Platform Engineering Lead

Jobgether; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Toronto office option

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Three weeks vacation

Unlimited sick days

Parental leave top-up

Home office stipend

Career development

Employee stock options

Open science collaboration

Job summary

Jobgether, partnering with a Canada-based biomedical data initiative, seeks a Platform Engineering Lead to shape strategy and steer a cloud platform team. You will guide architecture, drive Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD decisions, and collaborate with Product, Security, and Leadership to deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure.

You'll coach engineers, manage budgets across GCP/AWS, and push for automation, cost visibility, and strong operational practices that improve developer productivity

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering with at least 3 years leading engineers.
• Experience setting direction for platform/infrastructure teams and mentoring senior engineers.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, CI on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Strong ability to review infrastructure, assess proposals, and contribute to implementation.
• Direct accountability for cloud infra budget with demonstrated cost reductions.
• Experience improving developer productivity via metrics and tooling.
• Automation of repetitive tasks and improving small teams.
• Familiarity with SOC 2 or similar, handling health/genomic data with strict access controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the team: manage engineers, one-on-ones, career plans, performance reviews, and hiring.
• Establish team priorities and backlog management.
• Own the platform roadmap with Product on infrastructure, reliability, and security.
• Define platform architecture and oversee design reviews and deployments.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, environments, deployment safety, and automated rollbacks.
• Oversee AI-assisted tooling and cost-related governance across environments.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Budget management

Team leadership

Security & compliance

Communication skills

Concourse CI

Java

Spring Boot

GA4GH standards

Tools

Concourse CI

Java

Spring Boot

GA4GH standards

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Platform Engineering Lead based in Canada.

The Platform Engineering Lead will shape the strategy, technical direction, and day-to-day execution of a platform engineering function supporting complex, cloud-based products. This player-coach role combines people leadership with hands‑on technical contribution across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, automation, CI/CD, security, and reliability. You will guide a team of engineers, establish clear priorities, and build a scalable platform roadmap in partnership with Product. You will also oversee infrastructure costs, improve developer productivity, and strengthen operational practices through measurable outcomes. Working across engineering, product, security, and leadership teams, you will help create a reliable and efficient environment for delivering software. Your work will support biomedical data sharing and research initiatives with meaningful applications in precision medicine.

Accountabilities

• Lead and develop the team: Manage engineers through regular one‑to‑ones, career development plans, performance reviews, and hiring. Coach senior engineers and foster accountability, collaboration, and shared ownership.
• Establish team priorities: Maintain a transparent, ranked backlog, assess requests from Product, Program Management, and customers, and determine what should be prioritized, deferred, or stopped.
• Own the platform roadmap: Partner with Product to plan infrastructure, reliability, security, tooling, and customer‑environment improvements alongside product development.
• Guide technical direction: Define platform architecture and technical decision‑making practices, lead design and code reviews, contribute to implementation, and evaluate major technical changes and deployments.
• Improve engineering productivity: Define and monitor delivery metrics, including deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, recovery time, and build and test duration. Improve CI/CD pipelines, preview environments, deployment safety, and automated rollback.
• Leverage AI and automation: Introduce AI‑assisted development tools and deterministic automation, establish appropriate access guardrails, and track productivity gains. Oversee related tooling, licensing, access, and budget.
• Manage cloud costs: Own infrastructure budgets across GCP, AWS, and related tools; forecast spending, monitor variances, establish cost targets, and improve cost visibility across customers, environments, and products.
• Ensure reliability and security: Define service level objectives, oversee on‑call practices, incident response, alerts, and blameless reviews. Partner with privacy and security leadership on SOC 2 controls, including access management, secrets, CI, and audit evidence.
• Communicate progress and risks: Report on roadmap delivery, infrastructure spending, operational risks, and investment needs to senior leadership.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability engineering, or platform engineering, including at least 3 years managing engineers.
• Demonstrated experience setting technical direction and priorities for a platform or infrastructure team and managing senior engineers.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Strong hands‑on technical skills, including the ability to review infrastructure plans, assess architecture proposals, review code, and contribute to implementation.
• Direct accountability for a cloud infrastructure budget, with demonstrable examples of cost reductions and measurable results.
• Experience improving developer productivity through delivery metrics, process improvements, and engineering tooling.
• A track record of automating repetitive operational tasks and increasing the effectiveness of small engineering teams.
• Familiarity with SOC 2 or comparable security and compliance frameworks, and the ability to work with sensitive health or genomic data subject to strict access controls and auditing.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions, trade‑offs, costs, and risks to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable collaborating across teams and global time zones.
• Nice to have: Concourse CI experience; experience managing multiple environments through a shared platform; AI‑assisted development and automation expertise; experience with cost allocation or showback models or internal developer platforms; familiarity with Java and Spring Boot, GA4GH standards, or WDL workflow engines.

Benefits:

• Annual salary range of CAD‑equivalent? The posting specifies $165,000–$185,000; the currency is not explicitly stated in the supplied text.
• Remote‑friendly work arrangement, with flexible hours and the option to work from the Toronto office.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents.
• Three weeks of vacation.
• Unlimited sick days.
• Maternity and parental leave top‑up programs.
• One‑time remote office setup stipend.
• Career development and learning support.
• Opportunity to participate in an employee stock option program.
• Opportunity to contribute to open science and global biomedical data‑sharing initiatives.

How Jobgether works:

We use an AI‑powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role’s core requirements. Our system identifies the top‑fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!