Lead DevOps Engineer

• Inventors of Brand Power - the most powerful, iconic TV ad platform driving brand sales
• Creators of Home Tester Club - the world’s largest digital community of shoppers delivering social proof content

• Strategic Leadership & Team Growth: Lead, mentor, and grow our existing DevOps team. Foster a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and best practices, empowering the team to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.
• Infrastructure Evolution: Drive the next phase of our AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost-efficiency. This includes optimizing existing resources and pioneering new solutions.
• CI/CD Pipeline Enhancement: Design, implement, and maintain robust, automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to accelerate software delivery, improve developer experience, and ensure code quality.
• Observability & Monitoring Excellence: Advance our logging, monitoring, and alerting systems (leveraging New Relic) to provide proactive insights into application performance, infrastructure health, and security posture.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Champion: Continue to build out and manage our infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code principles, primarily with Terraform and other automation tools, ensuring consistency and repeatability.
• Containerization & Migration Lead: Play a key role in supporting our strategic migration initiative, moving our Windows-hosted applications towards containerized solutions running efficiently within AWS.
• Software Engineering Partnership: Collaborate closely with our software engineering teams, providing expert guidance and infrastructure-related support to facilitate feature development, deployment, and ongoing operations.
• Compliance & Security Automation: Interface with our compliance officer to create, automate, and provide necessary audit and compliance reports, ensuring adherence to regulatory standards and internal policies.
• DevOps Strategy & Roadmap: Define and implement the overall DevOps strategy and roadmap, aligning technical vision with business objectives to drive continuous improvement.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and strategic planning for our software products.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and technical excellence within the team.
• Participate in the recruitment and onboarding of new engineering talent.
• AIOps Integration: Explore, evaluate, and integrate AI/ML-driven operations (AIOps) practices to enhance proactive incident detection, root cause analysis, and intelligent automation within our systems.

• Education: Undergraduate degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience: 6+ years of progressive professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or a related infrastructure-focused role.
• Leadership: 1-2 years of experience in a lead or senior capacity, with demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers, lead technical initiatives, and drive team growth.
• Cloud Expertise: Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services, particularly around EC2 (Windows), RDS (SQL Server), VPC, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, ECR, and container orchestration services (ECS/EKS).
• Infrastructure as Code: Deep expertise with Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
• CI/CD Mastery: Proven experience designing and implementing advanced CI/CD pipelines, with strong proficiency in GitHub Actions.
• Containerization: Solid understanding and practical experience with container technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms.
• Monitoring & Observability: Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools, specifically New Relic.
• Scripting & Automation: Strong scripting skills (e.g., Bash, PowerShell) for automating routine tasks and managing systems.
• Operating Systems: Familiarity with both Windows and Linux operating systems, including Active Directory integration.
• Networking: Understanding of core networking concepts, including DNS, firewalls, and load balancing (experience with Cloudflare a plus).
• Communication: Exceptional written and verbal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Global: Experience working effectively within a global delivery model.
• Hybrid: Ability to work 1-2 days per week from our Toronto Harbourfront office.

• Familiarity with database administration principles, especially for SQL Server.
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments.
• Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional.

• 4 weeks' vacation and other leave entitlements
• Relaxed (and pretty cool...if we don't say so ourselves) advertising agency environment with a commitment to professional development and progression
• Hybrid work model
• This isn't your typical 9-5, it's truly a global role and you will help lead initiatives that drive impact cross-functionally across multiple timezones, with the flexibility in your schedule to collaborate while maintaining balance.
• The base salary for this position at the time of this posting may range from CA$120,000 to CA$150,000. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• You'll be part of a forward-thinking team that values innovation, collaboration, and personal growth.
• A competitive compensation package including comprehensive benefits and plenty of opportunities for professional development.
• You'll have the chance to work on challenging projects, make a significant impact, and grow your career in a supportive and dynamic environment.

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