DevOps Engineer - Canada Wide - Remote
Newton
| Company | Newton |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | CA |
| Remote | Remote |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 21 May 2026 |
| Last verified | 12 Aug 2026 |
| Source | The employer's own careers page (company_site) |
Description
Newton is a Canadian fintech platform enabling crypto trading and financial literacy. This DevOps Engineer role improves how the company builds, deploys, and operates systems across infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and operational tooling in an AWS-based environment supporting backend, frontend, and internal services.
What You'll Do
• Improve and maintain CI/CD, deployment workflows, and environment management across backend, web, and internal services
• Build, maintain, and scale infrastructure across AWS, ECS, Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Celery-based services
• Improve monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, tracing, and runbooks for production systems
• Automate repetitive operational work and improve internal tooling; maintain and enhance infrastructure as code
• Lead incident response and postmortems, drive follow-up actions to reduce repeat issues, and participate in on-call rotations for critical services
What You Need
• Experience running production systems in AWS or a similar cloud environment
• Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, load balancers, DNS, and service connectivity
• Comfort with Linux, shell scripting, Python, and Go
• Experience with Docker and ECS or Kubernetes; experience with GitHub Actions, Pulumi, Terraform, or similar tooling
Nice to Have
• Experience with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability tools
• Familiarity with Cloudflare or similar edge, networking, or traffic management tooling
• Good understanding of PostgreSQL, Redis, queues, async workers, and scheduled jobs