Staff Software Architect (DevOps)

Location: Hybrid, with a minimum of three days per week in the Markham or Oshawa office, Canada

Salary: CAD 137,300–203,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops automotive products and virtual development platforms focused on safer, more sustainable, and less congested transportation.

What you will do

• Architect enterprise-scale CI/CD systems for embedded, simulation, and cloud workloads.
• Define branching, release, and quality-gate standards across engineering domains.
• Design GitOps-based delivery for multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
• Lead progressive delivery strategies with automated rollback and analysis.
• Establish Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code architecture and observability standards.
• Integrate security and compliance into pipelines and artifact flows while mentoring DevOps and simulation developers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in CI/CD, DevOps, automation, or software architecture.
• Expertise in CI/CD architecture for large distributed systems.
• Deep Kubernetes knowledge, including cluster operations, and strong production-grade Terraform module design experience.
• Experience with embedded or simulation workflows such as vECUs, FMUs, or SIL.
• Cloud architecture experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, plus knowledge of security frameworks such as SLSA or OPA.

Nice to have

• Experience designing multi-tenant simulation platforms and optimizing costs for large-scale compute workloads.
• Understanding of automotive data flows and synchronization patterns.
• Experience with event-driven systems, serverless orchestration, model-based development, or code-generation pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role; candidates must not require sponsorship now or in the future.
• Paid time off, vacation days, holidays, and supplemental pregnancy, parental, and adoption leave.
• Healthcare, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits.
• Company and matching contributions to a defined contribution pension plan.
• GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for employees and their families.