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Motion Recruitment

DevOps Lead/ EKS

Hybrid

Oakville, Canada

Senior

Full Time

21-12-2025

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Skills

Leadership GitLab CI/CD DevOps Monitoring Test Architecture Organization Azure AWS Recruitment AWS Cloud CI/CD Pipelines Gitlab CI Terraform GitLab CI/CD Infrastructure as Code

Job Specifications

Join a mission-driven financial services organization focused on making homeownership more accessible for Canadians.

As a DevOps Engineering Lead, you’ll play a critical role in building and maintaining a secure, automated AWS cloud environment—enabling self-service capabilities and enterprise-wide DevSecOps practices.

This role offers the opportunity to lead Infrastructure as Code initiatives, architect cloud-native patterns, and manage complex CI/CD pipelines supporting over 50 AWS services. You’ll serve as the SME for all things cloud infrastructure, drive IAM and monitoring strategies, and collaborate with teams across the business to ensure scalable, reliable service delivery. Ideal for an experienced engineer, open to working hybrid in Oakville and looking to step into a hands-on leadership role with national impact.

Required Skills & Experience

5+ years of experience designing and implementing IaaS and PaaS solutions in AWS, including expertise with services like Lambda, S3, EKS, and Transfer Family
Deep proficiency in modern DevOps practices, including Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, containerization, and serverless architecture
Proven ability to lead infrastructure incident resolution and system design conversations in production cloud environments

Desired Skills & Experience

Experience with monitoring and code quality tooling such as SonarQube, Xray, and Artifactory
Familiarity with IBM MQ, Device42 (CMDB), and test strategy planning for infrastructure components
AWS Solutions Architect certification and/or Azure cloud experience

Daily Responsibilities

Hands-On Engineering: 70%
Team Collaboration & Cross-Functional Work: 30%

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

Posted By: Adrian Cronk

About the Company

Motion Recruitment delivers IT Talent Solutions for Contract, Direct Hire, Managed Solutions and Statement of Work to all of North America from our 21 delivery centers. Our high-touch, specialized, team-based recruitment model’s success is proven through our exemplary track record in filling the most challenging IT positions for startup and enterprise clients alike. Our hyper-specialized tech focus results in a truly consultative approach for both our clients and candidates, within our recruiting areas of expertise: Software... Know more