Job Description

Salary:

TL;DR

AI-First Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Montreal (Hybrid: TuesThurs in office)
Build and secure the cloud + Snowflake infrastructure powering one of only 3 Snowflake Native Apps in the world.
Be the infrastructure guardian of enterprise AIwhere deep cloud engineering meets cutting-edge data platforms.

Secure the Infrastructure That Enterprises Trust

Maxa, an AI-first company, is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to build and secure the cloud and Snowflake foundations behind our finance-grade AI products.

Maxa Analyst is the first auditable finance AI analyst, delivering CFO-ready, audit-proof answers in seconds. The infrastructure powering this must be ultra-reliable, secure, observable, and scalableand that will be your domain.

Your work ensures that every environment, deployment, and Snowflake Native App we ship is resilient, high-performing, and trustworthy enough for enterprise use. As one of the earliest members of our DevSecOps function, youll shape our infrastructure strategy, own key operational systems, and become an asset in our team of Snowflake infrastructure experts.

Everything is being built from the ground up.

The Impact Youll Make

As our Senior DevSecOps Engineer, youll sit at the intersection of cloud engineering, security, and data platform operations. Youll work closely with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to design, automate, and secure the full lifecycle of our cloud and Snowflake environments.

Youll be responsible for:

Keeping mission-critical infrastructure running flawlessly

Ensuring reliability and availability across GCP (or AWS/Azure) environments
Maintaining our 99.9% uptime SLA through proactive monitoring and rapid incident response
Managing Snowflake infrastructure and overseeing deployment of Snowflake Native Apps to customer accounts

Building automation foundations that accelerate product velocity

Creating and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for cloud services and Snowflake artifacts
Implementing GitOps workflows with tools like ArgoCD and GitHub Actions
Using Terraform and other IaC tools to define consistent, scalable infrastructure
Designing automated test frameworks for infrastructure changes
Leveraging advanced tooling (including agentic AI and coding assistants) to accelerate automation and quality

Becoming a cornerstone of security and compliance

Ensuring cloud and Snowflake environments follow best-practice security standards
Implementing Zero Trust Architecture
Managing secrets with Vault, GCP Secret Manager, or equivalents
Supporting audits, compliance activities, and secure-by-default design

Leading reliability culture within the engineering organization

Driving incident response and root-cause analysis
Partnering with developers and data engineers to integrate DevSecOps practices
Mentoring junior CloudOps engineers and upleveling our operations maturity

Youre the Right Fit If You Have:

Core Infrastructure Expertise (5+ years)

Deep hands-on experience in DevSecOps, CloudOps, or infrastructure engineering
Strong IaC experienceTerraform expert
Cloud fundamentals across IAM, networking, workload identity, and security (GCP preferred, AWS/Azure accepted)
Production experience with Kubernetes, Docker, VPCs, firewalls, load balancers
GitOps + CI/CD systems (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, etc.)
Monitoring/observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring)

Snowflake / Data Platform Expertise

Either:

Experience with Snowflake (or BigQuery/Redshift/Databricks)
SQL and data operations literacy
Or:
Strong infrastructure engineer ready to become a Snowflake expert (training provided)

Additional Technical Strengths

Python scripting for automation
Bash/Scripting familiarity
Infrastructure testing frameworks
Understanding of distributed systems concepts

This Position Is NOT for You If:

You prefer a mature, fully built DevOps environment rather than constructing one
You want narrow specialization vs. broad cloud + Snowflake ownership
You prefer to avoid security responsibilities
Youre uncomfortable being a core operator in a high-stakes production environment
You want minimal cross-team collaboration

What We Offer

Competitive base salary (aligned to seniority; this is a newly created role)
4 weeks vacation in year one, 5 weeks thereafter
RRSP employer contribution after 3 months
On-site chef: three-course lunches for $12
Stock options in a postSeries A high-growth AI company
The opportunity to define the infrastructure and security standards for enterprise AI

What Your First Weeks Will Look Like

Youll join the Infrastructure & DevSecOps group under Bruno Hivert, DevOps, Security and Infrastructure Team Lead.

In your first days:

Youll get full access to our cloud + Snowflake environments
Well introduce you to our Snowflake Native App customers and deployment flows
Youll begin refining our IaC standards, CI/CD pipelines, and observability setup

By week 2:

Youll be deploying updates to Snowflake Native Apps
Youll be leading improvements to monitoring, security posture, and automation workflows
Your work will directly influence customer reliability and product velocity

Recruitment Process

Initial screening with Gen (30 min, GMeet)
- Background + culture fit
Hiring Manager Interview with Bruno + Raya (45 min, GMeet)
- Technical depth, ownership expectations
Technical Deep Dive (90 min, in-person)
- Cloud + infrastructure architecture discussion
- Practical review of IaC, CI/CD, monitoring, and Snowflake operations

Timeline: ~23 weeks from application to offer

Maxa AI

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Senior DevSecOps Engineer