Applications Consultant 2 - Platform Reliability Engineer

Capgemini; Ontario; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a skilled Platform Reliability Engineer to optimize cloud platform services. This hands-on role requires expertise in automation, reliability, and cloud technologies (Azure/AWS), involving design and implementation of services that support development teams. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical foundation, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to work in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Healthcare including dental and vision

Financial well-being programs

Paid time off and paid holidays

Family building benefits

Mentoring, coaching, and learning programs

Disaster Relief

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of experience in platform engineering or related roles.
• Practical experience with cloud services (Azure/AWS).
• Strong scripting skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash).

Responsibilities

• Support design of core platform services for application reliability.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates using Terraform.
• Monitor and maintain platform services for scalability and performance.

Skills

Automation

Reliability

Observability

Monitoring

Cost Optimization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Information Technology

Tools

Terraform

Azure

AWS

CloudFormation

Azure Monitor

Job description

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Platform Reliability Engineer to support and optimize our platform services. This role bridges the gap between infrastructure services and the platform capabilities required by development and operations teams. The engineer will contribute to automation, reliability, cost optimization, and service excellence of core platform components hosted in the cloud (Azure/AWS). This is a hands-on technical role with a focus on enabling reliable, secure, and scalable platform foundations for enterprise-scale workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the design and implementation of core platform services that enable development teams to build, deploy, and operate applications reliably.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates and scripts using tools like Terraform or ARM to automate provisioning and configuration.
• Monitor and maintain platform services including compute, storage, networking, and data plane infrastructure for scalability and performance.
• Collaborate with development, cloud engineering, and security teams to ensure platform alignment with architectural standards and security requirements.
• Implement observability practices using tools for monitoring, logging, and alerting to support performance tuning and incident detection.
• Troubleshoot platform-related incidents, perform root cause analysis, and document findings for continuous improvement.
• Participate in deployment activities, ensuring proper controls and validations are in place when promoting workloads to production.
• Support optimization initiatives to reduce costs across services such as compute, storage, Synapse, and platform integration tools.
• Contribute to ongoing platform modernization efforts, including migration from legacy configurations to unified governance models such as Unity Catalog.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 3–6 years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, or related infrastructure roles.
• Practical experience with Azure or AWS cloud services, particularly related to infrastructure and platform-level resource management.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, ARM templates, or CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability solutions (e.g., Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and release processes (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).
• Strong scripting skills (Python, PowerShell, or Bash) to automate tasks and workflows.
• Understanding of access control models, security practices, and compliance in cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with SRE principles and operational excellence metrics (SLOs, SLIs).
• Experience working in agile or iterative environments.

Soft Skills

• Effective communicator with the ability to coordinate across platform, security, cloud, and development teams.
• Strong problem-solving mindset with attention to detail.
• Proactive and collaborative team player, able to work independently and drive issues to resolution.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to Unity Catalog or similar data governance tooling in the context of platform services.
• Experience supporting platform migrations or re-architecture projects.
• Certification in Azure Administrator, Azure DevOps Engineer, or AWS Solutions Architect.
This role is ideal for someone with a strong technical foundation who is ready to take on ownership of platform-level responsibilities, contribute to modernization efforts, and apply SRE practices to maintain high availability and performance of services.

Life at Capgemini

Capgemini supports all aspects of your well-being throughout the changing stages of your life and career. For eligible employees, we offer:

• Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs
• Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation
• Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring
• Mentoring, coaching and learning programs
• Employee Resource Groups
• Disaster Relief

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to
engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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