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Platform Engineering Lead
DNAstack · Toronto, ON, Canada
Toronto, ON, CanadaExp: 8+ yrs165,000-185,000 CAD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
$165,000 to $185,000
Location
Toronto, ON, Canada
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Leads a platform engineering team responsible for the cloud infrastructure, delivery systems, security, and tooling that support engineers and customer environments for genomic data analysis. Sets team priorities, technical direction, and the roadmap while remaining hands-on across GCP and AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and CI/CD. Owns infrastructure costs and reliability, improves developer productivity through automation, and partners on SOC 2 controls tracked in Drata.
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision coverageThree weeks of vacationUnlimited sick daysMaternity and parental leave top-up programsRemote office setup stipendCareer development and learning supportEmployee stock option program
Qualifications
- At least 8 years of DevOps, site reliability, or platform engineering experience, including at least 3 years managing engineers.
- Experience setting technical direction and priorities for a platform or infrastructure team and managing senior engineers.
- Production experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and a CI system on GCP or AWS.
- Direct accountability for a cloud budget and demonstrated cost reductions.
- Experience improving developer productivity using measurable outcomes.
- Experience automating repetitive operational work.
- Experience with SOC 2 or a comparable control framework.
- Comfort working with health or genomic data subject to strict, audited access rules.
- Strong communication skills, including explaining technical trade-offs and costs to non-technical leaders.
- Eligibility to work in Canada.
Responsibilities
- Manage and develop engineers through one-to-ones, career planning, performance reviews, and hiring.
- Lead team planning, retrospectives, incident reviews, and shared on-call ownership.
- Set team priorities and plan the platform roadmap with Product.
- Guide platform architecture and technical decisions through design reviews, code reviews, and implementation.
- Own infrastructure budgets, cost visibility, forecasting, and vendor and licensing relationships across GCP and AWS.
- Define reliability objectives, on-call practices, incident response, and blameless reviews.
- Improve delivery performance through deployment and recovery metrics, reliable CI, preview environments, and safe deployments.
- Partner on SOC 2 technical controls, including access, secrets, CI, and audit evidence.
- Manage tooling, access, licensing, and budget for AI-assisted development.
Skills
AWSGCPHelmJavaKubernetesMakeTerraform
Work schedule
Flexible hours
Industry
GenomicsPrecision medicineBiomedical data sharing
Relocation
No