Lead DevOps Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to own and evolve a high‑traffic, global scraping platform. Based in Canada and working in a remote‑first environment, you will drive cloud infrastructure strategy, ensure reliability at massive scale, and mentor a growing engineering team.

Key responsibilities

• Own and drive the end‑to‑end platform roadmap, identifying critical improvements and architectural priorities.
• Lead consolidation of multiple infrastructure stacks into a unified, scalable platform with minimal disruption.
• Design and optimise cloud infrastructure for performance, scalability, security and cost efficiency.
• Implement robust monitoring, alerting, logging and disaster‑recovery strategies.
• Own infrastructure cost optimisation, especially proxy and compute expenses.
• Strengthen platform security posture by addressing vulnerabilities and defending against threats.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on system design and support AI‑related initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and elevate platform engineering maturity, tooling and processes.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering at scale.
• Strong hands‑on expertise with Kubernetes, container orchestration and large‑scale distributed systems.
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and building CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of cloud and hosting environments, preferably DigitalOcean, Hetzner or similar providers.
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse or MongoDB is a plus.
• Expertise in monitoring and observability tools and a strong sense of operational excellence.

Required skills

• Kubernetes
• Container orchestration
• Terraform
• CI/CD pipelines
• DigitalOcean
• Hetzner
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• ClickHouse
• MongoDB
• Datadog
• New Relic
• Prometheus
• ELK stack