DevOps Developer Sr

Skip to Content Sign In DevOps Developer Sr Req #23062 Toronto Metropolitan Area, ON, Canada Apply Share Job Description Posted Sunday, March 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM | Expires Tuesday, March 31, 2026 at 7:59 PM Dayforce is a global human capital management (HCM) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.    Our award-winning Cloud HCM platform offers a unified solution database and continuous calculation engine, driving efficiency, productivity and compliance for the global workforce.   Our brand promise - Makes Work Life Better™ - Reflects our commitment to employees, customers, partners and communities globally.    Effective November 1, 2025 this position is not open to residents of Quebec; applicants must reside in a province or territory of Canada other than Quebec to be considered. Any roles available in Quebec will be posted separately. This position will operate on a hybrid schedule, with the expectation that the successful candidate will work from our Toronto office three days per week. About the Opportunity  We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep experience in designing, building, and optimizing scalable infrastructure and deployment pipelines that support mission-critical enterprise applications.  The successful candidate will lead the automation of cloud environments, improve system reliability, and optimize deployment workflows across global distributed systems.  This role combines hands-on cloud engineering with technical leadership, working closely with software engineering, data, and security teams to deliver secure, performant, and resilient platforms for large enterprise customers.  What You’ll Get to Do  Infrastructure Architecture & System Design  Architect and implement scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure.  Analyze business and technical requirements to develop infrastructure specifications. Design IaC-based environments (Terraform, CDKTF) to ensure consistency and repeatability. Optimize system architectures for cost efficiency, performance, and resilience.  Cloud Platforms, Automation & CI/CD  Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, and deployment workflows.  Automate provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and scaling using modern DevOps tooling. Integrate distributed systems, data pipelines, and microservices into unified automated delivery processes. Implement blue/green, canary, and zero-downtime deployment strategies for enterprise-scale environments.  Reliability, Monitoring & Operational Excellence  Design and maintain observability frameworks (logging, metrics, tracing) using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent.  Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for infrastructure or deployment issues. Implement resilience strategies including auto-recovery, load balancing, redundancy, and failover. Establish operating procedures for monitoring, on-call rotations, incident response, and continuous system maintenance. Support large enterprises with distributed workforces of hundreds of thousands of users.  Security, Compliance & Governance  Implement DevSecOps best practices to secure cloud environments and CI/CD workflows.  Integrate security scanning, vulnerability assessment, and automated compliance checks. Ensure infrastructure and deployment processes align with SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and other regulatory standards. Collaborate with security teams to enforce least-privilege access, encryption standards, and secure data flow.  Collaboration, Leadership & Mentorship  Lead DevOps initiatives across cross-functional engineering, product, and data teams. Mentor junior DevOps engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and best practice recommendations. Partner with software engineers to ensure infrastructure aligns with application architecture and p ... (truncated, view full listing at source)