Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform
Leads and develops a team responsible for AWS cloud foundations and Kubernetes infrastructure, while setting priorities for reliability, security, scalability, and cost management. Requires substantial cloud-platform experience, production Kubernetes expertise, AWS knowledge, and engineering people-management experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers; manage performance and create the conditions for them to do their best work.
- Own AWS cloud foundations across compute, networking, identity, and core services, serving as the team’s technical owner and primary escalation point.
- Drive cloud cost observability and attribution through tagging, reporting, and accountability practices.
- Recommend and execute commitment-based AWS cost strategies, including evaluating and managing Savings Plans and Reserved Instances based on usage forecasts.
- Set and communicate technical priorities, balancing reliability, security, cost, and delivery against department and company objectives.
- Ensure the platform remains scalable, secure, and resilient for internal engineering teams and customers.
- Partner with Security and Platform leadership on shared standards, infrastructure roadmaps, incident response, and cross-team priorities.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience working within a cloud platform or infrastructure-focused organization.
- Proven experience managing Kubernetes at scale in production, including cluster lifecycle and upgrades.
- Strong hands-on familiarity with AWS, including compute, networking, IAM/identity, and core services.
- Experience leading, coaching, or managing engineers through formal people management or significant technical-lead responsibility.
- A record of growing and retaining talent.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and GitOps practices such as Terraform and Helm.
- Ability to manage change across shared infrastructure.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to align technical priorities with organizational objectives and collaborate across security, engineering, and leadership.
Compensation
- National pay range: $129,000–$175,000 CAD.
- Compensation is commensurate with experience and qualifications.
- Certain roles may be eligible for stock options, bonuses, and merit increases.
Skills
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitOps, IAM, Cloud Networking, Cloud Cost Management, Incident Response, Infrastructure As Code
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