Devops Engineer

About Qorsa

Qorsa is a Canadian post-quantum cryptography and cybersecurity company building CasQade — a crypto-agile security platform protecting sovereign government, defence, financial, and critical-infrastructure networks against current and emerging cryptographic threats. We are headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, with a European subsidiary in The Hague, Netherlands. Our work spans post-quantum cryptography, explainable AI, AI-driven threat intelligence, cryptographic agility, hardware security, and distributed systems, with active engagements across Canadian defence, NATO, and allied partner organizations.

The Role

We are hiring a DevOps Engineer to run the build, release and deployment infrastructure for CasQade, our crypto-agile post-quantum platform, and for our AI applications. Our customers run our software in the cloud, on premises and on air-gapped networks.

You will make our releases reproducible and our integration tests reliable, and build the deployment tooling our solutions team uses at customer sites.

For a security company, how we build and ship software is part of what customers are trusting. Signed, reproducible, verifiable releases are central to the product, and you will own them.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the CI/CD pipelines that build, test, sign and publish our release artifacts
• Run the integration environment that deploys and tests the full platform end to end
• Build and maintain deployment tooling for containerised and Linux-based environments
• Run the infrastructure behind our AI applications, including model serving and the data stores it depends on
• Manage our cloud infrastructure as code, including demo and multi-node test environments
• Package releases for offline installation on air-gapped networks, with pinned dependencies and signed artifacts
• Operate the certificate authorities and secrets our internal environments depend on, including rotation
• Set up monitoring and logging for internal and demo environments
• Work with solutions architects on the tooling they need for customer deployments

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years in DevOps, site reliability or infrastructure engineering
• Strong Linux administration and networking, including firewalls, DNS and TLS troubleshooting
• Hands-on experience running Docker and Kubernetes in production
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and managing container registries
• Infrastructure-as-code experience on a major cloud platform
• Scripting in Bash and Python, and comfort reading and modifying application code
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working across disciplines
• Eligibility for Government of Canada security clearance (Secret level)

Strong Assets

• Experience deploying into air-gapped or classified environments
• Familiarity with PKI operations and HSMs
• Supply-chain security practices such as reproducible builds, image signing and SBOMs
• Experience running GPU workloads or AI inference in production

Compensation

We compensate exceptionally well — a strong base salary plus meaningful stock options in a rapidly growing company.

Benefits

• Dental care
• Extended health care
• Vision care
• On-site parking

Work Location: In person, Waterloo, Ontario.