Velora
Senior DevOps Engineer/Platform Engineer
Remote, Canada · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$135k-$165kDetected 12 days ago
Distributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentAWSGCPAzureKubernetesTerraformHelmDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringRESTCommunicationWriting
About the role
- Velora is looking for a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to help run and scale the infrastructure behind Aplos, Raisely, and Keela.
- This role centers on Raisely (GCP) as our top business priority today, with exposure across all three brands as we unify the platform.
Responsibilities
- Set and drive adoption of modern SDLC patterns - module structure and dependencies, environment promotion, and safe, progressive delivery.
- Author clear design docs, diagrams, and RFCs, and raise the bar for technical writing across the team.
- Evolve the platform as a product: understand what engineering needs, design the workflows, and ship the software that delivers them.
- Operate and scale Kubernetes-based workloads with Helm - owning reliability, capacity, networking, and performance for the services you support.
- Own reliability for the platform and services you steward: set sensible SLOs, plan capacity, run resilience drills, and keep systems within target.
- Take ownership during incidents: jump in quickly, drive toward remediation, and run blameless post-incident reviews that produce durable fixes and better runbooks.
- 🤷 Training - We'll support you when you want to learn new skills or pay for conference or course tickets.
Requirements
- While we continue to offer the products you know and love, we now operate as one team, dedicated to making nonprofit work easier, more impactful, and more sustainable.
- We have a combination of merged teams and also teams dedicated to one specific product and you can find details about the work through our job descriptions under the "about the role" section.
Nice to have
- 5-9 years in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or software engineering, with strong production ownership and cross-team collaboration.
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field - or equivalent hands-on experience.
- Genuinely strong coding ability.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform (we use Terraform Cloud) for provisioning, upgrades, and environment management.
- This is a strong preference rather than a hard gate.
- Solid Kubernetes and Helm experience operating production workloads, with room to deepen on the job.
- Comfortable reasoning about distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, networking, and the hardware and virtualization concepts underneath - CPU, memory, and how a running process actually consumes resources.
- Working knowledge of databases and transactions - enough to reason about data integrity and trace where a data problem originates.
Skills
- At Velora, DevOps provides the tooling, infrastructure, and processes that let engineers self-serve - safely and at speed.
- So while the title is
- Owning it means owning the code, the architecture, and the roadmap - not just running it.
Compensation
- 💵 Salary - The salary range for this role is $135,000 - $165,000 CAD.
Benefits
- 🏝️ Paid Time Off - In Canada, everyone gets 4 weeks paid leave plus 11 days of public holidays, as well as an 'end of year shutdown' which is an extra 2 week company holiday.
- Plus, you are entitled to generous paid sick leave.
- ❤️ Health Coverage & Retirement - We offer robust medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverages and have a 4% match on Retirement.
- Your base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, experience, and geographic location.
Company info
- 📍check out our company website: joinvelora.com
- keela.co
- raisely.com
- aplos.com
- We move fast - we're an established, financially solid company, not an early-stage gamble - and we need people who enjoy wearing many hats, adding value, and working shoulder-to-shoulder with the wider engineering org.
- Share in production on-call as part of the team - we own what we get paged for, fix what keeps breaking, and keep toil low through automation.
- Many engineers have permission to deploy services to production and own everything around them (configuration included) because we've built the platform and guardrails that make that safe.
- We treat our internal developer platform as a product: we partner closely with engineers to understand pain points, requirements, and SDLC needs, then we go build the solutions and operate them.
This listing is sourced directly from Velora's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.