DevOps Engineer (Senior-Principal Levels)
Ottawa, CanadaFull-timePosted May 28, 2026
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DevOps Engineer (Senior-Principal Levels)Full-timeDepartment: DevelopmentWork Type: HybridCompany DescriptionSectigo is the most innovative provider of certificate lifecycle management (CLM), delivering solutions that help the world’s largest brands simplify how digital trust is managed and scaled. Sectigo’s automated, cloud-native CLM platform issues and manages digital certificates across enterprise environments, enabling organizations to reduce complexity, accelerate time to value, and strengthen security across environments. Sectigo is one of the largest, longest-standing, and most reputable CAs with more than 700,000 customers, including 65% of the Fortune 500. Sectigo holds six combined active leadership seats in the CA/Browser Forum and ETSI and brings two decades of delivering unparalleled digital trust.
Simplicity at Scale.
How we show up with each other and our customers every day is just as important, and we win as #OneSectigo by living out our core values - Support, Excellence, Communication, Teamwork, Integrity, Growth and Openness. We are committed to investing in our diverse teams where everyone understands their role and how they support our strategic goals, we drive operational excellence through scale and efficiency, and we strive to delight our customers and become the market leader in our industry. If you aspire to join a driven team that holds each other accountable to meeting our lofty goals and you’d like to be part of our growth story in delivering a market leading user experience, we’d like to talk to you.Job DescriptionWe are building next‑generation trust infrastructure—high‑performance systems that power certificate lifecycle and emerging industry trust models.We are looking for Senior to Principal level DevOps Engineers who focus on turning complex distributed systems into production‑grade services: defining how they are deployed, operated, scaled, and recovered in real-world environments. These systems require high correctness, resilience, and operational discipline from day one.You will work closely with engineering and architecture to ensure that production readiness is not an afterthought, but a core design input. This includes collaboration across the broader ecosystem and engagement with upstream components to help shape how modern trust infrastructure is actually operated in production.
This is a full-time position, working in a hybrid model, and reporting to our Ottawa office at least 3-4 days a week. The target compensation package for this role is between CAD 130,000 and CAD 170,000, subject to internal equity and years of experience. We may make further adjustments through an approval process if the targeted compensation range needs to be modified based on business needs and market trends.Who You AreYou think beyond deployment—you think in terms of operability, failure, and recoveryYou are disciplined about production reality, not just engineering intentYou enjoy working at the intersection of engineering and operations, shaping systems earlyYou can collaborate across teams and influence how systems are designed, not just runHere are the core functions, responsibilities, and expectations for this role: Define and deliver production readinessDefine what “production‑ready” means for trust infrastructure systems (availability, resilience, SLOs, failure recovery)Build and enforce observability standards (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting) aligned to real operational needsEstablish operational guardrails that prevent demo-to-production driftBuild deployment and operational systemsDesign and implement deployment pipelines, rollout strategies, and rollback mechanismsBuild Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for repeatable, reliable system deploymentEnsure systems are portable and deployable beyond single environments or cloud-native assumptionsValidate real-world behaviorDesign and execute load, stress, and failure...