected of a modern DevOps practice, applied to the specific context of data and AI/ML systems. You'll need strong data platform fundamentals, a solid grounding in DevOps methodology, and the judgment to know when and how to apply one to the other. As the platform matures, you will also contribute your experience to Assent's broader DevOps practices and initiatives.

Key Requirements & Responsibilities

  • Own the technical quality of the infrastructure, tooling, and automation underpinning Assent's Data & AI Platform from design through delivery through sustainment

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure as code and platform automation supporting data pipelines, warehousing, orchestration, and AI/ML workloads (e.G., Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow), primarily on AWS

  • Partner directly with Data Engineering to understand pipeline, workflow, and system requirements, translating them into infrastructure and automation that removes operational friction

  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and environment tooling for the data platform, applying the same rigor and repeatability expected of any modern DevOps practice

  • Design observability, alerting, and incident-response practices specific to data platform workloads, so pipeline and system health is visible and actionable

  • Design governance, access, and security policies for data platform infrastructure in collaboration with security and data engineering stakeholders

  • Guide the Data Engineering team on infrastructure and deployment best practices, helping them build in a way that fits Assent's broader DevOps practices