Platform Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Define, construct, and manage the internal platform as a product tailored for developers and IT teams.

• Develop and implement a platform roadmap, service catalog, and self-service functionalities.

• Create reusable components and standardized patterns for environment provisioning, templates, and pipelines.

• Continuously enhance the developer experience by minimizing friction and promoting autonomy.

• Architect and oversee Azure and AWS cloud environments, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and resilience strategies.

• Lead the adoption of Infrastructure as Code utilizing Terraform, Bicep, and ARM.

• Define infrastructure patterns that are scalable, secure, and cost-effective.

• Collaborate with Security teams to integrate security within CI/CD pipelines and platform services.

• Implement automated security controls including SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and secrets management.

• Ensure adherence to regulatory and organizational requirements.

• Enforce policy-as-code, least-privilege access, zero-trust principles, and identity and access management.

• Utilize AI/ML for operational insights, anomaly detection, cost optimization, incident response, and enhancing engineering productivity.

• Establish and govern scalable, secure, and reusable integration patterns across APIs, messaging, and event-driven architecture.

• Drive maturity in CI/CD pipelines and release automation.

• Enable fully automated provisioning and deployment workflows.

• Implement observability practices encompassing monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.

• Support reliability targets, incident response, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Contribute to platform governance, standards, and alignment with Security, Architecture, and Development teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• A minimum of seven (7) years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering.

• At least three (3) years in leadership positions.

• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure and a working knowledge of AWS.

• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM).

• Proven experience in implementing DevSecOps practices and secure pipelines.

• Experience in designing and managing integrations and APIs.

• Familiarity with AI tools and their integration into engineering workflows.

• Experience with observability, monitoring, reliability engineering, and incident management practices.

• Strong understanding of identity and access management, including lifecycle and access control models.

• Experience working within Agile/DevOps environments.

• Preferred certifications: Azure Solutions Architect Expert / DevOps Engineer Expert.

• AWS Certifications are preferred.

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or similar qualifications are preferred.

• Experience in implementing platform engineering or internal developer platforms is preferred.

• Familiarity with AI/ML platforms or MLOps concepts is preferred.

• Experience with FinOps practices and cloud cost governance is preferred.

• Experience in regulated or security-sensitive environments is preferred.

• Candidates lacking some of the above qualifications are encouraged to apply nonetheless.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive and flexible health and dental benefits.

• RRSP Matching program at 1.5% of base earnings.

• Continuous learning and development opportunities.

• Generous time-off policies that promote work/life balance.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace with a proven record of high employee engagement and teamwork.

• The opportunity to engage in work that truly makes a difference.