About GFL Environmental

GFL Environmental Inc. is the fourth largest diversified environmental services company in North America. Our vision is to be "Green For Life ", providing accessible, cost-effective, and sustainable solutions. At the heart of GFL are our people—"Team Green "—and we are looking for a passionate technologist to help build the foundation of our modern IT operations.

Opportunity

Our platform engineering team is focused on empowering GFL's developers to quickly release secure, observable, and reliable applications by building a up-to-date, lean platform. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll work directly with the Platform Lead to design and deliver modular infrastructure and CI/CD frameworks used across the company. This is a high‑impact role where you’ll shape how infrastructure and delivery happen at scale.

Responsibilities

- Design and maintain reusable, secure, and DRY infrastructure modules using Terraform.
- Engineer and evolve CI/CD pipeline frameworks in GitHub Actions that integrate automated testing, security scanning (with Snyk), and deployment workflows.
- Define and implement standards and tooling that make it easy for developers to adopt infrastructure and pipelines without friction.
- Design resilient, highly available, and cost-effective infrastructure patterns, promoting best practices for cloud utilization.
- Ensure all infrastructure and pipelines emit the right telemetry for downstream monitoring by our SRE/Observability team.
- Partner closely with application developers, SRE, security, and operations engineers to embed best practices into the platform from the start.
- Create high-quality documentation for all frameworks and modules to enable developer self‑service.
- Mentor a junior engineer and collaborate with the Platform Lead on architectural decisions and long‑term platform strategy.

Qualifications





- 5+ years of experience in platform, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure engineering roles.
- Deep experience designing modular, reusable Terraform code with a strong grasp of IaC patterns.
- Strong AWS knowledge across key services (IAM, VPC, ECS, EKS, EC2, KMS, etc.).
- Proven ability to build and maintain secure, automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
- Pragmatic mindset focused on elegant but deliverable solutions.
- Strong belief in automation, DRY code, and version‑controlled infrastructure.
- Comfort collaborating across diverse teams and working directly with developers.
- Understanding of governance, compliance, and auditable infrastructure.
- Bonus: Experience building internal developer platforms or self‑service developer infrastructure.
- Bonus: Familiarity with container orchestration (ECS, EKS, Kubernetes).
- Bonus: Exposure to other IaC tools (CloudFormation, Pulumi, CDK) or wrappers like Terragrunt.

Benefits

- Define the foundation: Work side‑by‑side with the Platform Lead to build solutions that impact GFL's engineering organization.
- High‑trust, low‑politics environment where pragmatism beats dogma and good ideas are valued.
- Ownership of critical platform components with adoption at scale.
- Opportunity to build a secure, scalable platform valued by its developer users.

Equal Opportunity Employer

GFL is committed to equal opportunity for all, without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.

Valid work authorization in the country where the job is located is required. GFL does not provide visa sponsorship for this position. Successful candidates must provide valid documentation confirming their eligibility to work prior to their start date.

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📌 Senior Platform Engineer (Vaughan)
🏢 GFL Environmental
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