Dayforce is a global human capital management (HCM) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.
Our award-winning Cloud HCM platform offers a unified solution database and continuous calculation engine, driving efficiency, productivity and compliance for the global workforce.
Our brand promise - Makes Work Life Better™ - Reflects our commitment to employees, customers, partners and communities globally.
This position will operate on a hybrid schedule, with the expectation that the successful candidate will work from our Toronto office three days per week.
About the Opportunity
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with deep experience in designing, building, and optimizing scalable infrastructure and managing CI/CD pipelines that support mission-critical enterprise applications.
The successful candidate will lead the automation of cloud environments, improve system reliability, and optimize deployment workflows across global distributed systems.
This role combines hands-on cloud engineering with close collaboration with software engineering, data, and security teams to deliver secure, high-performance, and resilient platforms for large enterprise customers.
If you are a generalist interested in many aspects of DevOps, this is a great role for you.
What you'll get to do
Infrastructure Architecture & System Design
- Implement scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure on Azure.
- Analyze business and technical requirements to develop infrastructure specifications.
- Design IaC-based environments (Terraform, CDKTF) to ensure consistency and repeatability.
- Optimize system architectures for cost efficiency, performance, and resilience.
Cloud Platforms, Automation & CI/CD
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, and deployment workflows.
- Automate provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and scaling using modern DevOps tooling.
- Integrate distributed systems, data pipelines, and microservices into unified automated delivery processes.
- Implement blue/green, canary, and zero-downtime deployment strategies for enterprise-scale environments.
Reliability, Monitoring & Operational Excellence
- Design and maintain observability frameworks (logging, metrics, tracing) using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent.
- Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for infrastructure or deployment issues.
- Implement resilience strategies, including auto-recovery, load balancing, redundancy, and failover.
- Establish operating procedures for monitoring, on-call rotations, incident response, and continuous system maintenance.
- Support large enterprises with distributed workforces of hundreds of thousands of users.
Security, Compliance & Governance
- Implement DevSecOps best practices to secure cloud environments and CI/CD workflows.
- Integrate security scanning, vulnerability assessment, and automated compliance checks.
- Ensure infrastructure and deployment processes align with SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and other regulatory standards.
- Collaborate with security teams to enforce least-privilege access, encryption standards, and secure data flow.
Collaboration, Leadership & Mentorship
- Lead DevOps initiatives across cross-functional engineering, product, and data teams.
- Partner with software engineers to ensure infrastructure aligns with application architecture and performance needs.
- Drive operational improvements, tooling modernization, and automation-first culture across the organization.
Skills and Experiences We Value
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 1~5 years of progressive DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering experience, preferably in enterprise-scale SaaS environments or with startup experience.
- Demonstrated experience designing, deploying, and supporting large cloud-based systems.
- Proven experience leading or coordinating DevOps initiatives or infrastructure projects.
Strong proficiency with:
- Terraform, CDKTF, or other IaC tools
- Docker, container orchestration
- CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions)
- Cloud platforms (GCP and/or Azure)
Strong understanding of:
- Networking, DNS, load balancing, VPC design
- Linux systems administration
- Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)
- Security best practices and automated compliance frameworks
- Experience with Node.js and Vue applications
- Experience optimizing distributed systems for scale and performance
- Familiarity with scripting and automation using Python and Bash
- Experience supporting complex enterprise environments with high availability and large user bases
What’s in it for you
Dayforce is fueled by the diversity of our talented employees. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider and embrace ALL individuals and what makes them unique. We believe our employees should be happy and healthy, with peace of mind and a sense of fulfillment.
We encourage individuals to apply based on their passions.
Dayforce encourages personal and professional growth. We offer excellent time away from work programs, comprehensive wellness initiatives and recognition through competitive pay and benefits.
With a commitment to community impact, including volunteer days and our charity, Dayforce Cares we provide opportunities for you to thrive both in your career and personal life. Our focus is not just on your job but on supporting you to be the best version of yourself.
This job posting is for an existing vacancy
Artificial intelligence may be used in the screening, assessment, or selection of applicants for this position.
About the Salary Ranges
Please note that the salary range mentioned in this job description should serve simply as a guide. The final compensation offered may vary based on a variety of factors, including bonuses and/or incentives, or a candidate’s experience, skills, budget and location. Our company is committed to providing a fair, equitable, and competitive package that reflects the value an individual brings to the organization.
Proficiency in English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with English-speaking stakeholders, co-workers, managers and/or clients across the world. Further, our back office support teams, including but not limited to Human Resources, are primarily English speaking. Employees need to be able to communicate with these departments in English to appropriately administer their business relationship. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking co-workers, managers, stakeholders and/or clients, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.
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