DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer Company: Alcumus Department: Technology & Product Employment Type: Permanent Location: Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area, Canada Reporting To: DevOps Manager Veriforce is seeking a DevOps Engineer to be a key member of the Veriforce software development team, working to deploy, monitor, and operate our software across key production systems that serve tens of thousands of customers. Your work will have a strong impact on user experience, customer satisfaction, and company growth. We work in an agile environment utilizing modern tools such as AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes and Ansible. The ideal candidate will be experienced, organized, positive, driven, and a team player. Essential Duties and Responsibilities Provide technical thought leadership in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) for development, UAT, and production environments. Ability to leverage AI coding assistance (i.e. Copilot) Design, implement and maintain observability and monitoring solutions and monitor the system health, taking action to maintain up‑time and performance SLAs, including on‑call rotation Design, implement, and maintain continuous integration (CI) and delivery (CD) systems and advise development teams on code and implementation to increase application resiliency, operability, and best practices. AI assisted coding will be leveraged wherever possible. Management of containerized workloads. Deploying application servers hosting APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients. Design, implement, and maintain Kubernetes clusters with advanced configuration and features Design, implement, and maintain Kafka clusters with advanced configuration and features Identify points of failure with ability to recommend and implement solutions in our infrastructure Qualifications Education level - Bachelor’s degree (B.A. or B.S.) preferable Years of Experience – 3+ relevant experience in Dev Ops in a SaaS environment Expertise in distributed systems including load balancing, data storage, distributed messaging, and distributed databases Expertise in software configuration management (SCM) and tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible or similar Expertise in cloud platforms, primarily AWS AWS PaaS tools: ECS, EKS, EC2, VPC, ELBs, S3, WAF, Parameter Store, SNS, SQS, SES, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFront, and more. Expertise in automated deployment methodologies that support CI/CD/CM using Git, Jenkins or GitHub Actions preferred Experience with managing infrastructure via IaC. Usage of AI agent assistance (i.e. Copilot) is a strong plus. Experience with source control systems (i.e. GitHub, Bitbucket) and IaC collaboration tools. Experience configuring and administering Kubernetes clusters using advanced features including non‑standard networking, storage classes/claims, namespace, and multiple node groups Experience configuring and administering Kafka clusters including disaster recovery mechanisms, data loss prevention techniques, and determining topic configuration to right size for demanding and variable loads Experience with Windows and Linux systems and tools Prior professional application development experience with a particular focus on SaaS applications and web development Knowledge of IP networking, including TCP, UDP, firewalls, SSL Knowledge of software engineering and design principles such as design patterns, architectural patterns, CAP Theorem, event driven architecture, and similar Must be security‑minded at all levels and adhere to the principle of least privilege Excellent communication and team collaboration skills with ability to approach and describe problems in a structured way and find reliable solutions. Benefits