Devops Engineer

About Apertera

Apertera (formerly Alexa Translations) is leading the evolution of language solutions for high-stakes content. We partner with enterprises as an extension of their teams, combining professional expertise with Adaptive AI technology that is continuously refined by client context.

For more than twenty years, Apertera has set the bar for legal, financial, and regulatory translation, serving the most rigorous buyers, including over 75% of major national Canadian law firms, all major banks, and leading securities regulators. 

Apertera is Canadian-owned, ISO 17100 and SOC 2 certified.

Our core values: 

• Innovation
• Dedication
• Fanatical commitment to quality and service
• Resourcefulness
• Collaboration

We have built best-in-class Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine translation technology that is specifically trained for the Canadian legal and financial markets. It delivers complex, industry-specific translations with unprecedented quality and unmatched speed.

About the Role

As a DevOps Engineer at Apertera, you'll spend roughly half your time embedded directly within one of our agile delivery teams - pairing with developers, clearing delivery blockers, and making sure best practices in CI/CD, infrastructure, and observability are built into how the team ships. The rest of your time, you'll own the reliability and delivery pipeline for a service or component of your own, with real autonomy to make it better.

This is a hands-on role for someone who likes solving real production problems, automating away repetitive work, and helping teams ship with confidence - not just keeping the lights on, but actively raising the bar for how software gets to production. This role is a remote work from home position.

What You'll Do

• Partner with an embedded delivery team to clear blockers and champion best-practice, on-time releases to production
• Own the reliability, delivery pipeline, and infrastructure for a defined service or component
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling
• Manage infrastructure as code and configuration across cloud environments
• Participate in on-call rotation; monitor, alert on, and resolve production incidents
• Automate manual, repetitive operational work
• Build security and compliance practices into pipelines and infrastructure
• Collaborate closely with software engineers on deployment strategy and production readiness
• Maintain clear runbooks, documentation, and post-incident write-ups
• Mentor and support junior engineers on the team

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering role
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar)
• Comfort with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Scripting or programming ability (Python, Bash, Go, or similar)
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or similar)
• Solid Linux fundamentals and core networking knowledge
• Experience participating in on-call rotations and incident response
• Strong communication skills and comfort working embedded within cross-functional agile teams
• Security-focused experience (secrets management, vulnerability remediation, compliance frameworks)

Nice to Have

• Experience across multiple cloud providers or hybrid/on-prem environments
• Prior experience mentoring other engineers
• Relevant certifications (AWS, CKA, Terraform Associate, or similar)

What Apertera Offers

Benefits & Perks You’ll Love:

• Comprehensive Health Insurance: Including vision, dental, complementary therapies, and support for your overall well-being.
• Your Birthday Off: We celebrate your special day!
• 6 Personal/Sick Days: Take the time you need for your health or life’s unexpected moments.
• Work-Ready Equipment: Get the tools you need to succeed, provided upon request.
• Hybrid Work Model: Enjoy the best of both worlds with a mix of in-office collaboration and remote flexibility.
• Learning & Growth Opportunities: Training and resources tailored to your role and department.
• Supportive & Collaborative Team Culture: Work alongside team members who genuinely have your back
• Team Recognition & Action Awards: Celebrate wins and contributions in meaningful ways.
• Employee Referral Program: Earn rewards for bringing amazing talent to our team.

Equal Opportunity

Apertera is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to building an inclusive team.