Jobs / General Motors (GM)
Staff Software Architect – DevOps
General Motors (GM) · Markham, ON, Canada
Markham, ON, CanadaExp: 10+ yrs137,300-203,000 CAD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
$137,300 to $203,000 + Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and supplemental benefits for pregnancy, parental and adoption leave; Healthcare, dental, and vision benefits; Life insurance plans to cover you and your family; Company and matching contributions to a Defined Contribution Pension plan to help you save for retirement; GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for you, your family and friends.
Location
Markham, ON, Canada
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.
Job summary
General Motors is seeking a Staff Software Architect – DevOps to define the architecture, standards, and strategy for building, testing, and deploying virtualized vehicle software. This role involves leveraging expertise in CI/CD, embedded systems, and automation while expanding into cloud orchestration, IaC, progressive delivery, and data-driven simulation. The ideal candidate will broaden their technical impact and shape the future of GM’s virtual development platform.
Benefits
Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and supplemental benefits for pHealthcare, dental, and vision benefitsLife insurance plans to cover you and your familyCompany and matching contributions to a Defined Contribution Pension plan to helGM Vehicle Purchase Plan for you, your family and friends
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 10+ years of relevant experience in CI/CD, DevOps, automation, or software architecture
- Expertise in CI/CD architecture for large distributed systems
- Deep Kubernetes knowledge including cluster operations
- Strong Terraform/IaC experience with production-grade module design
- Experience with embedded or simulation workflows (vECUs, FMUs, SIL)
- Cloud architecture experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Knowledge of security frameworks such as SLSA or OPA
Responsibilities
- Architect enterprise-scale CI/CD systems for embedded, simulation, and cloud workloads
- Define branching, release, and quality-gate standards across multiple engineering domains
- Design GitOps-based delivery for multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
- Lead progressive delivery strategy including automated rollback and analysis
- Establish IaC architecture using Terraform modules and multi-environment patterns
- Integrate security and compliance into pipelines and artifact flows
- Define observability standards for pipelines, simulation workloads, and runtime systems
- Mentor DevOps and simulation developers across the organization
Skills
AWSAzureGCPKubernetesOpen Policy AgentTerraform
Degrees
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in EngineeringBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s or Master’s degree in related field
Relocation
No