Sr Platform Engineer

Air-tek; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A Canadian-based software company in Toronto is seeking a Platform Development Engineer to design and improve CI/CD capabilities and leverage cloud technologies (AWS, Azure). Ideal candidates will have strong programming skills, a Bachelor's degree, and experience with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). This role involves collaboration with engineering teams and optimizing platform components for efficiency.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Platform Development Engineer or similar role, with a strong background in building scalable platforms.
• Advanced hands-on experience with CI/CD pipeline and automation tools.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically about platform reliability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Help design, build, and improve the CI/CD capabilities used by our engineering teams.
• Work with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure) to deploy and manage services.
• Develop automation and tools to streamline software builds and operations.

Skills

C# .NET

Node.JS

PowerShell

Bash

CI/CD pipeline

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Infrastructure as Code

Kafka

RabbitMQ

SQS

RDS

MongoDB

MySQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related fields

Tools

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Argo CD

Pulumi

Terraform

Job description

About Us

Air-tek is a Canadian-based software company with a powerful suite of unique products that have already achieved a significant share of a huge global market. The product market fit is excellent, and customers are lining up to buy. Although our global customers know us, we intentionally operate in stealth mode during this growth phase.

Our diverse team shares a collective passion for solving complex problems with a drive to innovate and a desire to create the passenger-centric travel industry. Based in Toronto, our inclusive culture is built on trust, collaboration, delivering a great product, and continuous personal development. We love what we do, and we support the team around us.

About the Team

The Platform Engineering team is a highly collaborative group of software engineers committed to building, scaling, and maintaining the foundations on which other teams can build Air-Tek's software solutions on. We focus on developing secure, scalable and efficient infrastructure, leveraging modern development practices. Our impact reaches broadly across the company, working closely with operations, support, product, and other engineering teams to achieve Air-Tek's company objectives.

As a Platform Development Engineer, you will play a key role in the design, development, and operation of our core platform services, helping us deliver powerful and reliable infrastructure solutions to support the growing needs of our products.

Key Responsibilities

• Help design, build, and improve the CI/CD capabilities used by our engineering teams to ensure the delivery of Air-Tek's software
• Work with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure) to deploy and manage Air-Tek's services
• Develop automation and tools to streamline software builds, client integrations, deployments, and operations
• Fine tune and optimize platform components to improve their efficiency and cost effectiveness
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to troubleshoot errors and streamline the process of getting from code to client
• Drive adoption of best practices for DevOps, continuous integration, quality, scalability, and maintainability across the entire engineering org

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related fields (or equivalent work experience)
• Proven experience as a Platform Development Engineer or similar role, with a strong background in building scalable platforms
• Proficiency in programming and scripting languages such as C# .NET, Node.JS, PowerShell, and Bash
• Advanced hands-on experience with CI/CD pipeline and automation tools, such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and Argo CD
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
• Advanced experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and Disaster recovery
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically about platform reliability and performance
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi and Terraform)
• Experience with Observability
• Strong understanding of deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling updates)
• Expertise in automating infrastructure provisioning and application delivery pipelines
• Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS) and databases (RDS, MongoDB, MySQL)