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Lead Platform Engineer/Architect - HPC, Kubernetes
EPAM Systems · Canada · Remote
CanadaExp: 10+ yrs155,000-170,000 CAD/yearlyRemote
Remuneration
Extended healthcare, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage, healthcare spending account, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance program, telehealth, short- and long-term disability, paid time off, RRSP with company match, maternity/parental/adoption leave top-up, employee stock purchase program, critical illness insurance, employee discounts, and LinkedIn Learning access.
Location
Canada · Remote
Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Build and operate large-scale, multi-cloud Kubernetes and high-performance computing platforms that support thousands of GPUs and protect compute capacity from costly failures. The role covers cluster lifecycle management, infrastructure automation across AWS, CoreWeave, GCP, and OCI, GPU job scheduling for training and inference, and site reliability practices including SLIs/SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
Benefits
Extended healthcare, prescription drug, dental and vision coverageHealthcare spending accountLife and AD&D insuranceEmployee assistance programTelehealthShort- and long-term disabilityPaid time offRRSP with company matchMaternity, parental, and adoption leave top-upEmployee stock purchase programCritical illness insuranceEmployee discountsLinkedIn Learning access
Qualifications
- At least 10 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud platforms, or high-performance computing.
- Expert Kubernetes experience at scale, including node pool sizing, scheduler debugging, CNI troubleshooting, and fleet-wide rolling upgrades.
- Advanced Python skills and experience building production-grade tools; Go, Rust, or C++ experience is a plus.
- Proficiency with Terraform for writing and reviewing infrastructure as code.
- Working knowledge of AWS EC2, S3, EFS, and FSx for Lustre.
- Strong site reliability engineering background, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
- CKA or CKS certification preferred.
Responsibilities
- Operate and scale Kubernetes platforms, including cluster lifecycle management, node pool optimization, and networking policies.
- Provision and manage multi-cloud HPC infrastructure through CI/CD pipelines across AWS, CoreWeave, GCP, OCI, and other providers.
- Design and maintain job scheduling systems for GPU training and inference workloads.
- Define SLIs and SLOs; build monitoring and alerting systems; participate in incident response and post-incident reviews.
- Develop production-quality tools and automation for multi-cloud infrastructure operations.
- Collaborate with networking, storage, security, and AI/ML platform teams.
Skills
AWSC++EFSEKSGCPGKEGoKubernetesOracle CloudPythonRustS3Terraform
Certifications
CKACKS
Languages
PythonGoRustC++
Industry
High-performance computingCloud infrastructure
Relocation
No