[Hiring] Sr. DevOps Engineer @Genesys

Role Description

Own internal platform tooling that enables hundreds of developers to deploy, operate, and scale services across global Genesys Cloud regions. You will build reliable automation, APIs, and developer experiences that improve deployment velocity, reduce operational risk, and strengthen service health at scale. At Genesys, we're transforming the customer experience landscape with empathy, AI innovation, and global impact, and this role helps ensure our cloud platform remains resilient, observable, and easy to operate. You will partner across engineering teams to influence platform standards and deliver improvements that make day to day development and operations faster and safer.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and evolve internal tooling and services that streamline deployments, health checks, and operational workflows across multiple worldwide locations.
• Design and maintain REST APIs and backend services in Python that enable self-service platform capabilities for engineering teams.
• Improve reliability and performance through pragmatic architecture enhancements, capacity planning, and scalability focused changes.
• Implement and maintain unit and integration tests to increase confidence, reduce regressions, and support continuous delivery.
• Strengthen observability by enhancing metrics, logging, and alerting to improve mean time to detect and mean time to recover.
• Provide thoughtful code reviews and technical guidance that raises quality and consistency across services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional platform stakeholders to gather requirements, validate solutions, and drive alignment on shared standards.
• Partner effectively with remote team members to deliver highly available, secure, and scalable features from design through production.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software development experience after completing formal education.
• Authorization to work in Canada on a permanent basis without current or future employer sponsorship.
• Strong backend engineering experience with Python, REST API design, and production grade service development.
• Experience building distributed systems with a practical understanding of scalability, availability, and fault tolerance.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, and CloudFormation.
• Experience with REST API frameworks such as Flask, Django, or equivalent.
• Experience with NoSQL data stores and designing data models for performance and operational simplicity.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD and automation tools such as Jenkins and Ansible.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing or maintaining internal developer platforms, platform tooling, or DevOps enablement products.
• Familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks and Node.js for building supporting web tooling or UI surfaces.
• Experience with Java in a microservices environment.
• Experience with additional cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience operating and improving production workloads, including incident response and operational excellence practices.

Benefits

• Comprehensive extended group health coverage.
• Generous paid time off, including vacation and personal leave.
• Retirement savings program with employer RRSP matching up to a prescribed maximum amount.
• Family-friendly benefits, including parental leave top-up and adoption assistance.
• Growth and development opportunities through access to learning resources and internal mobility programs.
• Exact details of these programs, including the conditions for eligibility, the amount of the benefit (including caps on benefits and customary pricing details), the length of the paid time off, etc. will be provided upon hire and is subject to Genesys policies.

Compensation

This role has a market-competitive salary with an anticipated base compensation range listed below. Actual salaries will vary depending on a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location. This role might also be eligible for a commission or performance-based bonus opportunities.

• $115,300.00 - $149,200.00

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Equal Opportunity Employer

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