Senior Infrastructure Engineer - AWS

Remote - Canada

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Permanent / Full Time

Our client, a consumer technology company, is modernizing its product and engineering organization, investing in next-generation recommendation and GenAI capabilities, and using AI-first development practices across the software lifecycle.

They're looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own the AWS infrastructure that keeps the platform reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient. You'll have significant autonomy across cloud infrastructure, reliability, deployment, observability, developer productivity, data infrastructure, security, and infrastructure cost management, working alongside backend engineers who also contribute to deployment, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, and production operations.

This is a permanent, full-time role based in Canada. It's fully remote, and we encourage candidates across Canada to apply.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the client's AWS infrastructure, including reliability, scalability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Build and improve infrastructure as code, Kubernetes environments, deployment automation, CI/CD, and developer workflows that help engineers ship safely and efficiently.
• Strengthen observability, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, failure recovery, and production readiness while reducing operational toil.
• Operate and modernize shared data infrastructure, including production databases, caches, search systems, backups, replication, migrations, and performance tuning.
• Own infrastructure cost visibility and optimization across cloud and engineering-tooling spend, and partner with business stakeholders on budgeting, forecasting, and infrastructure investment planning.
• Own infrastructure security priorities in partnership with a senior external security advisor, translating risks and recommendations into actionable work across cloud infrastructure and engineering systems.
• Partner with backend engineers on system architecture, reliability, and operational simplicity, and contribute to backend services when that's the best way to solve a technical or product problem.
• Use AI-assisted development across infrastructure design, implementation, automation, testing, debugging, incident investigation, review, and documentation, while maintaining human accountability for security, reliability, correctness, and production outcomes.

Mandatory Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience operating production AWS infrastructure, including Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, deployment, and automation.
• 8-12+ years in an infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering role.
• Strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, distributed systems, cloud security, reliability, and production operations.
• Experience with CI/CD, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and designing systems for failure and recovery.
• Experience operating production databases and shared data infrastructure, including performance, availability, backup, and migration concerns.
• Strong programming skills in Python (preferred), Go, or another language, with a preference for durable automation over manual operations and an interest in contributing to backend systems.
• Experience managing cloud and infrastructure costs.
• Experience with cloud security, IAM, vulnerability management, security reviews, and working closely with security specialists.
• Ability to independently own an infrastructure domain, prioritize investments, communicate clearly with engineering and business stakeholders, and collaborate effectively with backend engineers and specialized external experts.

Nice-to-Have

• Backend application or API development experience.

Compensation

CA$150,000 to CA$185,000 annually, 10% profit-sharing bonus, with final compensation determined by your qualifications, expertise, experience, and the role's scope.

Of Note

• Completed background checks will be required before the start date if you are selected as a winning candidate.

While we strive to respond to all applicants, please understand that due to the high volume of applications we receive, providing individual feedback or responses to every candidate may not be feasible. Rest assured, we will carefully review and consider your application. We appreciate your understanding and interest in joining our team.