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Role: Platform/Infrastructure/ DevOps Engineer

Location: Canada Remote CST time zone

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Job description:

Project Description:
We are building a platform engineering function from the ground up and this role is at the center of it. As a Senior Platform Engineer you will be a founding team member with a clear, three-part mission: fully rearchitect and codify our cloud estate on AWS and Azure, stand up a world-class SRE and observability practice, and build an Internal Developer Platform with golden paths that make shipping software fast, safe, and self-service. This is a high-ownership individual contributor role. You will work directly with the Platform Engineering Manager to translate strategy into production infrastructure, drive adoption across engineering teams, and set the technical bar for how the platform is built and operated.

Key Responsibilities:



Cloud Modernization - Rearchitect & Codify
Migrate all existing AWS and Azure infrastructure to OpenTofu/Terraform and Ansible; establish module standards, remote state, and GitOps-based plan/apply pipelines - no unmanaged resources
Audit the cloud estate against the AWS and Azure Well-Architected Frameworks; produce a remediation backlog and drive it to completion across networking, IAM, landing zones, account structure, and cost governance
Implement policy-as-code (OPA/Conftest, AWS SCPs, Azure Policy) to enforce security, tagging, and compliance guardrails at the platform layer - governance embedded, not bolted on
Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules for compute (EKS, AKS, EC2), networking, storage, databases, and identity as shared building blocks for all engineering teams
Define FinOps standards: tagging taxonomy, cost allocation dashboards, rightsizing recommendations, and reserved capacity planning across both clouds
SRE & Observability
Design and implement the full observability stack: metrics (Prometheus/Datadog), logs (Loki/OpenSearch), traces (Tempo/Datadog APM), and dashboards (Grafana) - instrumented end-to-end via OpenTelemetry
Define SLIs and SLOs for all platform shared services and critical applications; build error budget dashboards and burn-rate alerting - alert on symptoms, not raw metrics
Establish the SRE practice from scratch: incident runbooks, post-incident review templates, and at least one chaos engineering exercise (AWS FIS or equivalent)
Partner with engineering teams to instrument their services, define meaningful alerts, and build operational dashboards - reliability is a shared responsibility, not a platform team tax
Build capacity planning models for compute and storage so engineering leadership can make data-driven scaling decisions
Internal Developer Platform & Golden Paths
Deploy and operate a developer portal (Backstage, GitHub or equivalent) as the single front door: service catalog, scaffolding templates, runbooks, API docs, and on-call ownership all in one place
Build and maintain golden paths for the highest-frequency developer workflows: new service creation, Kubernetes deployment, database provisioning, secrets management, and CI/CD pipeline setup - opinionated defaults with escape hatches for legitimate edge cases
Own the CI/CD platform layer: standardized pipeline templates (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), reusable workflow libraries, container image build and scan pipelines, and environment promotion workflows with security scanning (SAST, Snyk) built in by default
Own Kubernetes platform operations: EKS and/or AKS cluster lifecycle, Helm chart standards, admission controllers, RBAC, network policies, and service mesh (Istio or Linkerd)
Build the self-service provisioning layer - Backstage scaffolder actions and Terraform automation so developers can provision approved resources without raising a ticket
Measure adoption and run regular feedback sessions with engineering teams; iterate on golden paths based on real friction, not assumptions
Cross-Cutting Responsibilities
Partner with peer managers and teams to plan and support migration of existing workloads onto the platform; provide hands-on migration support, not just documentation
Embed security by default across all platform work: IaC scanning (Checkov, tfsec), secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault), RBAC, and container image hardening
Write clear technical documentation, architecture decision records (ADRs), and runbooks; raise the documentation bar for the whole team
Mentor and support more junior platform engineers; contribute to architecture reviews and build-vs-buy decisions alongside the Platform Engineering Manager



Required Skills:
5+ years in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering with direct production ownership on AWS and/or Azure
IaC: Deep OpenTofu/Terraform proficiency: module authoring, state management, workspace strategy, remote backends, and CI/CD integration; Terramate a plus
Kubernetes: Strong Kubernetes operations: EKS and/or AKS cluster lifecycle, Helm, admission controllers, RBAC, network policies, and autoscaling
Observability & SRE: Hands-on observability experience with two or more of: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry - including SLI/SLO definition and alert engineering
CI/CD: CI/CD platform experience: GitHub Actions pipeline authoring, reusable workflow design, and container build/scan pipeline ownership
GitOps: GitOps: ArgoCD or Flux for Kubernetes continuous delivery; progressive delivery patterns (canary, blue-green) a strong plus
IDP: IDP experience: Backstage or equivalent developer portal, GitHub, scaffolding templates, service catalog design, or self-service provisioning tooling
Security: Security-first mindset: policy-as-code, IaC scanning, secrets management, container hardening, and shift- left security practices
Strong communication and documentation skills; comfortable presenting architecture decisions to engineering peers and leadership

Nice to Have
SRE background: chaos engineering (AWS FIS, Chaos Monkey), error budget management, incident command, and capacity planning
Service mesh depth: Istio or Linkerd - mTLS, traffic management, and observability integration
FinOps tooling (Kubecost, CloudHealth) and reserved capacity planning experience
Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure basics: LLM API integration or model serving, as the platform will need to support these workloads
Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, CKA/CKAD, Azure Administrator/Solutions Architect, HashiCorp Terraform Associate
Python or Go for platform tooling and CLI development

Thanks and Have a nice day,

Anantha Krishnan

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