Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer

Opportunity Snapshot

Join us as a Senior Engineer, DevOps/Cloud, and become an integral part of the team enhancing and maintaining Pixieset’s infrastructure.

In this role, you will provision, configure, and monitor our services, focusing on improving technology operations through initiatives like continuous deployment and testing. You’ll work with systems built on Ubuntu, PHP, MySQL, Redis, and various AWS products, supporting high-availability, large-scale, and mission-critical services. Your expertise in monitoring, redundancy, fault-tolerance, and disaster recovery at scale will be crucial for success.

We believe that DevOps is a mindset, not just a role. This means that we’re not looking for someone to be the go-to person for all cloud/infrastructure matters. Instead, we want someone who can establish, demonstrate, and teach the foundation and best practices to our full stack development teams, enabling them to build upon and grow. If you’re passionate about making an impact in a dynamic and innovative environment, we’d love to welcome you to our team.

Your Impact

• Support our engineering team in delivering high-quality and bug-free features by providing reliable and efficient DevOps solutions
• Coach, mentor, and empower fellow DevOps engineers, developers, and testers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and collaboration
• Create and document efficient processes that facilitate quick onboarding for team members, ensuring a seamless integration into our workflows
• Write robust infrastructure-as-code to automate provisioning, deployment, scaling, and monitoring of services on our AWS cloud infrastructure, contributing to enhanced efficiency and scalability
• Collaborate with external vendors, playing a key role in infrastructure integrations and finding solutions that align with our objectives and standards
• Drive automation initiatives, consistently seeking opportunities to enable self-serve capabilities within the team, promoting autonomy and efficiency
• Continuously share knowledge on best practices, industry trends, and other relevant information to keep the team informed and aligned with the latest advancements

Role Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps/Cloud Engineer/Systems Engineer role or equivalent
• Strong understanding of web application architecture and patterns in a high-volume, highly available, scalable environment
• Experience configuring and maintaining Linux-based systems, such as Ubuntu
• Experience working with AWS products, including EC2, RDS, S3, Cloudfront, VPC, etc.
• Experience with MySQL
• Experience working with Docker containers
• Experience in networking, VPC, security, caching, DNS, CDNs, load balancing, and low-level performance tuning
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, etc.
• Proficient in using configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.
• Proficiency in one or more scripting languages like Python, Ruby, Perl, Shell, etc.
• Experience with system monitoring tools such as NewRelic, Prometheus, StatsD, etc.
• Knowledge of role-based access control (RBAC) or identity management best practices for internal users
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies, comfortable working with different platforms and code bases, self-motivated, and strong attention to detail
• AWS Certification is a bonus

What We Offer

• Hybrid work environment (2 in-office days per week)
• 4 weeks of annual vacation & paid time off for office holiday closure
• RRSP matching
• $2,000 annual health & lifestyle spending account
• $1,000 annual education budget
• $1,000 annual charitable donation matching
• Comprehensive benefits: extended health, critical illness, long-term disability & life insurance
• Company-issued MacBook & home office budget
• Anniversary rewards & complimentary Pixieset premium account
• Team-building activities & company-wide events

The typical salary range for this position is CAD $116,850 - $160,650 annually. Salary offered will be based on skills, experience and market data.

Working at Pixieset

We’re dedicated to providing photographers and creative professionals with the tools they need to showcase their talent and grow their business. We offer a unique all-in-one platform that allows users to easily create and share stunning online galleries, sell their finished work, build an online presence, and manage their business.

Our culture is dynamic, collaborative, and encourages continuous learning and growth. Ideas and feedback are always welcomed and employees are encouraged to share their skills and knowledge with the team. We value dedication, innovation, and teamwork, and we are passionate about technology and providing simple solutions to complex challenges.

As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, collaborate with talented and passionate individuals, and make a real impact on the success of the company as we execute our ambitious product roadmap.

We are proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work™, Best Workplace in Technology™, and Best Workplace for Inclusion™. We love what we do, and we love the people we work with. Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of our keys for success. We believe that talent is talent and having many different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences makes for a stronger team, product, and company.

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