The DevOps Engineer will enhance CI/CD workflows, manage AWS infrastructure, automate operations, and improve system reliability and monitoring.
Say hello to Newton! We're changing how Canadians trade crypto. Our goal? To make financial freedom something everyone can achieve. We give our customers the tools and knowledge they need to navigate the crypto world.
At Newton, you'll work with a remote team spread across Canada, but you'll never feel distant. Ready to be part of something meaningful? Join a team that’s all about pushing boundaries and getting things done.
Some of our values:
● Customer first mindset - Commitment to integrity and transparency to our users!
● A dynamic team fueled by collaboration uniting our strengths to overcome any obstacles. Together we build success. We persevere, adapt, and come back stronger, turning obstacles into opportunities.
● We strive for continuous improvement and embrace creativity and encourage experimentation. We push the boundaries of what’s possible and continuously explore new ideas, technologies, and solutions.
Role Overview:
We are searching for a DevOps Engineer to improve how we build, deploy and run our systems. This role works across infrastructure, CI/CD, observability and operational tooling in an AWS-based environment spanning backend, frontend and internal services.
Responsibilities will include:
• Improve and maintain CI/CD, deployment workflows, and environment management across backend, web, and internal services
• Build, maintain and scale infrastructure across AWS and container based services
• Improve monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, tracing, and runbooks
• Work with engineers on safer deploys, rollback plans, and recovery from failures
• Automate repetitive operational work and improve internal tooling
• Maintain and improve infrastructure as code and deployment tooling
• Help improve failover planning, recovery procedures, and backup/restore testing for critical systems
• Support production systems and take part in on-call for critical services
• Manage and scale infrastructure across AWS, ECS, Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, and Go/Python-based services
• Lead incident response and postmortems, and drive follow-up actions to reduce repeat issues
• Improve reliability, resilience, and operational readiness across critical systems
• Improve and maintain CI/CD, deployment workflows, and environment management across backend, web, and internal services
• Build, maintain and scale infrastructure across AWS and container based services
• Improve monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, tracing, and runbooks
• Work with engineers on safer deploys, rollback plans, and recovery from failures
• Automate repetitive operational work and improve internal tooling
• Maintain and improve infrastructure as code and deployment tooling
• Help improve failover planning, recovery procedures, and backup/restore testing for critical systems
• Support production systems and take part in on-call for critical services
• Manage and scale infrastructure across AWS, ECS, Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, and Go/Python-based services
• Lead incident response and postmortems, and drive follow-up actions to reduce repeat issues
• Improve reliability, resilience, and operational readiness across critical systems
Who you are:
• Experience running production systems in AWS or a similar cloud environment
• Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, load balancers, DNS and connectivity between services
• Comfort with Linux, shell scripting, Python, and Go
• Experience with Docker and ECS or Kubernetes
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Pulumi, Terraform, or similar tooling
• Experience with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability tools
• Good understanding of PostgreSQL, Redis, queues, async workers, and scheduled jobs
• Familiarity with Cloudflare or similar edge, networking or traffic management tooling
• A practical approach to automation, reliability and day to day operational work
• Experience with on-call and incident response for business-critical systems
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, infrastructure, and data layers
At Newton, we celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance during the application process, please don’t hesitate to reach out!
Similar Jobs
Big Data • Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Financial Services
Develop backend tools and systems that improve batch development, testing, workflow efficiency, and reliability. Responsibilities include breaking projects into deliverable phases, collaborating with product and engineering partners, monitoring operational metrics, supporting on-call operations, debugging code, conducting code reviews, and contributing to team development activities.
Top Skills:
AWSKotlinKubernetesMySQLPython
Automotive • Professional Services • Software • Consulting • Energy • Chemical • Renewable Energy
Drive B2B sales of wind software, data products, APIs, and analytics across North America. Responsibilities include prospecting, pipeline management, technical demonstrations, discovery, solution scoping, negotiation, forecasting, account expansion, conference representation, and collaboration with marketing and product teams. The role requires wind energy expertise, consultative selling skills, technical communication, and experience managing complex software or data sales cycles.
Top Skills:
APIsCRMData AnalyticsGisOpenwindRenewable Asset Monitoring Platform (Ramp)WindnavigatorWindographer
.png)
eCommerce • Fintech • Hardware • Payments • Software • Financial Services
Lead complex card-acquiring projects from design through production, building reliable payment systems, tooling, testing frameworks, and network integrations. Work hands-on with ISO messages, routing, authorization, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, interchange, and tokenization. Set technical direction, mentor engineers, improve reliability, participate in on-call operations, and establish standards adopted across teams. The role requires deep acquiring expertise and experience operating large-scale financial systems.
Top Skills:
Ai Coding AgentsCard-Network IntegrationsIso 20022Iso 8583Payment Tokenization
What you need to know about the Chicago Tech Scene
With vibrant neighborhoods, great food and more affordable housing than either coast, Chicago might be the most liveable major tech hub. It is the birthplace of modern commodities and futures trading, a national hub for logistics and commerce, and home to the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association. This diverse blend of industry influences has helped Chicago emerge as a major player in verticals like fintech, biotechnology, legal tech, e-commerce and logistics technology. It’s also a major hiring center for tech companies on both coasts.
Key Facts About Chicago Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 245,800; 5.2% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: McDonald’s, John Deere, Boeing, Morningstar
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, fintech, software, logistics technology
- Funding Landscape: $2.5 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Arch Venture Partners, MATH Venture Partners, Jump Capital, Hyde Park Venture Partners
- Research Centers and Universities: Northwestern University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Institute of Technology, Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
