Dominion Dynamics is an Ottawa-based defence technology startup developing autonomous combat aircraft and an Autonomous Collaborative Platform to operate alongside manned fighters.
Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer — Cloud Location: Ottawa/Toronto, On-Site Reports to: Head of Security THE ROLE You own the cloud platform and delivery pipeline end to end. That means the CI/CD that takes a developer's commit and produces signed, reproducible artifacts — including the hardened edge images that ship to the field — the telemetry ingestion and fleet-state backend the edge syncs to, and the infrastructure underneath it all: IaC, orchestration, secrets, observability, identity. The constraint that runs through everything: sovereign and reproducible, not click-ops. No silent dependencies on foreign-controlled infrastructure; Protected B as the working baseline, with a credible path to higher. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Stand up and run the cloud platform: IaC, orchestration (Kubernetes or equivalent), networking, secrets, identity. - Build and maintain CI/CD for both cloud services and edge artifact delivery. - Own the sovereign hosting story: residency, classification baseline, and the architecture that keeps us defensibly Canadian. - Build supply-chain integrity in — signing, provenance, reproducible builds — alongside Security (you'll work directly with our Head of Security). - Run the telemetry ingestion and fleet-state backend that the edge syncs to. - Build the internal developer platform so prototyping is fast and the path to production is paved, not improvised. FIRST 6–12 MONTHS - Infrastructure as code, top to bottom — no snowflake servers, no manual provisioning, no "the one person who knows how prod works." - A sovereign hosting posture that holds up to scrutiny: Canadian data residency, Protected B as the working baseline, a credible path to higher. No silent dependencies on foreign-controlled infrastructure. - A CI/CD pipeline with supply-chain integrity built in: signed builds, verified provenance (SLSA-style), no unsigned artifact reaches edge or cloud. - A clean build-and-handoff seam to the edge team — the pipeline that produces hardened edge images is yours; the device baseline is theirs; the boundary is documented and automated, not tribal. - Observability that aggregates DDIL fleet telemetry sensibly: built for intermittent, bursty, bandwidth-constrained sync, not steady-state cloud assumptions. WHAT YOU BRING - Senior/Staff-level depth running production cloud infrastructure — owned a platform, not just shipped to one. - Strong IaC (Terraform or equivalent) and container orchestration (Kubernetes or comparable) in anger. - Real CI/CD ownership — pipelines designed, secured, and maintained, not just configured. - Supply-chain security instincts: signing, provenance, reproducible builds, secrets done right. - Comfort owning a foundational function and imposing order — would rather build the platform than inherit one. NICE TO HAVE - Experience with sovereign / data-residency-constrained or air-gapped/regulated environments — Canadian public sector, Protected B, or equivalent. - Defence or regulated-industry background. - Familiarity with the realities of DDIL telemetry — ingesting from fleets that aren't always connected. - Hands-on with self-hosted or Canadian sovereign cloud (vs. hyperscaler-default) infrastructure. No defence background required. We've hired people who didn't tick every box. If this is the work you want to do, please apply anyway. WHY JOIN US Building something meaningful starts with the right people. At Dominion Dynamics, you’ll: - Shape Canada’s future by building real defence capability for the CAF and our allies. - Make decisions that ship in a high-trust environment with short feedback loops and rapid iteration. - Move fast, field faster, and work directly with the operator — our systems are in the field with the CAF now. - Have an impact from day one with equity, responsibility, and direct access to leadership. If you’re curious, hands-on, and driven by the opportunity to make a difference, this is where you belong! COMPENSATION & BENEFITS - Competitive base salary and company equity - Comprehensive health benefits - Additional equity granted based on impact We use AI tools to support parts of the hiring process, including screening and reviewing responses. Final hiring decisions are always made by people and follow all applicable privacy and employment laws in Canada.