Contract Software Engineer | JobGet | Remote (Canada)
Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">About JobGet</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">JobGet is the Social Job Network for the Everyday Worker. We’re the fastest-growing app for job seekers in the service industries. JobGet serves a massive and underserved population that traditionally has not been supported in growing their careers and financial well-being.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We help people get jobs and want to make that process as frictionless and straightforward for as many people as possible. We’re concentrated on providing the best experience, from job searching to community resources, financial support, and more.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Our mission is to help the Everyday Workforce thrive, and we look forward to you joining us in building a social job network.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Learn more about our culture <a href="https://www.notion.so/jobget/Hey-We-re-JobGet-3063c2e716c5471293a64439a73bd7ab" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here</a></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Who We Are</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’ve designed our values to be more than just buzzwords; they’re things we can <em>do</em>. We hope that our culture reflects our values by our commitment to living them every day.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Make a difference every day</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Teamwork – We make time to help colleagues across JobGet succeed.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Excellence – We set ambitious targets, put in extraordinary effort, and persevere until we have accomplished — or exceeded — our goals.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Innovation – We’re a team of creative, outside-the-box thinkers who thrive in a continuously evolving environment. To us, innovation is about questioning the status quo and always striving to do things better.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Have Unwavering grit</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Resilience – By remaining resilient and adaptable, we grow stronger as individuals and as an organization.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Accountability – We operate with an ownership mentality where everyone feels a sense of responsibility to make us better and always act in the best interest of JobGet.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Speed – We make decisions fast and execute them even faster. Bias for speed is one of our core strengths and a key advantage over our competitors.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Grow through curiosity & kindness</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Respect – We treat each other with mutual respect, kindness, and celebrate our differences.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Learning – We ask questions and seek to understand by being genuinely curious & communicative.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Culture – We believe that each of us is responsible for our culture. It requires self-discipline and the drive to contribute to something greater than ourselves.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What You’ll Do</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a Contract DevOps Engineer, you will be a key contributor in the development of our cloud infrastructure, release pipelines, scalability, availability, and security. This contract position will require 10 hours of engineering work a week – the hours will fluctuate each week with the opportunity to potentially work more hours and there may be some weeks where there will be no hours. The hourly rate range for this contract position is $70 – $100 CAD per hour. The contract will start as a 3-month contract with the potential to be extended.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are looking for someone who enjoys architecting systems and developing in an agile environment. You thrive in building scalable, flexible systems with an emphasis on improving maintainability. As a contractor, you will have a flexible work schedule to work closely with the rest of the engineering team and independently.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Responsibilities</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the development, testing, and deployment of applications.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Collaborate with software engineers to optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Kubernetes clusters and workloads.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Automate EKS operations using tools like Helm, kubectl, and AWS CLI</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Monitor system performance, security, and availability, and implement proactive measures to ensure optimal operation.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, test, and production environments.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Implement and maintain robust logging, monitoring, and alerting systems.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ensure security best practices are followed across all infrastructure and deployment processes.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Who You Are</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have 5+ years of experience in a DevOps role, with a strong understanding of DevOps principles and practices.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have the ambition and perseverance to take on any uncertainty and challenges that arise.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have experience working in a collaborative environment.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You are comfortable working autonomously and have the ability to effectively manage tasks and responsibilities with minimal supervision, showing strong self-motivation.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You want to make a difference. You constantly push yourself to be your best. You focus on solutions and arrive every day inspired to make an impact through your talents, creativity, and curiosity.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Benefits & Rewards</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Purpose-driven organization</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Remote-first</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Flexible work hours – our employees are in multiple time zones</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Awarded “2022 Best Place to Work” by INC. Magazine for exemplary manager effectiveness, perks, employee growth, and overall company culture</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">JobGet is the Social Job Network for the Everyday Worker. We’re the fastest-growing app for job seekers in the service industries. JobGet serves a massive and underserved population that traditionally has not been supported in growing their careers and financial well-being.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We help people get jobs and want to make that process as frictionless and straightforward for as many people as possible. We’re concentrated on providing the best experience, from job searching to community resources, financial support, and more.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Our mission is to help the Everyday Workforce thrive, and we look forward to you joining us in building a social job network.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Learn more about our culture <a href="https://www.notion.so/jobget/Hey-We-re-JobGet-3063c2e716c5471293a64439a73bd7ab" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here</a></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Who We Are</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’ve designed our values to be more than just buzzwords; they’re things we can <em>do</em>. We hope that our culture reflects our values by our commitment to living them every day.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Make a difference every day</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Teamwork – We make time to help colleagues across JobGet succeed.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Excellence – We set ambitious targets, put in extraordinary effort, and persevere until we have accomplished — or exceeded — our goals.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Innovation – We’re a team of creative, outside-the-box thinkers who thrive in a continuously evolving environment. To us, innovation is about questioning the status quo and always striving to do things better.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Have Unwavering grit</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Resilience – By remaining resilient and adaptable, we grow stronger as individuals and as an organization.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Accountability – We operate with an ownership mentality where everyone feels a sense of responsibility to make us better and always act in the best interest of JobGet.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Speed – We make decisions fast and execute them even faster. Bias for speed is one of our core strengths and a key advantage over our competitors.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Grow through curiosity & kindness</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Respect – We treat each other with mutual respect, kindness, and celebrate our differences.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Learning – We ask questions and seek to understand by being genuinely curious & communicative.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Culture – We believe that each of us is responsible for our culture. It requires self-discipline and the drive to contribute to something greater than ourselves.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What You’ll Do</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a Contract DevOps Engineer, you will be a key contributor in the development of our cloud infrastructure, release pipelines, scalability, availability, and security. This contract position will require 10 hours of engineering work a week – the hours will fluctuate each week with the opportunity to potentially work more hours and there may be some weeks where there will be no hours. The hourly rate range for this contract position is $70 – $100 CAD per hour. The contract will start as a 3-month contract with the potential to be extended.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are looking for someone who enjoys architecting systems and developing in an agile environment. You thrive in building scalable, flexible systems with an emphasis on improving maintainability. As a contractor, you will have a flexible work schedule to work closely with the rest of the engineering team and independently.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Responsibilities</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the development, testing, and deployment of applications.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Collaborate with software engineers to optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Kubernetes clusters and workloads.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Automate EKS operations using tools like Helm, kubectl, and AWS CLI</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Monitor system performance, security, and availability, and implement proactive measures to ensure optimal operation.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, test, and production environments.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Implement and maintain robust logging, monitoring, and alerting systems.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ensure security best practices are followed across all infrastructure and deployment processes.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Who You Are</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have 5+ years of experience in a DevOps role, with a strong understanding of DevOps principles and practices.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have the ambition and perseverance to take on any uncertainty and challenges that arise.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have experience working in a collaborative environment.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You are comfortable working autonomously and have the ability to effectively manage tasks and responsibilities with minimal supervision, showing strong self-motivation.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You want to make a difference. You constantly push yourself to be your best. You focus on solutions and arrive every day inspired to make an impact through your talents, creativity, and curiosity.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Benefits & Rewards</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Purpose-driven organization</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Remote-first</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Flexible work hours – our employees are in multiple time zones</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Awarded “2022 Best Place to Work” by INC. Magazine for exemplary manager effectiveness, perks, employee growth, and overall company culture</span></li>
</ul>