Senior DevOps Engineer

Role Summary

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who combines deep Kubernetes expertise with a passion for cloud native systems and developer experience. This is a high-impact role where you'll help design and evolve the core Lotlinx Developer Platform — a self-service ecosystem built for speed, consistency, and reliability.

If you love enabling engineers through automation, reusable patterns, and rock-solid platform foundations, this is your opportunity to shape how all of Lotlinx builds and ships software.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and develop our centralized platform API using Python/FastAPI to abstract complex infrastructure workflows, enabling developer self-service for automated deployments and on-demand resource provisioning.
• Drive adoption of cloud native tooling and best practices across the engineering organization — from service meshes to observability stacks.
• Participate in the design and evolution of our Kubernetes platform, managing and optimizing EKS clusters for resilience, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Implement and maintain GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, and Kustomize pipelines to ensure consistent, automated deployments.
• Define golden paths for common service types, enforcing consistency through opinionated, well-documented templates.
• Build reusable Crossplane compositions and templates to empower developers to provision infrastructure via self-service APIs.
• Strengthen the platform's security posture with Vault, Kyverno, and cloud-native policy enforcement.
• Enhance reliability, traceability, and performance monitoring using the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir).
• Leverage Istio to improve traffic management and observability across microservices.
• Participate in the on-call rotation, ensuring production systems meet strict SLA and uptime expectations.
• Contribute to ongoing modernization and maintenance of Helm-based deployments.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes — from cluster scaling and networking to runtime debugging and controller patterns.
• Deep familiarity with the cloud native ecosystem, including tools like ArgoCD, Helm, Vault, Crossplane, Kyverno, and Istio.
• Hands-on experience building or contributing to developer platforms or internal PaaS systems.
• Strong programming experience with a scripting language, especially for automation and platform tooling.
• Solid foundation in infrastructure-as-code with Crossplane, Terraform, or Pulumi.
• Proven success operating production environments with robust SLAs, observability, and proactive reliability engineering.
• Expertise in AWS services including EKS for enterprise-grade container orchestration, IAM for robust identity governance, and Route53 for global traffic steering, underpinned by a deep mastery of EC2 optimization and secure VPC Networking architectures.

Nice to Have

• CKA Certification
• Experience architecting multi-cluster Kubernetes or hybrid cloud deployments.
• Prior work with service mesh and secure network automation.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing infrastructure.
• Enthusiasm for advancing the platform engineering discipline through internal advocacy and documentation.
• A strong sense of ownership and passion for delivering great developer experiences.

The salary range for this position is $108,000 to $119,000 CAD, with an annual target bonus.

Lotlinx provides a comprehensive benefits package.

This job posting is for an existing vacancy.