Senior AI Platform Engineer & Reliability Leader

Eqbank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Eqbank seeks a Lead AI Platform Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership across enterprise AI platform design, implementation, automation, observability, and production readiness. The role ensures secure, observable, resilient, and scalable platform delivery across environments and teams.

The incumbent collaborates with architecture, security, cloud, infrastructure, and data teams to enable safe, scalable AI adoption, mentor engineers, and drive governance and incident response

Qualifications

• University degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or production platform support.
• Experience leading technical delivery, production readiness, incident response, and operational reporting for enterprise platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering, configuration, and operation of enterprise AI platforms to ensure availability, performance, resilience, and scalability.
• Define and implement platform engineering patterns, standards, reusable components, and operational guardrails that support secure and reliable AI solution delivery.
• Provide technical leadership for platform triage, incident resolution, escalation coordination, and post-incident reviews to strengthen service stability and resilience.
• Track and report on service reliability indicators, incident trends, engineering risks, and operational performance improvements.
• Lead technical enablement of approved AI use cases into non-production and production environments with readiness and supportability.

Skills

Technical leadership

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Analytical thinking

Education

University degree in CS/Engineering/IT

7+ years platform engineering/SRE/DevOps/ cloud operations

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Bicep

AKS

Azure Monitor

Grafana

Logic Apps

Key Vault

Job description

Eqbank seeks a Lead AI Platform Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership across enterprise AI platform design, implementation, automation, observability, and production readiness. The role ensures secure, observable, resilient, and scalable platform delivery across environments and teams.

The incumbent collaborates with architecture, security, cloud, infrastructure, and data teams to enable safe, scalable AI adoption, mentor engineers, and drive governance and incident response