Platform & Infra Engineering Leader (SRE, Data & AI)

Motive; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Motive seeks a seasoned engineering leader to guide Core Infrastructure and Operations Engineering. You will manage a multi-functional team spanning SRE, Operations, Data & AI Platform, and Database Engineering, owning the cloud platform and treating infrastructure as a product to ensure enterprise-grade reliability for mission-critical systems.

You will collaborate with executives, define multi-quarter platform initiatives, and balance long-term architecture with near-term business needs.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software/infrastructure engineering, including 5+ years leading Infra/SRE/ops orgs and managing managers with a strong sense for systems architecture.
• Experience in B2B SaaS or high‑reliability domains (payments, logistics, safety) is a plus.
• High AI fluency – evaluate, integrate, and govern LLM/AI platforms for engineering and ops.

Responsibilities

• Lead Core Infrastructure and Operations Engineering and mentor multi-functional teams across SRE, Operations, Data & AI Platform, and Database Engineering.
• Own the cloud platform and run infrastructure as a product to drive enterprise-grade reliability for mission-critical systems.
• Define and drive multi-quarter platform initiatives to improve system reliability and product leverage.

Skills

SRE leadership

Infra/ops management

Platform as a product

Cloud governance

AWS at scale

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Data platforms

Job description

Motive seeks a seasoned engineering leader to guide Core Infrastructure and Operations Engineering. You will manage a multi-functional team spanning SRE, Operations, Data & AI Platform, and Database Engineering, owning the cloud platform and treating infrastructure as a product to ensure enterprise-grade reliability for mission-critical systems.

You will collaborate with executives, define multi-quarter platform initiatives, and balance long-term architecture with near-term business needs.