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: Solid 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).

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📌 Cloud Platform Engineer (Ontario)
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📍 Ontario