Senior Platform Engineer - Data Infra & Reliability

Peoples-Trust-Company; Toronto; Hybride; CAD 182 000 - 196 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Hybrid work environment

Competitive salaries

Profit sharing

RRSP matching

Benefits from day one

Generous paid time off

Well‑being program

Résumé du poste

Peoples Group in Canada is hiring a senior platform engineer to build and operate the data platform that powers merchants and service providers nationwide. You’ll own platform infrastructure, design CI/CD pipelines, and ensure security, reliability, and cost are design inputs from day one.

You’ll collaborate with data teams, security, and business partners, contribute to architecture decisions, and drive production-grade solutions from concept to production across our Toronto, Vancouver, and

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Platform, DevOps, or SRE roles, including at least one greenfield platform build you can speak to end‑to‑end (architecture decisions, trade‑offs, and what you would do differently)
• Deep, hands‑on expertise with Terraform at scale, including module design, state management, and drift control across many environments (Terragrunt or equivalent patterns)
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including upgrades, networking, RBAC, and incident response
• Proven experience designing CI/CD pipelines as a shared platform for engineering teams (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or equivalent)
• Strong experience with cloud‑native services on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including object storage, serverless compute, managed databases, and IAM
• Experience building observability with meaningful SLOs, actionable alerting, and dashboards (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana or equivalent)
• Experience securing platforms that handle sensitive data and PII, including access control, secrets management, encryption, and working in partnership with security teams
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python or Go
• Experience operating data platforms or tooling (Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, Kafka) an asset
• Experience with data governance, cataloging, or masking policies (Snowflake Horizon, Purview, Unity Catalog) an asset
• Experience with policy-as-code (OPA, Sentinel) an asset
• Experience managing cost on consumption‑based cloud platforms an asset
• Experience in a financial institution or regulated environment (PCI DSS, OSFI) an asset
• AWS and Azure certifications are assets
• You have written a postmortem that changed how your team operates
• You explain technical trade‑offs clearly to both engineers and non‑technical stakeholders, in writing and verbally

Responsabilités

• Build and evolve the data platform
• Design and maintain platform infrastructure as code, with reusable modules and consistent environments
• Build CI/CD golden paths that let data engineers ship safely and independently
• Automate provisioning, access management, and platform changes to eliminate manual toil
• Run it reliably
• Own platform availability, high availability, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
• Define and maintain SLOs, monitoring, and alerting across storage, compute, and orchestration
• Participate in the on‑call rotation and lead blameless postmortems
• Secure it by design
• Implement access control, secrets management, encryption, and data masking in partnership with Security
• Keep the platform audit‑ready through automated, policy‑driven controls
• Make data teams faster
• Treat data engineers as your customers by reducing friction and improving developer experience
• Contribute to solution design and peer code reviews with a platform and reliability lens
• Evaluate new technologies and take the successful ones from proof of concept to production

Description du poste

Peoples Group in Canada is hiring a senior platform engineer to build and operate the data platform that powers merchants and service providers nationwide. You’ll own platform infrastructure, design CI/CD pipelines, and ensure security, reliability, and cost are design inputs from day one.

You’ll collaborate with data teams, security, and business partners, contribute to architecture decisions, and drive production-grade solutions from concept to production across our Toronto, Vancouver, and