DevOps Engineer

Thrive Career Wellness Platform

Job Location:

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: $ 150000 - 180000

Posted on: 2 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Opportunity

Theres existing CI infrastructure and yes some of it needs untangling. But thats the job and its a good one: come in with fresh eyes figure out whats worth keeping and build the platform right from here. No politics no bureaucracy. Just a real mandate to make things better from architecture to on-call culture at a company genuinely changing how people navigate one of the hardest things theyll face losing a job and growing their career.

Thrive partners with employers and service providers to deliver tech-enabled outplacement and career wellness solutions. We move people into meaningful employment faster. The work matters and the engineering needs to match.

Youll be Thrives first dedicated DevOps Engineer. Youll assess what exists decide what matters and build a production-grade secure and automated platform from the ground up. Youll work alongside a Staff Engineer and Solution Architect with deep infrastructure opinions but DevOps decisions are yours to make. Youll have direct access to engineering leadership and a genuine relationship with the team not a ticket queue.

If you want ownership scope and the satisfaction of building something that lasts this is it.

What Youll Own

This role has real breadth heres whats in your domain:

Cloud Infrastructure

Youll be the person who shapes how Thrives AWS environment grows. That means setting standards documenting decisions and building something the engineering team can actually rely on not just for today but as the company scales.

CI/CD & Deployment Automation

Theres existing CI in place and your job is to make it better. Youll assess whats worth keeping improve whats not and build toward a release process thats fast reliable and low-drama for everyone on the team.

Reliability & Incident Response

Youll own how Thrive detects responds to and learns from incidents. That means putting the right observability tooling in place and building on-call processes that are sustainable not just reactive.

Security & Compliance

Thrive already operates in high-compliance environments with SOC 2 GDPR and other programs in place. Youll be the technical implementer who helps those programs grow translating compliance requirements into infrastructure reality and making sure the foundation keeps pace as the business evolves.

The DevOps Function Itself

Beyond the technical work youll help shape what DevOps looks like at Thrive the playbooks the norms the way engineering teams interact with infrastructure. Youll have real influence over how this function grows.

What Were Looking For

4 years of hands-on DevOps or platform engineering experience in a cloud-native environment including time as the primary or sole DevOps owner
Solid experience designing and managing AWS infrastructure (Fargate ECS IAM networking)
A track record of building or significantly improving CI/CD pipelines
Experience owning infrastructure security and implementing compliance needs
Infrastructure as Code preferably Terraform
Docker and container orchestration at production scale
GitHub Actions optimization for speed and cost
Monitoring and observability tooling (Datadog Grafana PagerDuty or similar)
Experience defining RPO/RTO targets and running disaster recovery testing
SaaS or high-growth startup background

Our Hiring Process

Recruiter Screen (30 min)
Hiring Manager Interview (45 min)
Panel / Technical Interview (2 hrs)
Team Member Intro (3045 min)

Thrive values diversity and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process please let us know. Only candidates legally entitled to work in Canada will be considered.

Required Experience:

The OpportunityTheres existing CI infrastructure and yes some of it needs untangling. But thats the job and its a good one: come in with fresh eyes figure out whats worth keeping and build the platform right from here. No politics no bureaucracy. Just a real mandate to make things better from archi...