Senior Platform Engineer—Azure, CI/CD, AI Tooling

Société Financière Manuvie; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 113,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

Société Financière Manuvie seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to build and operate the shared platform used by application teams to deploy and run services on Azure Kubernetes Service. You will own platform capabilities from design through implementation and measurement, establishing standards and reusable solutions that support engineering teams across the organization.

This role emphasizes multi-region resilience, policy automation, AI-assisted tooling, and self-service guardrails, with a strong

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including ownership of at least one end-to-end platform capability used by other teams.
• 8+ years of experience working with Azure in an enterprise environment, including Entra ID, workload identity, networking, governance, Azure Policy, Key Vault, and managed data and messaging services.
• 5+ years of experience operating production Kubernetes environments across multiple clusters and regions, including experience with a service mesh such as Istio or an equivalent technology.
• 5+ years of experience supporting progressive delivery through canary or blue/green deployment approaches.
• 4+ years of experience with Terraform and CI/CD, including developing reusable modules used by other teams.
• 4+ years of experience developing GitHub Actions reusable workflows that incorporate approval gating and OpenID Connect federation with Azure.
• 2+ years of production experience with GitOps technologies such as Flux CD or Argo CD.
• Production experience working with Python, Bash, YAML, and containers.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with observability and policy as code, including an application performance monitoring platform such as New Relic or Datadog, SLI and SLO development, and admission-control policies enforced within Kubernetes clusters.
• Current, hands-on experience building solutions using large language models, including agent frameworks, tool calling, or the Model Context Protocol for infrastructure or operational challenges.
• Experience delivering technology solutions in a regulated enterprise environment with formal change-management, control, and audit requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate continuous and progressive delivery capabilities for services running on Azure Kubernetes Service.
• This includes GitHub Actions pipelines, Terraform modules, GitOps reconciliation, and canary and blue/green deployments through a service mesh, supported by versioning, phased rollouts, and tested rollback procedures.
• Own and continuously improve shared CI/CD workflows and reusable Terraform module catalogues that application teams can confidently adopt.
• Transform recurring platform requests into self-service capabilities and automated guardrails, while creating reference implementations, standards, and documentation for other engineers.
• Design and test highly available, resilient solutions across multiple Azure regions.
• Automate regional failover across infrastructure, traffic-routing components, and dependent Azure services, and conduct controlled chaos experiments to validate recovery capabilities.
• Integrate observability, service-level indicators, service-level objectives, release gating, and rollback capabilities into the delivery process so that release outcomes are evaluated using service behavior.
• Establish secure and compliant delivery paths by default through Azure Policy, in-cluster admission controls, and workload identity.
• Design and deliver AI-assisted platform tooling using agent-based solutions and the Model Context Protocol for onboarding, configuration validation, access auditing, drift detection, and incident triage.
• Incorporate appropriate approval gates, checkpointing, and auditability into AI-assisted platform solutions.

Skills

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

GitOps

Python

YAML

Service mesh

OpenID Connect

Tools

Flux CD

Argo CD

New Relic

Datadog

Job description

Société Financière Manuvie seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to build and operate the shared platform used by application teams to deploy and run services on Azure Kubernetes Service. You will own platform capabilities from design through implementation and measurement, establishing standards and reusable solutions that support engineering teams across the organization.

This role emphasizes multi-region resilience, policy automation, AI-assisted tooling, and self-service guardrails, with a strong