Wave HQ is hiring a

Senior DevOps Engineer

Toronto, Canada
Full-Time
We believe small businesses are at the heart of our communities, and championing them is worth fighting for. We empower small business owners to manage their finances fearlessly, by offering the simplest, all-in-one financial management solution they can't live without.

DevOps engineers at Wave work in the space where operations meets product development. Our team is committed to organically building our culture of DevOps through enabling product teams to make informed decisions about their infrastructure, working with them to solve infrastructure related problems, and by building and maintaining the tools that make this possible. Our team has just completed a full migration from a legacy container management platform to Kubernetes, a migration from AWS RDS to AWS Aurora, and migrated 3 legacy MySQL apps to PostgreSQL. Now that our infrastructure modernization project is complete, we are eagerly pushing ahead with our DevOps enablement program as well as building out cloud-based personal developer environments so our engineers can have a fully cloud-native developer experience.

As a Senior Engineer you will be expected to go beyond the day-to-day needs of the team, leveraging your many years of experience to make more systematic improvements to the team’s DevOps practices. You will also be expected to regularly and substantively improve the skills of other team members. Some ways this may manifest itself include introducing new processes to the team, independently identifying areas of friction and driving solutions, running workshops for other members of engineering on DevOps practices, and mentoring other engineers. Here at Wave we expect all mid-level and above engineers to take full ownership of major initiatives from definition to delivery and to support other engineers while they grow into this responsibility.

Our team has a mature practice of lean/kanban and we believe in continuous improvement. As a Senior Engineer others will look to you for leadership. You can count on a great team of peers to support you while you reach your full potential.

You will thrive here if you have:

  • 4+ years of cloud native infrastructure work experience, ideally on AWS.
  • Deep understanding of software development and system design
  • Extensive experience with IaC, preferably Terraform
  • Experience with observability and alerting tools such as Datadog and PagerDuty
  • A comfort working in new domains
  • An understanding of container orchestration tools, such as Docker and Kubernetes, from an application developer’s point of view
  • Have led multiple major projects and are excited to support others in doing the same

We are looking for someone who is passionate about

  • Helping small businesses
  • Great developer experience
  • Collaborating with external stakeholders
  • Site reliability
  • Learning new things
  • Being a driving force in an active DevOps cultural transition
  • Building towards a collaborative, supportive environment where everyone can reach their full potential
  • Giving and receiving constructive feedback
  • Writing great technical documentation for broad audiences
  • Meeting the needs of the business through optimizing our infrastructure

At Wave, you’re treated like the incredible human being you are. 

Work From Where You Work Best: We will always have a welcoming, energizing, and world-class office (in Toronto) with a space for you. Or, if you’re more comfortable working from home, the choice is yours.
We Care About Future You: You will stretch yourself and you will grow at Wave. You will also be supported on this journey with diverse learning experiences, educational allowances, mentorship, and so much more.
We Support the Full You: We make a serious investment in your health & wellness. When we think about benefits we think about body, mind, & soul and we take this stuff very seriously. 
We Take Care of the Fundamentals: Fair compensation, all the office perks you’d want, and the various goodies you’d expect from a growing tech company. This is the obvious stuff, but we don’t want you to think we forgot!

We believe that a diverse and inclusive culture creates the best workplace. We embrace our differences, value individuality, and the broad spectrum of every Waver's skills and abilities. We challenge each other from a place of respect and pursuit of continuous growth. We trust each other and encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work, everyday. As Wavers, our voices matter, our opinions are met with an open mind. The best ideas win, no matter whose they are.  Contributing to an inclusive culture is a part of all of our job descriptions. 

We’ve been continuously recognized as one of Canada's Top Ten Most Admired Corporate Cultures and one of Canada’s Great Places to Work in categories including Technology, Millennials, Mental Health, Inclusion and Women.  

Are you ready to be a Waver? Join us!
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