Senior DevOps Engineer

About the role

ABOUT US

Localcoin, founded in 2017 with headquarters in Toronto, is on a mission to simplify the process and experience of buying or selling digital currencies globally. We envision bringing digital currency to the mainstream financial market through partnerships with leading corporate and franchised retail spaces. With terminals across Canada, Poland, and the APAC region—including Australia, Hong Kong, and New Zealand—Localcoin is now the fastest-growing Bitcoin ATM operator in the world.

At its core, Localcoin believes that everyone should be able to own cryptocurrency and have a deep understanding of blockchain technology. As a member of our rapidly growing team, you'll join a talented, dynamic group of team members who will encourage you to learn, grow, and thrive in your career every step of the way.

If you're a self-starter looking to hone your skills in a startup environment that fosters innovation, transparency, and team connectivity, we look forward to hearing from you!

THE ROLE

Salary Range: $150,000 - $180,000

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep AWS expertise, multi-account architecture experience, and strong leadership capability. This role owns our cloud infrastructure strategy, CI/CD systems, security posture, observability stack, and infrastructure governance across production and regulated environments.

This is a hands-on technical role with a strong emphasis on execution (80%), complemented by mentoring, coaching, and knowledge transfer (20%) to other team members. The role is responsible for designing and delivering resilient systems that meet SLAs while maintaining compliance and operational excellence.

This position will be based out of our Etobicoke, ON office, with an expectation of working in-office two days per week.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

Cloud Architecture & Multi-Account Strategy

- Design and manage AWS Organizations across multiple accounts

- Architect multi-region, highly available systems aligned with defined SLAs

- Design secure VPC/private subnet strategies, Transit Gateways, VPN/NGINX tunnels

- Implement expert-level IAM governance (least privilege, Verified Permissions, SSO)

- Continuously evolve cloud architecture to support fintech-grade reliability and compliance

Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD Leadership

- Lead advanced Terraform implementations across multi-account environments

- Design scalable module architecture and state management strategies

- Own and scale GitLab CI/CD pipelines and SaaS runners

- Build AMI pipelines and infrastructure automation using Python, Go, or Bash aiming deterministic builds

- Improve deployment velocity without compromising security

Containers, Orchestration & Observability

- Architect and operate Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS environments

- Manage ECR, image scanning, auto-scaling