Senior Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the AWS account segmentation, creating distinct and isolated environments for production, staging, and development.

• Lead the migration of the Aurora database to production, with assistance from the infrastructure advisor.

• Oversee and enhance ECS Fargate services, RDS clusters, ElastiCache, SQS queues, and ALB configurations.

• Manage Terraform infrastructure as code.

• Strengthen IAM, incorporating developer permission sets, production access controls, and enforcing least-privilege principles.

• Conduct audits and secure public S3 buckets.

• Activate AWS Config and Security Hub across all accounts.

• Maintain SOC 2 Type 2 readiness in collaboration with Sprinto.

• Coordinate the schedule for external penetration tests.

• Enhance GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, focusing on build times, test reliability, and deployment speed.

• Create PR stack environments for independent testing by product teams.

• Lead the transition to Docker Compose-based local development environments to replace shared pre-production setups.

• Incorporate AI-assisted testing into the CI pipeline.

• Manage CloudWatch dashboards that encompass ALB, ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and target group health.

• Facilitate post-incident reviews, ensuring every incident results in a runbook entry.

• Collaborate with product teams to allocate platform work as part of a continuous sprint strategy.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of engineering experience, with at least 3 years dedicated to infrastructure and platform engineering.

• Extensive AWS knowledge — including ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, and account architecture.

• Proficient in Terraform — capable of writing infrastructure as code and understanding its significance.

• Solid background in CI/CD — familiar with GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines, and environment management.

• Security-focused — adept at strengthening systems while minimizing friction for product engineers.

• Experience with observability tools — such as CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar alternatives.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Medical coverage.

• Access to educational resources and courses.