Knotch
DevOps Engineer
Canada, Remote (United States)
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 12 days ago
GitSnowflakeAWSGCPDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsPrometheusDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringMachine LearningData EngineeringAgentic AIAI OrchestrationCybersecurityIncident ResponseCommunicationCollaborationAdaptabilityArgo CD
About the role
- As we evolve into an AI-native platform powered by agentic systems and large-scale data pipelines, the reliability, scalability, and observability of our infrastructure becomes mission-critical.
- We're not just deploying services - we're operating complex, production-grade AI systems that enterprise clients depend on every day.
- You'll work across infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and security to ensure our systems are fast, resilient, and cost-efficient.
Responsibilities
- You think holistically about how services interact, scale, and fail - and design accordingly.
- You prioritize monitoring, alerting, and incident response as core parts of system design
- the infrastructure you build will directly support production AI systems used by enterprise clients.
- If you want to own infrastructure in a high-impact environment, work closely with engineering teams across the stack, and directly influence how production systems are built and operated, this is *that* role.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure across pre-production and production environments.
- Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable, and repeatable deployments across multiple environments.
- Own infrastructure as code (IaC) practices using tools like Terraform to ensure consistency and reproducibility.
- Manage environment lifecycle (development, staging, production), including promotion workflows and configuration management.
- Partner closely with Engineering, Data, and AI teams to support system performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Optimize infrastructure for cost, performance, and reliability, especially for compute- and data-intensive AI workloads.
Requirements
- Must Haves Prior experience in growth-stage and/or startup environement scaling from $10M to $20M+ ARR with a lean team.
- Strong experience with Google Cloud Provider (GCP), including IAM, networking, and data services.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
- Solid experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized environments.
- Familiarity with deployment tools such as Helm.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
- Ability to work across multiple systems and priorities in a dynamic environment.
Compensation
- The expected salary range for this opportunity is $90,000-$120,000 CAD, depending on skills and experience.
Benefits
- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high visibility into system health and performance.
- Some of our other great benefits include:
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance eligibility 401(k) plan Unlimited PTO 10+ company-paid holidays A daily company-wide break, and more!
- Our Benefits and Perks Knotch is a fully remote company.
Company info
- You'll help define how Knotch operates as an AI-first company, shaping infrastructure strategy, enabling developer velocity, and ensuring our systems scale alongside rapid product innovation.
- Most importantly, you'll be part of a team where infrastructure is not an afterthought - it's a core part of how we innovate and scale.
- We strive to provide equal opportunities in all of our processes, including our hiring and employee experience.
Equal opportunity
- Employer Knotch is a US-based equal opportunity employer.
- We pride ourselves on our three values: transparency, relentlessness, and inclusiveness.
- We commit to daily work towards leading with empathy, reducing bias through periodic training, and engaging with and uplifting communities of marginalized groups.
- We condemn all forms of racism and discrimination on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy or parenthood status, veteran status, disability status, or any other identifier.
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