Cloud Platform Engineer

MTY Food Group; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation 3 weeks

Flexible sick leave

Certification reimbursement

Half-day Fridays

Health and dental

Wellness account

Profit-sharing

Recognition awards

Social events

Casual dress

Free parking

Job summary

MTY Food Group is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to manage and optimize AWS and GCP environments. The role emphasizes automation, security, cost optimization, and reliable cloud services across hybrid office settings. 5+ years of hands-on cloud experience and strong AWS/GCP expertise are required.

You will work with Security and DevOps teams, support multi-cloud governance, and contribute to modernizing legacy workloads while ensuring business continuity and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years cloud infrastructure experience in a technical role.
• Hands-on experience with production AWS and GCP for enterprise workloads.
• IaC with Terraform and related tooling; cloud security and governance.

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize AWS and GCP infrastructure, including provisioning and monitoring.
• Manage IAM, service accounts, and least-privilege access across clouds.
• Develop automation with Terraform/CloudFormation/Bicep and related tooling.
• Create automation scripts using PowerShell and cloud CLIs.
• Monitor health, logging, and incident response for critical services.
• Oversee backup, DR, resiliency, and business continuity for cloud resources.
• Collaborate with Security to remediate findings and enforce governance.
• Optimize costs via governance and AWS/GCP cost tools.
• Support dev/ops teams with cloud platform requirements.
• Assist migration and modernization of workloads across clouds.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Scripting (PowerShell)

CI/CD

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Location: Ville Saint-Laurent, QC, or Richmond Hill ON

Job Type: Full-time

Work Environment: Hybrid (3 days per week in the office)

Reporting Structure: Reports to Sr Director, IT Infrastructure

Position Summary

We are seeking a skilled and proactive Cloud Platform Engineer to manage, monitor, and optimize our Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments. This role will be responsible for day-to-day cloud operations, infrastructure engineering, automation, security, governance, cost optimization, and availability of business-critical cloud services and resources. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience, strong AWS and GCP expertise, and experience or working knowledge of Azure, with a focus on continuous improvement and operational excellence.

MTY offers its employees dynamic, unique and valuable professional experience.

• 3 weeks of vacation
• 5 days of flexible sick leaves
• $2000 reimbursement for professional certifications and continuing education requirements
• Half-day Fridays year-round
• Company health and dental plans, with an additional $300 personal wellness expense account
• Employee assistance program with access to mental health, legal, and financial counseling services
• Employee profit-sharing plan with employer contribution
• Monthly company-wide recognition awards
• Company social events, including webinars, town halls, and team activities
• Casual dress code
• Free parking at the office

Key Responsibilities

• Day-to-day administration and support of AWS and GCP infrastructure, including provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Configure and manage identity and access controls, IAM, service accounts, and least-privilege access across cloud environments.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or equivalent technologies.
• Create and maintain automation scripts and workflows using PowerShell, AWS CLI, Google Cloud CLI, Azure CLI, and related tooling.
• Monitor cloud health, performance, logging, and alerting, and support incident response for business-critical cloud services.
• Manage cloud backup, disaster recovery, resiliency, and business continuity solutions.
• Partner with Security teams to remediate cloud security findings and support security and governance controls.
• Optimize cloud costs through resource governance, utilization analysis, right-sizing, and AWS cost management tools.
• Support application, Infrastructure, Data & AI, and DevOps teams with cloud infrastructure and platform requirements.
• Support migration and modernization of legacy workloads and new AWS and GCP projects and initiatives.
• Maintain cloud architecture, operational documentation, standards, and best practices across the multi-cloud environment.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud engineering, systems engineering, or a comparable technical role
• Strong hands-on experience operating production cloud environments and supporting enterprise infrastructure and business-critical workloads
• Strong experience with AWS, including:
• AWS Organizations and multi-account environments
• IAM and IAM Identity Center
• Amazon EC2, EBS, S3, and RDS/Aurora
• VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, NAT, and VPC endpoints
• Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, and CloudFront
• AWS Backup, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, and Systems Manager
• Cost Explorer, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and general AWS cost optimization
• Experience or working knowledge of GCP, including:
• GCP Organizations, Folders, and Projects
• Google Cloud IAM and service accounts
• VPC networking and Cloud DNS
• Cloud Storage and Compute Engine
• Cloud Logging and Monitoring
• Organization Policies and Workload Identity Federation
• GCP security and governance concepts
• Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles
• Experience with Git, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and GitHub Actions
• Experience with scripting and infrastructure automation using PowerShell and cloud command-line tools
• Solid understanding of cloud security principles, IAM, governance, backup, disaster recovery, and resiliency
• Strong troubleshooting and incident-resolution skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, Google Associate Cloud Engineer, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• Certifications or hands‑on experience across more than one cloud platform
• Experience working within multi‑cloud or hybrid‑cloud environments
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, ECR, Lambda, FSx, Transit Gateway, and Control Tower
• Experience supporting GCP-based Data, AI, or application workloads
• Experience with cloud cost management and FinOps practices
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team
• Proactive mindset and strong attention to detail

Working Conditions

• Hybrid work - 3 days per week in one of our offices
• Remaining days may be worked remotely in accordance with MTY policies.
• May require occasional on-call support for critical cloud incidents.
• Regular collaboration with Infrastructure, Security, Data & AI, application, DevOps, and business teams.

Please note that any offer of employment will be conditional upon a background check, including a criminal record check.

*The majority of our clients and a large proportion of our employees are outside Quebec*.