Welcome to Islands, where innovation meets execution, and bold ideas are turned into world-class products.
We're not your typical tech company—we're a Product and Venture Studio that doesn't just work with startups and scale-ups, we also seed our own SaaS ventures.
In just 18 months, we've scaled rapidly, building revolutionary software that's solving real-world problems across industries.
With a global team of 35+ brilliant minds spanning Canada and Brazil, we're expanding fast, and we're looking for someone like you to help lead the charge.
Our culture is simple:
Break the rules
— be bold, experiment, and push beyond what's expected.
Embrace imperfection
— progress trumps perfection in everything we do.
Have fun along the way
— whether it's product sprints or team retreats in exotic locations like Bali or Florianopolis.
Position Overview
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll be at the heart of Islands' technical innovation, architecting and refining cloud infrastructure that supports our groundbreaking products—both client-facing and internal.
You'll help design and scale microservice-based architectures, work hands-on with AWS, and ensure our continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines are airtight.
This is a flexible role, ideal for full-time or part-time candidates.
We're not just offering a job; we're offering the chance to redefine how the future works, while collaborating with a team that embraces experimentation and innovation at every turn.
Responsibilities
Design and implement scalable, highly-available cloud infrastructure using AWS and microservices architecture.
Collaborate with developers to manage cloud resources for our core projects, including Frameflow, our cutting-edge AI-powered QA Engineer.
Lead CI/CD pipeline development, ensuring continuous deployment with zero downtime.
Oversee infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and other modern tools.
Optimize for performance, security, and scale as our products expand to new markets.
Experiment with the latest DevOps technologies to continually improve our infrastructure.
Qualifications
5+ years of DevOps experience with hands-on cloud architecture in AWS.
Proficiency with microservices architectures and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
Expertise with CI/CD pipelines and automation.
You have built scalable IaaC in the past with Terraform or similar.
Experience with version control (Git, Mercurial, or SVN), reverse proxies, microservices, gRPC, K8s, and Kubernetes architecture, Github Actions.
Familiarity with our tech stack and experience as a developer in at least one of the following: React, Node.js, Typescript, and Python for Machine Learning.
Excellent problem-solving skills and an innovative mindset.
Experience with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Why Islands?
Unlimited vacation — because we believe work-life balance is essential for creativity and growth.
Micro-promotions — continuous growth through small, frequent promotions that keep you evolving.
Annual retreats to places like Bali, Florianopolis, and other Islandic locations.
Cutting-edge projects — you'll be working on products that are pushing the boundaries of what's possible in software development and AI.
Culture of innovation — we break things fast, fix them faster, and aren't afraid to experiment.
We work hard and have fun while doing it.
If you're ready to join a team that's building the future of tech and reshaping industries with AI-powered QA solutions, we'd love to meet you.
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