Senior DevOps Engineer (6-month Contract)

About us:

Spring Financial is a Canadian financial technology company focused on making everyday financial services simpler, faster, and more accessible.

We build technology that helps Canadians build credit, save money, and access lending products without unnecessary friction. Our platforms allow customers to apply and manage their finances online, by text, or over the phone, making the experience convenient and flexible.

Since launching in 2014, Spring has grown into one of Canada’s largest fintechs, with over 250,000+ product originations across credit-building products, personal lending, and mortgage solutions.

We’re a fast-growing, product-driven team that values practical solutions, strong execution, and thoughtful collaboration. We give people ownership, trust them to make decisions, and focus on building systems that scale reliably.

If you’re interested in working on real-world fintech platforms used by hundreds of thousands of Canadians, Spring offers the opportunity to make a tangible impact through well-built technology.

NOTE: This is a full-time, contract, hybrid position in downtown Vancouver. 3 set days in the office and 2 WFH.

Job Overview:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer (6-month contract) at Spring, your focus is to modernize our DevOps infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to improve reliability, security, and delivery speed.
You will lead targeted infrastructure initiatives, redesign and optimize CI/CD workflows, and strengthen observability, cost efficiency, and deployment automation. This is a hands-on role working closely with engineering, platform, and security teams to reduce operational risk and support scalable growth.

You’re expected to quickly understand Spring’s architecture, identify systemic issues, and deliver practical, well-documented improvements within a defined timeframe.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure.
• Own architecture and execution of high-impact platform initiatives (e.g., CD migration, zero-downtime deploys, logging architecture).
• Collaborate with Security, IT, and Infrastructure teams to define and implement org-wide access, audit, and reliability standards.
• Proactively identify technical debt, scalability concerns, and risk across multiple systems and services.
• Guide platform investments and architecture strategy in partnership with engineering and product leadership.
• Mentor engineers and set best practices in observability, incident response, and infrastructure evolution.

Requirements:

• Deep expertise in designing and managing CI/CD pipelines, with experience in modern practices like GitOps using tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
• Deep expertise in a major cloud provider, such as AWS, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.
• Extensive, hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes (and its variants like EKS), and Helm.
• Strong proficiency in a programming language like Python or Go for creating robust automation and tooling.
• Expert-level knowledge of Linux/UNIX systems administration, version control (Git), and internals.
• Advanced understanding of networking (VPC design, DNS, routing, service mesh) and cloud security (IAM, threat modeling, compliance automation).
• Deep understanding of observability, monitoring, and alerting using tools such as the Prometheus stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) and/or commercial platforms like Datadog.
• Proven experience leading infrastructure strategy and operating high-availability production systems.
• Strong leadership, cross-functional influence, and a business-first mindset when making technical trade-offs.

Competitive Compensation: $72–$77/hour (approximately $150,000–$162,000 annualized, based on full-time equivalent)

Please note: Upon applying, our Talent Acquisition team will review your resume. If you qualify, we will reach out to learn more about your experience and answer any questions you may have about the role, benefits, compensation, and more. Due to high application volume, we may not be able to respond to everyone.

Thank you for your interest! We appreciate your time and look forward to reviewing your application!