Senior AI Platform Engineering Lead

EQ Bank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

EQ Bank is seeking a Lead AI Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership across the design, implementation, and operation of enterprise AI platforms. You will drive reliability, observability, and security, guiding cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable, secure AI capabilities.

You will mentor engineers, establish engineering patterns, and coordinate complex delivery across architecture, security, and cloud teams to enable safe AI adoption at scale.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering, configuration, and operation of enterprise AI platforms for availability, performance, resilience, and scale.
• Define and implement platform engineering patterns, standards, reusable components, and guardrails for secure AI delivery.
• Provide technical leadership for incident triage, escalation, and post-incident reviews to improve reliability.
• Report service reliability indicators, incident trends, and operational improvements.
• Lead enablement of approved AI use cases into production environments with readiness and transition planning.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, cloud, and infra teams to translate requirements into secure, scalable platform implementations.
• Guide platform lifecycle management including release coordination and maintenance planning.
• Ensure platform changes meet engineering, security, and control readiness prior to release.
• Mentor engineers on observability, automation, troubleshooting, and reliability practices.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Observability

Automation

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Azure

AKS

Security patterns

Education

University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Bicep

Logic Apps

Key Vault

App Service

Job description

EQ Bank is seeking a Lead AI Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership across the design, implementation, and operation of enterprise AI platforms. You will drive reliability, observability, and security, guiding cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable, secure AI capabilities.

You will mentor engineers, establish engineering patterns, and coordinate complex delivery across architecture, security, and cloud teams to enable safe AI adoption at scale.