SRE / DevOps Platform Engineer

Since our founding in 2012 Lotlinx has consistently pioneered advancements in the automotive landscape. We specialize in empowering automobile dealers and manufacturers by providing cutting-edge data and technology delivering a distinct market advantage for every single vehicle transaction. Today we stand as the foremost automotive AI and machine learning powered technology excelling in digital marketing risk management and strategic inventory management.

Lotlinx provides employees with a dynamic work environment that is challenging team-oriented and full of passionate people. We offer great incentives to our employees such as competitive compensation and benefits flex time off and career development opportunities.

Role Summary

Were looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who combines deep Kubernetes expertise with a passion for cloud native systems and developer experience. This is a high-impact role where youll help design and evolve the core Lotlinx Developer Platform a self-service ecosystem built for speed consistency and reliability.

If you love enabling engineers through automation reusable patterns and rock-solid platform foundations this is your opportunity to shape how all of Lotlinx builds and ships software.

Key Responsibilities

Architect and develop our centralized platform API using Python/FastAPI to abstract complex infrastructure workflows enabling developer self-service for automated deployments and on-demand resource provisioning.

Drive adoption of cloud native tooling and best practices across the engineering organization from service meshes to observability stacks.

Participate in the design and evolution of our Kubernetes platform managing and optimizing EKS clusters for resilience scalability and cost-efficiency.

Implement and maintain GitLab CI/CD ArgoCD and Kustomize pipelines to ensure consistent automated deployments.

Define golden paths for common service types enforcing consistency through opinionated well-documented templates.

Build reusable Crossplane compositions and templates to empower developers to provision infrastructure via self-service APIs.

Strengthen the platforms security posture with Vault Kyverno and cloud-native policy enforcement.

Enhance reliability traceability and performance monitoring using the LGTM stack (Loki Grafana Tempo Mimir).

Leverage Istio to improve traffic management and observability across microservices.

Participate in the on-call rotation ensuring production systems meet strict SLA and uptime expectations.

Contribute to ongoing modernization and maintenance of Helm-based deployments.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in DevOps SRE or platform engineering.
• Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes from cluster scaling and networking to runtime debugging and controller patterns.
• Deep familiarity with the cloud native ecosystem including tools like ArgoCD Helm Vault Crossplane Kyverno and Istio.
• Hands-on experience building or contributing to developer platforms or internal PaaS systems.
• Strong programming experience with a scripting language especially for automation and platform tooling.
• Solid foundation in infrastructure-as-code with Crossplane Terraform or Pulumi.
• Proven success operating production environments with robust SLAs observability and proactive reliability engineering.
• Expertise in AWS services including EKS for enterprise-grade container orchestration IAM for robust identity governance and Route53 for global traffic steering underpinned by a deep mastery of EC2 optimization and secure VPC Networking architectures.

Nice to Have

CKA Certification

Experience architecting multi-cluster Kubernetes or hybrid cloud deployments.

Prior work with service mesh and secure network automation.

Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing infrastructure.

Enthusiasm for advancing the platform engineering discipline through internal advocacy and documentation.

A strong sense of ownership and passion for delivering great developer experiences.

The salary range for this position is $108000 to $119000 CAD with an annual target bonus.

Lotlinx provides a comprehensive benefits package.

This job posting is for an existing vacancy.

Lotlinx is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.

Lotlinx is not currently able to offer sponsorship for employment visa status.

Lotlinx is headquartered in Peterborough NH and has locations in Holmdel NJ Manitoba Ontario and British Columbia Canada in addition to a large team spanning from the US to Canada.

Our success relies heavily on our customers but also our dedicated talent that continuously moves our platform forward. We value our employees their abilities and seek to foster an open cooperative dynamic environment where the team and company alike can thrive.

Required Experience:

Senior IC