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Rise is Canada’s complete people management solution that gives employers everything they need to build loyal and productive teams—all in one place. We collaborate and co-create to build solutions that completely change how companies of all shapes and sizes manage their payroll, scheduling, time tracking, group benefits, recruitment, onboarding, and more.

At Rise, we’re changing how work happens and how people work. We’d love for you to join us and experience. the most positive, challenging, and transformative experience of your career.

About the role

Managing people is core to every business. That’s why Rise is on a mission to dominate the people-management software market with powerful software that is a cut above the rest. Rise provides an experience that is unique in our market by focusing on modern, intuitive software and outstanding client experience.

As a member of our infrastructure team, you’ll define and implement best practices on utilizing AWS to build, deploy, and manage SaaS products. You’ll also stay one step ahead by constantly monitoring our system health, security, and ensuring that our environments are ready for scale.

The day-to-day

• Work with the engineering team to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and underlying infrastructure code using Terraform.

• Mentoring software engineers to use infrastructure best practices when developing new services.

• Contribute to the cloud architecture of current and future products, by providing insights from an infrastructure perspective.

• Be a security advocate and continuously implement solutions to improve our application and infrastructure security.

• Willing to roll up sleeves and do whatever needs to be done to make this a great place to work.

About you

• At least 3-5 years experience in site reliability engineering

• You have deep knowledge and hands-on experience of working with Amazon Web Services

• You are well-versed in the CI/CD best practices in all stages of the software development lifecycle

• You have experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform

• You are proficient at Docker services and deploying them

• Doing repetitive manual tasks annoys you; You automate tasks to amplify your productivity

• You have experience in AWS platform security (auditing, the principle of the least privilege)

• You are comfortable with Unix-based systems, scripting, networking/web protocols, and architecture of highly distributed systems

• You have the ability to write production-ready software in JavaScript, Ruby or any other modern programming language

• Bachelors in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent

What Rise offers

• Rise is all about creating a positive company culture, both for our clients and our employees. We believe that happiness isn’t the cause of employee engagement, it’s the result.

• We offer a flexible hybrid work policy, allowing employees to work from home and also take advantage of our beautiful office space in the heart of Burnaby that includes standing desks, an onsite fitness facility, and a fully stocked kitchen.

• Rise believes that time off is just as important as time spent. We offer 3 weeks of paid vacation, flexible personal wellness days, as well as a day off for your birthday and your work anniversary.

• We support your growth with a personal $1000 learning and development budget to take courses, attend conferences, webinars, you name it!

• We offer no-wait benefits. This means that starting your first day, you have access to our comprehensive benefits package which includes dental, eye care, and $2000 in counseling coverage, among many other great health benefits.

At Rise, we care more about where you’re headed, not where you’ve been. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, identities, and orientations to apply.