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Senior DevOps Engineer


Company : ZayZoon


Location : Toronto, Ontario


Created : 2026-01-22


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Join to apply for the Senior DevOps Engineer role at ZayZoon Who We Are At ZayZoon, we are on a mission to save 10 million hardworking employees 10 billion dollars. Weve created a financial empowerment platform that helps businesses of all sizes make a big impact on employee financial wellness. We offer a variety of financial wellness services, like earned wage access, that allows employees to access their earned wages ahead of payday. With 74% of ZayZoon customers reporting reduced financial stress, we know our solutions help lead to happier and more productive employees. ZayZoon was also recognized for its growth in the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, and top10 growth companies in Canada by CIX awards. Our recent funding extension has raised our SeriesB funding round to nearly $50million USD. About The Role Were looking for a DevOps Engineer who loves ownership, automation, and impact to directly power a fastgrowing product. In this role, youll design resilient, highperforming systems and raise the bar on reliability, security, and observability across the platform. Youll work at the intersection of engineering, data, testing, and security, partnering closely with teams to streamline deployments, strengthen compliance, and respond decisively to critical issues when they matter most. From building CI/CD pipelines and infrastructureascode to applying bestinclass DevOps practices, youll have the autonomy to shape how we build and operate in the cloud. If youre energized by solving complex problems, improving systems endtoend, and leaving things better than you found them, this is a role where your work will truly make a difference. What Youll Do Own and scale ZayZoons AWS infrastructure to ensure reliability, performance, and security. Design and automate infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation, build CI/CD pipelines and manage existing infrastructure stacks. Optimize our PostgreSQL databases for high availability and performance. Improve monitoring and observability, ensuring detection and proactive resolution of issues. Design secure, SOC2 and cybersecuritycompliant, scalable cloud services in AWS. Evaluate and remediate Critical and High CVEs across all our services on a moments notice. Work crossfunctionally across multiple teams such as development, data, testing, and security to convey concepts, build understanding, and improve deployment processes. Apply DevOps best practices in everything you do. You Bring 5+ years of cloud infrastructure engineering experience in AWS or GCP. 3+ years of experience with Python or an equivalent highlevel language (Go, Ruby, etc.). Knowledge of Bash and Structured Query Language (SQL). Experience with CloudFormation or other IaC tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or equivalent. Experience with CloudWatch, Elastic Container Services (ECS) on Fargate, CodePipeline, and native deployments. Experience building efficient CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or an equivalent. Ability to deep dive into CloudWatch, CloudTrail logging and other logging tooling such as Athena to investigate problems. Experience migrating compute from Intel to ARM architecture. Why Youll Love Working At ZayZoon Permanently Remote: Work from a desk, a coffee shop, or the great outdoors our jobs are fully remote, forever. Flexible Time Off: Our YoudoYou timeoff program offers up to 6weeks vacation and accommodates diverse lifestyles. Instant Benefits: Fulltime employees receive medical, vision, dental, increased mentalhealth coverage, and a wellness stipend from day1. Additional perks: Inclusive parentalleave topup, earned wage access, realtime salary market data, a culture of lifelong learning, and more. A Quick Note On Compensation We care about employee experience and pay is a big part of that. Were on a journey toward internal pay transparency, wrapping up by the end of Q1. Were focused on starting with our internal team. Were happy to share more details about our compensation philosophy and expectations during the hiring process. What You Can Expect From Us Every application will be reviewed by our team. Were committed to giving each application the attention it deserves. Well keep you in the loop and respond to every application. Go ahead apply with confidence; we cant wait to hear from you. Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at ZayZoon by 2x. Get notified about new DevOps Engineer jobs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada . #J-18808-Ljbffr