Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Description: Cloud Platform Engineer

Client: Sports & Entertainment Ventures

Business Unit: Platform Engineering

Location: Greater Toronto Area (GTA), ON (Local / Hybrid preferred)

Contract: Initial 6-month engagement with potential extension

Rate Target: $50-$70/hr (Dependent on experience)

Overview

Our client is expanding its digital innovation ecosystem through its Ventures , a high-impact engineering group focused on building scalable digital platforms that power customer and business experiences across all franchises.

We are seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure-focused Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will work closely with senior platform engineers and cross-functional product development teams to design, automate, and operate cloud-native infrastructure, developer tooling, and declarative deployment pipelines across multiple upcoming digital initiatives over the next 6-12 months.

What You Will Do

• Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure: Design, provision, and maintain secure, highly available AWS cloud infrastructure using modular Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).
• Kubernetes & Container Orchestration: Manage and scale production Amazon EKS clusters, containerized application workflows, and ingress configurations.
• Declarative GitOps & CI/CD: Implement and manage declarative deployment workflows and cluster state reconciliation using Helm , Flux , or ArgoCD alongside GitHub Actions .
• Platform Tooling & Automation: Develop custom platform automation, cloud API integrations, and developer enablement tooling using Python or Go .
• SRE & Observability: Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to monitor cluster health, latency, and availability using tools like Prometheus , Grafana , and Datadog .
• Technical Collaboration & Communication: Act as an embedded platform partner, translating technical requirements, presenting platform patterns clearly to dev teams, and facilitating smooth knowledge transfers.

Required Qualifications

• Location & Work Rights: Currently located in Canada (GTA / Toronto local strongly preferred) with valid, immediate Canadian work authorization.
• AWS Infrastructure Depth: 5+ years of operational cloud experience with deep, hands‑on knowledge of AWS core services (VPCs, EKS, IAM, S3, RDS, EC2, CloudWatch).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced expertise with Terraform (building reusable modules, managing remote state, and handling complex drift/troubleshooting) and Ansible.
• Container Orchestration & GitOps: Hands‑on experience operating production Kubernetes (EKS) clusters, packaging applications with Helm , and utilizing GitOps reconciliation patterns (Flux or ArgoCD ).
• Programming / Scripting: Strong scripting and tooling development experience in Python or Go .
• Communication & Stakeholder Management: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a proven ability to explain complex platform concepts clearly to non‑infrastructure teams.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) or developer portals (Backstage, Port.io).
• Familiarity with identity/IAM integrations (Azure AD / Entra ID, Microsoft Graph API).
• Hands‑on usage of AI‑assisted engineering workflow tools (GitHub Copilot, coding assistants, automated IaC tools).