Publicis Groupe Canada is the Canadian subsidiary of Publicis Groupe, the second largest communications group in the world and a global leader concentrated within four main activities: Communication, Mediaa, Data and Technology. Publicis Groupe Canada represents the vision of a set of collaborative and integrated agencies that offer expertise and insightful services to many of the biggest brands in North America.

Canadian brands include: Publicis Canada (Publicis Canada, Hawkeye, Razorfish, Publicis Health, ThePubProductions, Nurun, Publicis Sports & Entertainment), Publicis Media (Starcom, Spark Foundry, Zenith), Leo Burnett (Leo Burnett Canada, Ove Brand Design, Leo Burnett Design), Saatchi & Saatchi (Saatchi & Saatchi Canada, Synergize, TPM),MSL Canada/North Strategic (North Strategic, MSL Canada, Notch Canada) and Publicis Sapient.

Overview

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate reliable, scalable, and secure cloud-native platforms. This role focuses on enabling high-performing engineering teams through modern DevOps practices, automation, and platform engineering.

The role also supports AI/ML and Generative AI workloads, ensuring models and AI services can be deployed, monitored, and scaled safely in production.

You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that solutions align with business objectives, technical requirements, and operational best practices.

Responsibilities

- Design, build, and operate highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure.
- Own infrastructure‑as‑code using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe,



and repeatable application deployments.
- Support containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, and managed container platforms.
- Optimize infrastructure for availability, performance, resilience, and cost efficiency.
- Implement best practices for networking, compute, storage, and scalability.

Reliability, Observability & Operations

- Establish monitoring, alerting, and logging standards using modern observability tools.
- Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and operational KPIs.
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Security & Governance

- Embed security best practices into pipelines and infrastructure (DevSecOps).
- Partner with security teams to implement access control, secrets management, and compliance controls.
- Ensure platforms meet enterprise security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
- Act as a technical mentor for DevOps and engineering teams.
- Guide teams through architectural reviews and operational best practices.
- Collaborate with software engineering, architecture, data science, and product teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

Qualifications

- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
- Strong hands‑on experience with Azure cloud platforms.




- Deep experience with CI/CD, infrastructure‑as‑code, and automation.
- Proficiency with Linux, networking concepts, and distributed systems.
- Experience operating production systems at scale.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across teams.
- Experience with Kubernetes platform engineering and cluster operations.
- Familiarity with zero‑trust, identity, or secrets management solutions.

Nice to Have

- Previous Martech experience
- Exposure to AI/ML or MLOps environments, including supporting model training, inference, or CI/CD for ML workloads
- Familiarity with Generative AI or LLM platforms (for example, inference services or RAG architectures)

Additional information

- Location & Eligibility: Candidates must be based in the Greater Toronto Area with valid Canadian work authorization of at least 12 months.
- Hybrid Work: This role follows a hybrid mode with 3 days per week at our Toronto office: 111 Queen St. E, Suite 200, Toronto, ON M5C 1S2.
- Flexibility & Global Mobility: Work remotely for up to 6 weeks per year from any of our 50+ global offices through our Work Your World program.
- Compensation: The salary range for this position is $90,000–$125,000 per year, based on experience, skills, and relevant certifications. We believe in pay transparency and are committed to offering competitive, market-aligned compensation.
- Time Off:

- 3 weeks vacation, with additional paid closure between Christmas and New Year's

- Extended long weekends for provincial holidays — we give you both the Monday and Friday so you get a full

📌 Sr. DevOps Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Publicis Groupe Canada
📍 Toronto