Senior Site Reliability Engineer (GCP)

Job Description

Lightspeed is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their SRE team in Montreal. This role focuses on empowering data teams with a scalable, secure, and high-performance infrastructure. The ideal candidate will be passionate about data security, reliability, and high availability.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Data teams to design and implement scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-efficient Cloud infrastructure.
• Ensure security in a holistic manner, including infrastructure, supply chain, and interaction with third-party systems.
• Contribute to the development of data and infrastructure self-service workflows.
• Advocate for best practices in terms of Infrastructure as Code, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Security.
• Perform competitive analysis for infrastructure frameworks and data processing solutions.
• Participate in day-to-day support and troubleshooting.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Strong experience managing production environments.
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong experience managing infrastructure with code, preferably Terraform.
• Proficiency in Bash, Go, or Python.
• Understanding of GCP Data and Security Components.
• Expertise in Linux/Unix and Networking.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with networking tools (VPN, VPC, VPC-SC).

Lightspeed offers:

• Equity for all Lightspeeders.
• Flexible paid time off and hybrid work policies (3 days in Montreal Office).
• Health insurance.
• Contributions to your pension plan - RRSP.
• Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year.
• Paid leave and assistance for new parents.
• Mental health online platform and counseling & coaching services.
• Training opportunities to grow your skills and career.
• Fully stacked kitchen (hot and cold beverages, meals served).
• Happy hours.