Senior AI Platform Engineer & Reliability Lead

Kinvie; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kinvie is seeking a Lead AI Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership across AI platform design, automation, observability, and production readiness. You will guide secure and scalable implementations, mentor engineers, and collaborate with architecture, security, and data teams to enable enterprise AI adoption.

The role emphasizes incident coordination, release readiness, and governance alignment, with a focus on building observable, compliant, and cost-aware platform services across

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, site reliability engineering, DevOps, cloud operations, enterprise IT operations, or production platform support.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical delivery, engineering standards, production readiness, incident response, problem management, service restoration, and operational reporting for enterprise platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering, configuration, and operation of enterprise AI platforms to ensure availability, performance, resilience, and scalability across environments and infrastructure.
• Define platform engineering patterns, standards, reusable components, and guardrails for reliable AI delivery.
• Provide technical leadership for incident resolution, escalation, and post-incident reviews to improve stability.
• Mentor engineers on observability, automation, and reliability practices.
• Embed governance, security, privacy, auditability, and traceability into platform engineering and operations.

Skills

Platform engineering

Site reliability engineering

DevOps

Cloud operations

Operational reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

AKS

Azure Monitor

Logic Apps

Bicep

Terraform

Key Vault

Cosmos DB

Job description

Kinvie is seeking a Lead AI Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership across AI platform design, automation, observability, and production readiness. You will guide secure and scalable implementations, mentor engineers, and collaborate with architecture, security, and data teams to enable enterprise AI adoption.

The role emphasizes incident coordination, release readiness, and governance alignment, with a focus on building observable, compliant, and cost-aware platform services across