Remote DevOps engineer work from Canada, on US teams
What US teams look for in a DevOps engineer, how working their hours from Canada plays out and how the Ryz Labs process works.
By the Ryz Labs team · Updated October 2026
Ryz Labs places senior DevOps engineers on US companies’ teams. You work remotely from Canada, on US business hours, with the same tools, meetings and leads as the rest of the team.
What the work is like
Day to day, you work with one US company’s team: the same tools, the same backlog and the same technical leads. You join planning, review code and present your work in demos. The teams Ryz works with include Fortune 500 engineering teams.
How your day lines up with a US team depends on your province:
- Ontario and Quebec (Eastern Time): the same clock as New York.
- Atlantic Canada: one hour ahead of New York in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI.
- Manitoba (Central Time): the same clock as Chicago; Saskatchewan matches Chicago in winter and Denver in summer.
- Alberta (Mountain Time): two hours behind New York.
- British Columbia (Pacific Time): the same clock as California.
Teams expect senior engineers to raise risks early, scope their own work and keep stakeholders informed without being asked.
What US teams look for in a DevOps engineer
Platform and DevOps teams keep the infrastructure everything else runs on. They want senior engineers who automate, measure and improve reliability without slowing product teams down.
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Pulumi or CloudFormation.
- Kubernetes: EKS, GKE or AKS, Helm and sound rollout practices.
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Argo CD.
- Cloud: networking, IAM and security on AWS, GCP or Azure.
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog and OpenTelemetry.
- Reliability and cost: SLOs, incident response and FinOps.
Topics worth reviewing
Before your interviews, have clear answers on topics like these:
- Structuring Terraform modules across environments.
- Rollout strategies in Kubernetes: rolling, blue-green and canary.
- Defining SLOs and alerts that do not turn into noise.
- Investigating an incident end to end and writing the postmortem.
How the selection process works
- Apply. You apply through the Join the team page with your experience and main stack.
- AI-assisted technical interview. A structured technical conversation about your real experience. People make the decisions, not the AI.
- Interviews with Ryz recruiters. They go deeper into your experience, how you work and how you communicate.
- Introduction to the team. When a team matches your profile, we introduce you. The last step is a final interview with that team.
The bar is high: only the top 1% of the tens of thousands of engineers we interview make it onto a team.
Who we look for
- Senior experience with DevOps, with systems in production.
- Clear, confident spoken and written English for daily teamwork.
- Based in Canada and available during US business hours.
- Ownership: taking an ambiguous problem all the way to production.
- Comfort with asynchronous work across time zones.
Join the team
Take the next step
Apply through our Join the team page and tell us about the systems you have shipped.
Join the team →FAQ
DevOps or SRE?
Both come up. DevOps leans toward automation and delivery; SRE toward reliability and incident response. In practice they overlap a lot.
Which cloud should I know best?
All three major clouds come up. The key is knowing one deeply and understanding the concepts that carry over: networking, identity and cost.
Do I need to relocate or get a US visa?
No. You work remotely from Canada. What you need is a solid connection, a quiet place for meetings and availability during US business hours.
Do you work with junior engineers?
Ryz works mainly with senior engineers: people who have shipped systems to production and can work independently on a US team.
Can I apply with experience in more than one stack?
Yes. Many engineers know several technologies well. In the interviews we go deep on what you know best and what you have shipped.
What does Ryz Labs do?
Ryz Labs places senior engineers and AI pods on US companies’ teams. Founded in 2021, it is headquartered in Calabasas, California (Los Angeles area), and has more than 200 people.
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