SRE / DevOps Engineer senior F/H

As part of Accelerate at Iver, you are at the absolute forefront of technology and work on exciting digitization and transformation projects with market-leading customers. We are passionate about realizing digital opportunities in the cloud. Together with our customers, we close the gap between aspiration and successful implementation. Communication is an essential part of the work since we work closely with our customers. As an employee at ELITS you will become a part of a great team that always responds to the customer with humility, and at the same time is very proud of what we deliver.
ELITS is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer (Streaming & Distributed Systems) for our operations in Canada. This position is fully remote within Canada.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be a key member of our platform team, responsible for designing, building and operating scalable, cloud‑native infrastructure and tooling that powers real‑time and distributed systems. You will work closely with development, data and operations teams to ensure reliable streaming, high availability and smooth deployments in production.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable frequent, reliable releases and automated testing.

• Implement and manage real‑time streaming data platforms (for example, Kafka or similar technologies) for low‑latency, high‑throughput workloads.
• Design and operate infrastructure with a strong focus on reliability, performance and cost‑efficiency across cloud and on‑prem/hybrid environments.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimize Linux‑based systems, containers and services, including performance tuning and incident response.
• Document architectures, runbooks and operational procedures, and contribute to continuous improvement of processes and tooling.

10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering or similar roles.

• Strong hands‑on experience with streaming technologies and real‑time data processing (for example, Apache Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar or equivalent).
• Solid background in distributed systems: microservices, event‑driven architectures, scalability and fault tolerance.
• Strong understanding of hardware and infrastructure concepts (servers, networking, storage) and experience with on‑prem or hybrid environments.
• Deep knowledge of Linux/Unix operating systems, system internals, performance and troubleshooting.
• CI/CD pipelines: Observability: monitoring, logging and alerting (for example, ELK/EFK, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (Azure, AWS or GCP); Azure experience is a strong asset.
• Good understanding of networking (VPN, IPsec, load balancing, DNS, certificates).
• Experience with agile ways of working and tools such as JIRA and Git.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting abilities across multiple layers (application, infrastructure, network).
• Ability to understand users’ technical issues and provide clear, pragmatic recommendations.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written).

Experience with Java or another backend language (for example, Go, Python) in a DevOps/platform context.
• Experience with system testing or test automation for distributed systems and APIs.
• Qualities:
Are communicative, collaborative and have a positive attitude towards customers and colleagues.

• Are a team player who is organized and strives for high quality and reliable results.
• Are proactive in identifying improvements in reliability, performance and developer experience.

If you are a social, flexible and structured person with a strong interest in streaming, distributed systems and modern DevOps practices – and you enjoy working with the latest cloud‑native technologies – send us your application today!
Position is open to Canadian residents (persons with a valid work permit in Canada).