Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Calgary, AB (In-office, Launch & Amplify cycle)
Type: Full-time
About BigGeo
BigGeo is redefining geospatial intelligence through advanced data infrastructure, real-time visualization, and AI-ready DGGS (Discrete Global Grid System) technology. We serve industries where spatial data drives critical decisions — from telecommunications and climate science to defense and emergency response.
We build the platforms that help organizations work with massive geospatial datasets at speed, with accuracy, and in compliance with the highest security standards.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Platform & Infrastructure team. This group owns the systems that keep BigGeo’s products online, scalable, and secure — including the clusters, pipelines, and cloud environments that process terabytes of geospatial data daily.
You’ll be responsible for ensuring BigGeo’s Kubernetes environments are built for high availability, optimized for AI-ready workloads, and designed to handle global-scale data processing. From cluster design to deployment automation, you’ll be a key driver of reliability and performance across the platform.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
- Build, operate, and optimize Kubernetes clusters, including provisioning, upgrades, autoscaling, and performance tuning.
- Design multi-cluster and hybrid-cloud strategies to support high availability and disaster recovery.
- Implement GitOps workflows (Flux or equivalent ) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Helm, Kustomize).
- Manage networking, ingress controllers, and service meshes (e.g., nginx, traefik).
- Orchestrate persistent storage solutions (Ceph/Rook, OVH Object Storage).
- Deploy and maintain observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger) for proactive monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Enforce Kubernetes RBAC, network policies, and container security scanning to align with SOC 2 and privacy compliance.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to streamline releases and improve developer self-service tooling.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have
- 3+ years in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or platform engineering roles.
- 2+ years managing production Kubernetes clusters at scale.
- Hands-on experience with Helm, Kustomize, Operators, and GitOps tools (Flux or equivalent).
- Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python) and infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform).
- Proficiency in cloud infrastructure (Azure required; AWS or GCP a plus).
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, ingress routing, and multi-region design.
- Experience with observability and monitoring in Kubernetes environments.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001) and secure container practices.
- Bonus points for CKA/CKAD certification, GPU workload orchestration, or geospatial data system experience.
