Fall 2025 Co-Op Site Reliability Engineer

Ottawa, ON. SRE

Description

SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) is what you get when you treat operations as if it’s a software problem. The goal of SRE is to minimize the impact of outages and incidents and to ensure that services are always available and performing optimally for end-users. Signiant is looking for a co-op to work with our existing SRE team on the reliability of our SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions. We love automating all of the things and pride ourselves in our high-reliability record. Our solutions are used by millions of people globally.

If your browser history contains AWS blogs, r/devops, CI/CD providers, and the Google SRE handbook, this could be the position for you.

You’ll be working on

• SRE tooling, orchestration, and monitoring
• Microservice deployment, management, and monitoring in AWS
• Production change management
• Production SecOps

About Signiant:

Signiant is one of the fastest-growing companies in media technology — with customers that span the media and entertainment industry, including Disney, Ubisoft, the NHL, NFL. NBA, BBC, Viacom and more. Most of the global media supply chain relies on Signiant software, with our SaaS platform now connecting more than 50,000 companies that include Hollywood studios, sports teams and leagues, broadcasters, cable operators, streaming platforms, TV station groups, gaming developers, as well as smaller post-production houses, VFX, and media distribution companies. Any time you turn on the TV, watch a movie or a sporting event or play a video game, chances are Signiant software played a role in bringing that to life.

Signiant’s robust foundation — built on patented file acceleration technology and innovative use of the cloud that has helped transform the media industry — has made us both profitable and fast-growing. With our SaaS platform now connected to so many companies around the world, we’re poised for a new era of growth that is beyond fast file movement.

Must Haves

The ability to work on a variety of projects throughout the entire stack. One day you may be automating load balancer creation and the next, you’re troubleshooting why a service fails its health check.

• You believe everything can be improved.

This would be helpful

• Experience working with a public cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google)
• Scripting ability (Python preferred, but Bash and Node.js are ok)
• Understanding of API usage
• Container technologies (Docker)
• CI/CD tooling (Azure Pipelines, Bitbucket Pipelines, Circle-CI, Jenkins)
• UNIX/Linux sysadmin skills
• Metrics management/reporting/alerting (Datadog, CloudWatch, Nagios)
• Container orchestration (ECS, Kubernetes)
• Performance monitoring
• Experience with git
• Fanatical devotion to seeing problem resolution through to completion