Senior Platform Engineering Specialist

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Senior Platform Engineering Specialist

CANARIE has an immediate opening for a Senior Platform Engineering Specialist. The Senior Platform Engineering Specialist is accountable for advising and leading the evolution of managed cloud infrastructure automation and governance, ensuring a reliable, scalable and secure platform to host our containerized applications and services.

This is a new full-time, permanent position that reports to CANARIE’s Manager, Software Development.

The salary range for this role is between $125,000 to $162,000.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain platform infrastructure for high availability applications that power CANARIE’s ability to offer networking, cybersecurity and identity management services for the benefit of research and higher education in Canada
• Define platform direction, set standards and align with business goals
• Drive optimization and ensure platform uptime and scalability
• Guide and mentor teams and champion modern practices
• Collaborate with Development, IT, and Security teams to deliver robust, observable solutions
• Travel may occasionally be required
• Other related duties and responsibilities, as required

The Ideal Candidate

To excel at CANARIE, you have a demonstrated capacity to work collaboratively on teams and are also an energetic self-starter with the self-motivation to work independently. You have excellent oral and written communication skills, and can count time management, problem solving, and managing multiple priorities as your strengths. You also share a dedication to CANARIE’s core values: Service, trust, Resilience, Inclusion, Discovery and Excellence.

What You Bring

Education and Experience

• College diploma or university degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a suitable combination of education, experience, or other relevant training
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience in DevOps/Platform Engineering
• Experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD automation with operational support (monitoring/alerting) of one or more hosted services
• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure (Private cloud, and AWS or Azure) using IaC tools like Terraform/OpenTofu

Skills

• Ability to clearly communicate technical information
• Proven ability to communicate effectively with all levels in the organization
• Excellent consultative, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to gain trust and credibility from stakeholders

Technical Proficiencies

• Expert in engineering secure, reliable and scalable platforms for cloud native applications and services
• Automation expertise (programing/scripting)
• Advanced working knowledge of the following:
• Docker, Orchestration/Management (Kubernetes/Rancher), Provisioning/DevSecOps (GitLab/Fleet/Helm), Observability/Analysis (Prometheus/Grafana/Nagios)
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Projects
• Private cloud (VMware, OpenShift) and public cloud (AWS, Azure)
• Detection and mitigation of cybersecurity vulnerabilities
• Strong working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite
  

Come Work with Us

We are committed to employment equity and encourage anyone who can contribute to the diversification of ideas and perspectives to apply. For applicants with disabilities, accommodation is available upon request throughout the recruitment and assessment process.

If this seems to be the right fit for you, please send a note and your resume to [email protected], and include the position title in your subject line.

We thank all applicants; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.