Staff Cloud Platform Engineer – Remote Canada

Lever, Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 141,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work within Canada

Bonus potential

Mentoring and career development

Modern tech stack

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer - Cloud Platform to design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure in Canada. You will drive modernization across cloud, networking, and telecom environments, and mentor engineers while delivering reliable carrier-grade services.

You will work with GKE, NATS, HAProxy, Terraform, and CI/CD tooling, influencing platform direction and engineering standards in a distributed team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years hands-on with public cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong Kubernetes and containerized platforms expertise.
• Deep networking knowledge: TCP/IP, routing, NAT, DNS, load balancing.
• Experience configuring HAProxy in highly available envs.
• Hands-on with NATS and event-driven architectures.
• IaC with Terraform.
• Python, Go, or Bash scripting.
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps platforms.
• Monitoring/observability and incident management knowledge.
• Strong problem-solving and cross-team communication.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and operate scalable cloud platform infrastructure with modernization.
• Define platform reliability, observability, DR, capacity, and ops excellence.
• Troubleshoot end-to-end issues across cloud, network, and telecom environments.
• Design and operate NATS and HAProxy traffic management.
• Build scalable service communication frameworks and resiliency patterns.
• Manage Google Cloud infrastructure: GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Composer/Airflow.
• Implement IAC using Terraform and Terragrunt for provisioning and compliance.
• Develop reusable platform services and self-service capabilities.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions.
• Establish monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch.
• Lead RCAs and incident response; drive proactive prevention.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, SRE, NOC, CS teams on platform initiatives.
• Develop technical roadmaps, governance, and mentoring across cloud and telecom domains.

Skills

Cloud platform architecture

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Python/Go scripting

Networking fundamentals

Terraform/Terragrunt

Observability/monitoring

GKE/Google Cloud

HAProxy/NATS

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Telecommunications

Tools

GKE

Compute Engine

Cloud Storage

BigQuery

Pub/Sub

Cloud SQL

Composer/Airflow

Terraform

Terragrunt

Jenkins/GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Job description

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer - Cloud Platform to design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure in Canada. You will drive modernization across cloud, networking, and telecom environments, and mentor engineers while delivering reliable carrier-grade services.

You will work with GKE, NATS, HAProxy, Terraform, and CI/CD tooling, influencing platform direction and engineering standards in a distributed team.