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 business 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.

DevOps Engineer

Role: 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

Compensation:

• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits