About the Role
Audi Red is seeking a Platform Architect on contract until December 24th, 2026, to design and evolve Audi RED’s internal cloud platform, DevOps practices, and AI-driven toolchain. This role focuses on building scalable, secure, and observable systems on AWS, enabling engineering teams to leverage modern infrastructure and AI capabilities. The position is hands-on, concentrating on platform development, system design, and internal enablement, rather than client delivery. It involves building systems and platforms around existing AI/LLM capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve cloud-native platform architecture on AWS
- Define and implement DevOps standards, including CI/CD, release strategies, and automation
- Lead adoption of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation)
- Establish observability and APM standards (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.)
- Design and enforce secure-by-default architectures (IAM, networking, secrets management)
- Drive reliability and scalability across distributed systems
- Design and build the internal agentic platform
- Implement Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar patterns
- Design agent orchestration patterns (multi-step workflows, tool calling)
- Implement RAG systems using internal data sources
- Establish best practices for prompt design and evaluation
- Build guardrails and safety mechanisms for AI systems
- Integrate agent workflows into internal services and APIs
- Establish end-to-end observability across platform and agent systems
- Optimize performance and cost across AWS and LLM usage
Requirements
- Strong experience designing cloud-native systems on AWS
- Experience with CI/CD and DevOps tooling
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code
- Strong understanding of cloud security (IAM, networking, secrets management)
- Experience operating distributed systems in production
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS)
- Familiarity with agentic workflows and orchestration patterns
- Understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Experience with RAG or search-based systems
- Ability to design fault-tolerant systems
- AWS certifications
- Experience building internal developer platforms
- Familiarity with vector databases or retrieval systems
- Experience with LLM observability tooling
- Experience with SRE practices
- Exposure to policy-as-code or security automation tools
- Experience optimizing LLM usage (cost, latency, caching)
Skills
- AWS
- DevOps
- Infrastructure Automation
- Security
- Governance
- Observability
- Agentic Systems
- Toolchain
- LLMs
- MCP
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- CDK
- CloudFormation
- APM
- Datadog
- OpenTelemetry
- IAM
- Networking
- Secrets Management
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- RAG
- Prompt Design
- Vector Databases
- Retrieval Systems
- SRE Practices
- Policy-as-code
- Security Automation
Location
- Remote (Canada)
- Toronto
Work Type
- Contract
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Contract until December 24th, 2026
Salary/Compensations
- $58.00 to $73.00 CAD per hour
Benefits
- Additional shutdowns around holidays
- Comprehensive benefits
- Paid vacation
- Additional benefits designed to support team growth
About the Company
- Audi Red is a partnership between Audi and BIMM Management Group.
- Audi Red is Audi’s flagship technology hub in North America, aspiring to global recognition.
- Audi Red is dedicated to spearheading advancements in Audi’s digital experience ecosystem.
- The mission is to merge excellence in innovation, design, and delivery, leveraging a strong partnership foundation to bridge agency creativity with product excellence, thus enhancing customer experience and service design through cutting-edge technological solutions.
- Audi RED currently does not use AI-enabled tools in our hiring process. All candidates are screened by humans, and approved by humans.
Equal Opportunity
- Audi RED is committed to providing an environment that is inclusive and accessible.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without discrimination.
- Please let us know if accommodation for the recruitment/interview process is required and we will work with you to make sure your needs are met.
