DevOps / Cloud & Security Engineer — Multimodal AI Platform

**Location:** Fully remote (Canada) **Duration:** Milestone-based freelance contract **Overview** An organization working with very large volumes of imagery, video, and audio is building a next-generation platform to help its experts make sense of it all. The platform is a modular, multimodal AI system that performs first-pass analysis automatically — computer vision on imagery and video, speech-to-text on audio, and language models for summarization and metadata — then hands findings to human experts who review, correct, and approve before anything is finalized. This is a software architecture, integration, data-engineering, application, and secure-deployment effort that assembles best-in-class existing AI services into one robust production platform. You will own the path from commit to secure, containerized production and carry the security bar for a platform handling sensitive data. **Key Responsibilities** - Build CI/CD and containerized components (Docker/Kubernetes) that stay portable across approved cloud environments - Implement authentication, authorization, encryption in transit and at rest, secrets management, and audit logging to a high standard - Establish observability — logging, monitoring, metrics, and health — that makes operations and troubleshooting easy - Deliver secure, repeatable deployments, working with the Lead Architect to map security and compliance requirements into the build **Required Qualifications** - 6+ years in DevOps/cloud with a clear security focus (SecDevOps) - Demonstrated delivery of secure, containerized, cloud-native deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP - Hands-on IAM, encryption, secrets management, and audit/logging in production - Experience meeting formal security or compliance frameworks on a real project - Prior comparable secure deployments, with references **Preferred Qualifications** - Compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST) - Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and policy-as-code - Accessibility/security validation tooling - Experience delivering complex software systems for government or regulated industries **Work Location & Requirements** - Fully remote position - Must be based in Canada and able to contract as an independent professional - Freelance / independent contractor engagement (not employment) - Selection includes a review of background and past work, followed by a short technical assessment / coding exercise - Application requires CV and a short note on the most comparable system delivered, including links, case studies, or references