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Platform Engineering – Data Infrastructure III
Peoples Group · Toronto, ON, Canada
Toronto, ON, CanadaExp: 6+ yrs130,000-140,000 CAD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
$130,000–$140,000 annually, plus profit sharing, RRSP matching, and benefits
Location
Toronto, ON, Canada
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Build and operate a production-grade data platform that helps data engineering teams deliver changes safely and efficiently. The role covers infrastructure as code, shared CI/CD pipelines, availability and disaster recovery, observability and SLOs, and security controls for sensitive data, using technologies such as Terraform, Kubernetes, and cloud services on AWS, Azure, or GCP. It also focuses on reducing developer friction and taking promising platform technologies from proof of concept to production.
Benefits
Profit sharingRRSP matchingBenefits from day onePaid time off
Qualifications
- At least 6 years of experience in Platform, DevOps, or SRE roles
- Experience building a greenfield platform end to end and explaining its architectural decisions and trade-offs
- Hands-on Terraform expertise at scale, including module design, state management, and drift control
- Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including upgrades, networking, RBAC, and incident response
- Experience designing shared CI/CD pipelines for engineering teams
- Experience with cloud-native services on AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience building observability with SLOs, actionable alerts, and dashboards
- Experience securing platforms that handle sensitive data and PII
- Scripting and automation skills in Python or Go
- Experience writing a postmortem that changed team practices
- Clear written and verbal communication of technical trade-offs
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve the data platform
- Design and maintain infrastructure as code, reusable modules, and consistent environments
- Create CI/CD golden paths for safe, independent delivery by data engineers
- Automate provisioning, access management, and platform changes
- Own platform availability, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
- Maintain SLOs, monitoring, and alerting across storage, compute, and orchestration
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead blameless postmortems
- Implement security controls for access, secrets, encryption, and data masking
- Maintain audit readiness through automated, policy-driven controls
- Improve data engineers' developer experience and reduce delivery friction
- Contribute to solution design and peer code reviews
- Evaluate technologies and bring successful solutions from proof of concept to production
Skills
AirflowAWSAzureDatadogdbtDockerGCPGitHubGitHub ActionsGitLabGitLab CIGoGrafanaIAMJenkinsKafkaKubernetesMakeOpen Policy AgentPrometheusPythonSnowflakeTerraformTerragrunt
Certifications
AWS certificationsAzure certifications
Languages
PythonGo
Work schedule
Monday to Friday, typically 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.Flexible start and end times
Industry
Financial services