DC Senior DevOps Engineer – Toronto

Senior DevOps & Release role at Deloitte Canada in Toronto.

Role brief: DevOps roles summary based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do:

• Set AWS platform priorities and establish shared practices for security, reliability, cost, and delivery speed.
• Build and maintain Terraform infrastructure, including reusable modules and safe changes across environments.
• Own EKS from cluster setup through upgrades, security, capacity planning, and production incident response.
• Apply AI tools to infrastructure and operations with checks that protect security, compliance, and change control.
• Improve release processes, incident handling, and monitoring alongside application, security, and architecture teams.

What you bring:

• At least six years in software, systems, DevOps, or SRE work, including four years using AWS in production.
• Experience building and operating AWS Kubernetes platforms directly, including cluster lifecycle, networking, security, and troubleshooting.
• Strong Terraform skills, plus experience with CI/CD, multi-environment releases, and production incident resolution.
• Ability to shape technical direction through standards and recommendations, and assess AI use and its production risks.

Who this fits:

This senior, hands-on role suits an engineer who can guide platform practices while working directly in infrastructure, clusters, pipelines, and incidents. The position is permanent and hybrid, with locations across Canada including Toronto.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and socialize DevOps priorities (security, reliability, cost, velocity).
• Drive a pragmatic AI strategy for the team.
• Design, review, and implement changes using Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Build, operate, and own the Kubernetes platform on AWS.
• Operate and improve adjacent services.
• Partner with development teams on release processes and deployment strategies.
• Participate in on-call or escalation rotation as defined by the team.
• Improve monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Work with security, architecture, and engineering leads to implement least-privilege access.

About the team:

Healix is an AI-native venture built inside Deloitte, creating a governed AI workflow layer that lifts the operational burden on hospital staff.

You are someone who has these skills, experience & qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), including at least 4 years working with AWS in production environments.
• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Amazon EKS.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and safe deployment practices.
• Experience managing production incidents.
• Demonstrated interest in applying AI to platform engineering and DevOps workflows.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

It would be great for you to have some of these nice to haves:

• AWS certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional or AWS DevOps Engineer Professional.
• Kubernetes certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
• Experience with Helm, Helmfile, policy-as-code frameworks.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS, multi-tenant architectures.
• Experience defining and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Exposure to cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices.

Total Rewards:

The salary range for this position is $105,000 - $175,000, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs.

Our promise to our people:

Deloitte is where potential comes to life. We provide flexible working options to support you and how you can contribute.

Deloitte encourages applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of communities across Canada.