DevOps Engineer
Location: Remote (Canada-wide) with preference for applicants in the Greater Toronto Area
About the Company
Our client is a confidential, venture-backed pioneer at the intersection of AI, computer vision, and industrial automation. Their edge-focused platform is already improving safety and efficiency on factory floors across North America, and they are scaling fast.
Why This Role Rocks
- Build a green-field infrastructure layer that bridges cloud and edge for thousands of devices.
- Work in a fully remote, senior-only engineering culture that values autonomy and rapid iteration.
- See your work ship to real machines—impact measured in uptime, not vanity metrics.
- Competitive salary, meaningful early-stage equity, and first-class benefits.
Compensation & Benefits
- Market-competitive base pay plus meaningful equity.
- Flexible hours, 100 percent remote setup, and an annual home-office stipend.
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and mental-health coverage.
- Generous PTO, quarterly recharge Fridays, and a professional development budget.
Key Responsibilities
- Engineer and automate the cloud-plus-edge backbone that keeps thousands of Linux-based devices online, healthy, and secure.
- Manage Kubernetes clusters that power GPU-accelerated computer-vision workloads in both public cloud and on-prem customer sites.
- Design and own zero-touch deployment pipelines that support blue/green, canary, and instant rollback strategies for over-the-air updates.
- Codify infrastructure with Terraform, Helm, and similar tools so every environment spins up the same way every time.
- Embed scalable observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to surface fleet health and performance insights in real time.
- Partner with SRE and software teams to deliver resilient, easy-to-deploy microservices and APIs.
- Lead post-incident reviews, driving systemic fixes that strengthen reliability release after release.
- Champion security best practices around identity, secrets management, and network segmentation across cloud and edge footprints.
What You Bring
- 5+ years in DevOps, Platform, or Site Reliability Engineering.
- Hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production and troubleshooting containerized workloads.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or equivalents).
- Strong scripting or development skills in Python, Go, or a comparable language.
- Deep Linux knowledge plus solid fundamentals in networking and performance tuning.
- Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.).
- Exposure to distributed or hybrid cloud/edge systems; GPU scheduling or industrial IoT is a plus.
- Clear, collaborative communication style and a bias for owning problems end-to-end.
About Blue Signal:
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