Staff DevOps Engineer
Beacon Software is a permanent capital holding company which acquires and grows essential businesses. We are a profitable series B+ firm that combines great technologists, operators and M&A professionals to accelerate the scale of the ambition of the dozens of businesses we own and operate. We are supported by capital from tier-1 venture capital, crossover, and endowment investors as well as the founders of the leading technology companies from the past decade.
We are growing our team in Toronto, San Francisco, and New York. Apply below.
Staff DevOps Engineer
We’re looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our team and help lay the foundation for scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure across our growing portfolio of software businesses. This role is ideal for someone with strong cloud engineering expertise, a pragmatic mindset, and a passion for enabling teams to build and deploy with confidence. This is an exciting and entrepreneurial opportunity to join a fast-paced technology company with a steep growth trajectory.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, Azure, and other clouds
- Establish CI/CD pipelines and ensure fast, reliable deployments across multiple portfolio companies
- Set up and manage container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Docker
- Define and enforce infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response workflows (e.g., Grafana, PagerDuty)
- Partner with portfolio engineering teams to drive best practices in reliability, observability, and security
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to portfolio engineering teams
What We’re Looking For
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles
- Proven hands-on experience with cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, Azure
- Proficiency with containerization and orchestration tools: Docker, Kubernetes
- Strong background with infrastructure-as-code tools: Terraform, Ansible, Chef, etc.
- Experience setting up and managing secure secrets and credential stores (e.g., Vault)
- Solid understanding of incident management tools like PagerDuty
- Blend of startup agility and big-company maturity preferred
Our Values at Beacon Software
- Humility: We acknowledge that the path to getting to the right answer involves being wrong along the way. We have strong beliefs which are weakly held. We actively seek new ideas and believe we can learn from anyone at any time.
- Honesty: We are truth seeking in our approach to business problems. Business is a repeat game and we believe that human relationships generate alpha. We understand that trust is earned over a lifetime and can be lost in an instant.
- Hunger: We play to win. We hold ourselves to high standards and will not be outworked. We take pride in having a deep sense of responsibility to ourselves, each other, our partners, and our customers. We believe to whom much is given much is expected.
- Horizon: We seek to build a generational software company. This will take decades. We manage our expectations and those of our partners to take advantage of the 8th wonder of the world - compounding growth.
How We Use AI in Our Hiring Process: To ensure transparency, we want candidates to know that Beacon Software uses Artificial Intelligence and AI-enabled tools to assist with screening, reviewing, organizing and highlighting profiles and applications that match the key requirements for each role.
AI does not make hiring decisions: Every application is reviewed by a member of our team, and all decisions throughout the process are made by humans. We use AI to support efficiency and consistency, not to replace human judgment. We are committed to a fair, thoughtful, and equitable experience for every candidate.