Senior Infrastructure/ DevOps Engineer

Department: Core

Location: Canada

Employment Type: Contract

Lazer is a world-class digital product studio composed of 180+ senior engineers and designers with backgrounds from companies like Apple, Google, Coinbase, and more. With our product experience, we have designed, engineered, and grown products from $0 to $200M in revenue.

Clients seek out our help because we have the talent to deeply understand their needs and provide industry, technical, or product insights that are uniquely valuable to their efforts. Our clients range from early-stage startups and venture studios to recognizable retail brands and exciting enterprises. Some of our notable clients include Google, Shopify, Coinbase, Alchemy, Hinge, OVO, Polymarket, and more.

We are a remote-first organization headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with employees worldwide. We believe in providing the best experience possible for all Lazerites by fostering a strong community through regular events, company vacations, competitive compensation, unlimited PTO, and more!

Join Lazer and help us solve problems and build the next generation of products!

Who You Are

• Seniority: Minimum of 5 years dedicated experience in DevOps, Infrastructure, or SRE roles. Expert Tooling: Must be an expert with Docker, Kubernetes (k8s), and Terraform/Pulumi.

• Cloud Proficiency: Deep, proven expertise in either AWS or GCP infrastructure, with the ability to quickly grasp and transition to other cloud providers.

• Development Skills: Strong ability to write clean, maintainable code for automation in Go, Python, or Node.js.

• Security Focus: Demonstrable experience implementing and maintaining modern cloud security controls and meeting key compliance standards (SOC2, PIPEDA, HIPAA and/or GDPR).

• Independent, Proactive, and Cross-Functional: Proven ability to quickly onboard, diagnose problems, and propose/implement solutions with minimal oversight. Experienced in a consultant or freelancer capacity, demonstrating an aptitude for understanding and effectively communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

  
  What You'll Do
  

• To be successful the candidate will be expected to rapidly deliver solutions leveraging the following specific cloud services and tooling down below:

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Mastery: Quickly implement and adapt infrastructure using Terraform , Pulumi, or other major IaC tools.

• Containers proficiency: Experience with Docker is critical. You must deeply understand how to design, build, and optimize secure, multi-stage Dockerfiles.

• CI/CD Implementation: Design, build, and manage robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to automate code testing, building, and deployment across environments.

• Core Cloud Services (AWS or GCP): Proven ability to provision and manage foundational services. Deep expertise in one major cloud provider is required, with the understanding that knowledge is transferable to the other.

• Container Compute: Expertise in at least one major container platform: EKS, GKE, ECS, Fargate, OR Cloud Run. (Expertise in Kubernetes (k8s) is still highly valued, particularly with EKS or and GKE.)

• Networking: Understand when to use load balancers, VPNs for secure connectivity, and private VPCs for network isolation. Applies knowledge of subnetting, routing, VPC peering, and NAT gateways to build secure applications.

• Storage: Experience with S3 (AWS) OR Cloud Storage (GCP).

• Databases: Experience with RDS (AWS) OR CloudSQL (GCP).

• Serverless: Deploy event-driven components using Cloud Functions (AWS Lambda/GCP Functions) or their equivalents.

• CDNs, Message Queues.

• Security: Understands the value of security such as protecting PII, the role of encryption, secrets management, network firewalls, and web application firewalls (AWS WAF, GCP Cloud Armor) following security best practices.

• Automation & Scripting: Write high-quality automation and tooling using Go, Python, Node.js or Bash for client-specific operational challenges.

• Monitoring and Operations: Ensure robust monitoring (leveraging out-of-the-box cloud provider solutions) and high system uptime.
  

Nice to Have

• AI/ML Infrastructure: Experience deploying and managing AI/ML workloads. Provisioning vector databases, and GPU/TPU compute resources.

• Multi-Cloud Experience: Prior hands-on experience in both AWS and GCP environments.

• Certifications: Cloud Certifications such as AWS or GCP certificates. Are a plus, but not mandatory.

• Advanced monitoring (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog) or logging experience.

• Experience with GitOps, ArgoCD or Flux.

• Experience with a Service Mesh, Ingress gateway.
  

AI in our hiring process
We use AI to help us review and shortlist applications based on job-related criteria. A human hiring manager always makes the call on who moves forward. As a company that builds with AI every day, we're all for candidates using it too — just be upfront about how it helped.

Why Work With Us

• 🚀 Accelerate Your Growth: Work across multiple industries and cutting-edge projects with a team that ships fast.

• 💥 Maximum Impact: Shape the future of the tech industry by helping ambitious projects reach their potential.

• 🏅 True Ownership: Everyone ships code and has real autonomy with minimal meetings.

• 💡 Continuous Learning: Be part of a team of senior engineers and designers who love learning and knowledge sharing.
  

Why This Might Not Be For You

• 🤖 You Resist Modern Tools: We leverage AI and cutting-edge technology to build rapidly and focus our energy on solving the most complex, high-impact challenges for our clients.

• 🏗️ You Crave High Structure: We thrive in an autonomous, fast-moving environment, which means you need to be comfortable with some ambiguity.

• 😴 You Prefer Conventional Careers: Our consulting approach involves varied projects and direct client interaction — it's not for everyone.

• 1️⃣ You Like Staying in One Lane: Our projects require adapting to different tech stacks and modern tooling quickly.

Benefits & Perks

• 🌐 Work From Anywhere: Choose your workspace — all you need is strong wifi and a passion for building!

• 🧘‍♂️ Work / Life Balance: We believe in our team’s ability to have it all; a great career, and time to unplug and live…you know...life.

• 🩺 Employee Care: We provide full benefits (healthcare, dental, vision) for our employees (401k for our US employees)

• 🏖️ Unlimited PTO: Everyone needs a break. Take at least 15 days off a year, and more if you need—just be cool about it and keep the team in mind.

• 🎉 Regular Team Retreat: Join us for a week of team bonding at amazing destinations. Recent trips include the Dominican Republic, Cancun, and Hawaii — plus ones welcome.