Jobs / Pixieset
DevOps Team Lead
Pixieset · Vancouver, BC, Canada
Vancouver, BC, CanadaExp: 5+ yrs117,800-160,650 CAD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
4 weeks of annual vacation, paid time off for office holiday closures, RRSP matching, health and lifestyle spending account, education budget, charitable donation matching, comprehensive benefits, company-issued MacBook, and home office budget
Location
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Leads day-to-day planning and delivery for a DevOps team while contributing hands-on to cloud infrastructure, reliability, shared platforms, and software delivery workflows. The role improves automation, CI/CD, deployment validation and rollback, monitoring, incident recovery, and operational practices, including the use of AI agents. The environment includes AWS, Cloudflare, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, and Grafana.
Benefits
4 weeks of annual vacationPaid time off for office holiday closuresRRSP matching2,000 annual health and lifestyle spending account1,000 annual education budget1,000 annual charitable donation matchingExtended health, critical illness, long-term disability, and life insuranceCompany-issued MacBookHome office budgetAnniversary rewardsComplimentary premium accountTeam-building activities and company-wide events
Qualifications
- Typically 5 or more years of hands-on experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, or related engineering work.
- At least 1 year of experience providing technical leadership and coordinating infrastructure team delivery.
- Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure, including networking, access controls, scalable web application architecture, and reliability; AWS experience preferred.
- Experience implementing and maintaining infrastructure as code and automation, including testing, review, safe rollout, and maintainability.
- Experience improving CI/CD pipelines and release workflows, including deployment validation, rollback, and recovery.
- Practical experience using AI coding tools or agents and evaluating their outputs.
- Hands-on experience with container platforms and observability tools.
- Track record of resolving recurring operational problems and reducing failures, manual effort, or repeated support needs.
- Ability to facilitate planning, balance competing demands, and build agreement with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Clear communication skills and experience supporting engineers through mentoring, feedback, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
Responsibilities
- Lead infrastructure initiatives from discovery and planning through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation.
- Improve cloud infrastructure, shared platforms, automation, and software delivery workflows.
- Use AI agents in engineering work, verify their outputs, and own the results.
- Establish team practices that clarify priorities, surface blockers, and balance planned delivery with operational needs.
- Shape the DevOps roadmap with engineering leadership and partner teams.
- Coordinate dependencies, clarify ownership, follow through on commitments, and communicate risks and tradeoffs.
- Provide technical guidance through design discussions, code and infrastructure reviews, pairing, and troubleshooting.
- Improve monitoring, incident coordination, recovery practices, documentation, deployment validation, and rollback.
- Participate in the on-call rotation.
- Mentor engineers and participate in hiring and onboarding.
Skills
AWSAWS CDKCloudflareCloudFormationDockerGitLabGitLab CIGrafanaHelmKubernetesTerraform
Work schedule
On-call rotation
Industry
Photography platform
Relocation
No