Location: Toronto, ON

Senior Platform Engineer - IAC, Terraform, Kubernetes
Location: Toronto, ON

Onsite Flexibility
Hybrid

Contract Details

Position Type: Contract

Contract Duration: 6 months

Pay Rate: C$90.00–C$100.00 / Hour (CAD)

Shift / Schedule: 37.5 Hours/week, 9–5 Monday to Friday

Job Summary
The Senior Platform Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, and supporting reusable cloud platform capabilities in Azure . This role focuses on enabling cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, and emerging AI workloads through infrastructure automation, platform standardization, and engineering best practices.

The successful candidate will have solid experience with Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Python scripting, observability, and secure platform design. They will partner closely with engineering, architecture, security, and delivery teams to create scalable, resilient, and automated platform solutions while continuously improving deployment and operational processes.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and support reusable cloud platform capabilities in Azure

Enable cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, and emerging AI workloads through infrastructure automation and platform standardization

Support the design, build, and enhancement of Azure-based platform services, focusing on infrastructure automation, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD modernization, observability improvements, and cloud-native application enablement, including support for emerging AI and GenAI use cases





Partner closely with engineering, architecture, security, and delivery teams to create scalable, resilient, and automated platform solutions

Continuously improve deployment and operational processes

Work on a daily basis with Platform Engineers, Software Engineers, Cloud Architects, Security Teams, DevOps Teams, Delivery Partners, and ML Engineers

Required Skills

8 years total experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering

Designing and supporting Azure cloud environments

Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform

Kubernetes and Docker container platforms

CI/CD pipeline development and optimization

Automation scripting using Python

Cloud platform operations, scalability, resiliency, and security

Monitoring, logging, and observability solutions

Authentication, authorization, and access control implementation

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Excellent collaboration across engineering, architecture, and security teams

Problem-solving and troubleshooting mindset

Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment

Continuous improvement mentality

Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing skills





Preferred Skills

Experience supporting GenAI, AI/ML, or RAG platforms

Azure API Management (APIM)

Bash scripting

Databricks

Experience building reusable enterprise platform services

Financial services or banking experience

About the Client
This client is a large, full-service multinational financial institution offering a comprehensive range of banking, wealth management, and capital markets products and services to individuals, businesses, and institutional clients. The organization serves millions of clients across its home market and operates internationally, with significant commercial and investment banking presence in the United States and other global markets — making it one of the more prominent institutions in North American financial services. The institution employs a wide range of professionals including platform engineers, DevOps engineers, cloud architects, business analysts, and enterprise technology specialists who collaborate across agile, cross-functional teams in a structured, purpose-driven environment.

About GTT
GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-12376 Industry: Engineering

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📌 Senior Platform Engineer - IAC, Terraform, Kubernetes (Ontario)
🏢 Global Technical Talent, an Inc. 5000
📍 Ontario