About the Role
This role is ideal for a hands-on platform professional who thrives in cloud-native environments and enjoys building scalable, reliable, and automated infrastructure that enables engineering teams to move faster. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms while partnering closely with software engineering teams to improve developer productivity, operational excellence, and platform reliability. You will play a key role in advancing automation initiatives, Infrastructure-as-Code practices, CI/CD capabilities, and observability across a large-scale cloud ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and support scalable cloud infrastructure within AWS environments.
- Build, manage, and optimize Kubernetes platforms (EKS preferred) supporting mission-critical applications.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform.
- Enhance and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery and platform operations.
- Implement automation and self-service capabilities that improve efficiency and developer experience.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize platform performance, availability, and reliability.
- Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to improve operational excellence and incident management.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to build and support cloud-native applications.
- Participate in system design discussions and contribute to platform architecture decisions.
- Champion best practices in cloud operations, security, scalability, and observability.
Requirements
- Expert-level experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
- Strong hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Advanced experience with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code practices
- Strong understanding of Linux administration, networking concepts, and SRE fundamentals
- Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines in modern cloud environments
Skills
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Terraform
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- Linux administration
- Networking concepts
- SRE fundamentals
- CI/CD pipelines
- Amazon Bedrock
- Amazon SageMaker
- Go
- Python
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- CloudWatch
- Large-scale distributed systems
- Cloud-native platforms
Location
- Toronto, ON
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Contract
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $60.00 - $62.00/hr
About the Company
- A leading global eCommerce company.
- We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.
Equal Opportunity
- The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
