Company:
Method Integration Inc.
Location: Old Toronto
Closing Date: 04/08/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
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Opportunity
Our Development team is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who is passionate about engineering productivity, automation and building highly available and secure infrastructure systems. If you are a DevOps practitioner and love working collaboratively with engineering teams to solve complex infrastructure problems, come join us.
About Method
Method understands that businesses are unique and so it is our vision to create a small business platform that is easily personalized for each of our customers. Our flagship product is Method: CRM, a customer relationship management tool for small businesses that have outgrown their processes. Unlike other CRMs, the combination of Method’s deep QuickBooks sync and no-code customization engine enables businesses to achieve their optimal workflows.
At Method, doing fantastic work is just as important as looking out for each other and our community. From flex hours, full benefits and monthly team events to our Method: Gives program, we do our best to support both our employees and the community. You can learn more about Method and our team here!
The Role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll join our team in building the infrastructure needed to support the rest of our engineering department. You’ll help to create a stable foundation for our engineers to build off of and tools that are highly available, cost-efficient and extensible. As we continue to scale and embrace the DevOps culture, you will be looked to for guidance and mentorship.
We’re looking for someone who is excited to learn, a great team player, and strives to do the right things the first time around but not at the expense of quality.
- Help manage technical projects within the team
- Automate key processes, including build, release, and monitoring (alerting and observability), in the development and deployment of both infrastructure and products
- Participate in a rotating on-call duty to support the application
- Mentor and collaborate with team members and other staff to further develop a DevOps culture
- Building and maintaining technical solutions
- Ensuring our AWS-based platform continues to scale as we do
- A build champion, implementing changes that improve speed and quality
- Contributing to our monitoring, alerting, and recovery pipelines
- Design and enforce security policies for sensitive user data and our systems overall
What You Bring
Before you read this next section, we want you to know that we know the “ideal candidate” doesn’t exist — everybody has a unique background and skill set. Even if you don’t check every box below, we’d love for you to apply if you’re passionate about creating custom solutions and the opportunity at Method - we are building for the future and growth potential is a priority for us!
- 5+ years of relevant work experience in a SaaS environment
- Proficiency with AWS infrastructure tools (EBS, S3, EC2, Elastic IP, Route 53, VPC) or other cloud-hosted services
- Strong understanding of application development methodologies
- Experience in the testing and deployment of complex software solutions in a fast-paced, cloud environment
- Scripting (shell, python, ruby, chef) skills for monitoring and automation
- Experience working with SQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ or other message-brokers and ElasticSearch
- Experience with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Serverless computing, Microservices
- Experience with RUM, tracing, monitoring and other important metrics
- Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and pick up new technologies
- Highly analytical with a passion for finding solutions to tough problems
- Excellent communication and collaboration skill
What We Offer
- Fun team collaborative environment.
- Small company experience – working for a small company like Method gives you deep insight into the inner workings of how a software company operates, as you will be expected to be involved in many discussions: It is the kind of experience you can only get from a small company.
- Training – You will receive initial and ongoing training on Method’s products, policies and procedures
- Flexible hybrid policy.
- Great downtown location – Method is located right in the heart of Toronto’s young and vibrant ‘King West’ technology hub at the corner of Adelaide and Spadina Ave.
- Health care, vision and dental plan.
- Company and team social events.
Hybrid Policy
At Method we are working on a hybrid schedule. Employees work from the office 2-3 times each week from our office in downtown Toronto.
In your first 30 days you will:
- Complete Method’s bootcamp.
- Understand Method’s values and how our teams collaborate to drive results.
- Learn and become an expert of our internal communication tools, norms, and practices.
In your first 60 days you will:
- Participate in onboarding sessions to understand company culture, values, and goals.
- Learn the company's tools, technologies, and processes (e.g., programming languages, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems).
- Review existing documentation and codebase to gain a deeper understanding of current workflows.
- Identify potential areas for improvement in infrastructure, automation, and monitoring.
In your first 90 days you will:
- Begin working on assigned tasks and projects, starting with smaller contributions to existing workflows.
- Actively collaborate with team members to identify solutions and implement improvements.
- Propose and implement automation scripts or tools to streamline processes.
- Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues to ensure smooth operation.
Job type: Full-time, permanent.
Compensation: $120,000 to $130,000 annually
We thank all applicants in advance, and will contact only those who we wish to interview. No phone calls or agencies please.
Method is an equal opportunity employer for all — regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status or able-bodiedness. As part of our commitment to be an inclusive and accessible workplace, we’re happy to provide accommodations for candidates taking part in the selection process.
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