We are looking for a seasoned engineering leader who will lead the Core Infrastructure and Operations Engineering You will be responsible for managing and mentoring a multi-functional team across SRE, Operations, Data & AI Platform, and Database Engineering You will own our cloud platform, run infrastructure as a product, and drive enterprise-grade reliability for mission‑critical systems As an engineering leader you’ll be be called on to lead during critical moments and operate with executives of the company Lead and scale a high-performing engineering team responsible for core platform systems used across the company Define and drive multi-quarter platform initiatives that improve system reliability, and product leverage Partner closely with product and engineering leaders to evolve the platform as a product, balancing long-term architecture with near-term business needs Take ambiguous, high-impact problem areas (e.g., system scalability, reliability, platform abstractions) and turn them into explicit execution plans Drive alignment across multiple teams working on complex, interdependent systems including internal platforms, infrastructure as well as cloud governance Raise the bar on engineering quality, operational excellence,



and execution across the platform organization Ability to collaborate and work effectively cross functionally with a strong sense of ownershipClear communication skills and ability to manage escalations with CEO-level visibilityBackground in B2B SaaS or other high‑reliability domains (payments, logistics, safety)Nice to haveExperience in interfacing with vendors, partners and cost governance12+ years in software/infrastructure engineering, including 5+ years leading Infra/SRE/ops orgs and managing managers with a strong sense for systems architectureHigh AI fluency – able to evaluate, integrate, and govern LLM/AI platforms (AWS Bedrock, Anthropic/Claude, OpenAI) for engineering and opsProven record running high‑reliability platforms (SLOs, incidents, on‑call, postmortems). Experience driving processes and programs to raise the bar and engineering excellenceExperience and strong understanding of databases and data platforms (OLTP and analytics), Data and ML/AI infrastructureLeadership of global, distributed teams across time zonesTrack record of running infrastructure as a product (roadmaps, stakeholder comms, adoption)Degree in Computer Science or equivalentDeep experience with AWS at scale (VPC, IAM, multi‑account, core services, observability, cost optimization)

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📌 Director of Engineering (Infrastructure and Operations) (Winnipeg)
🏢 Motive
📍 Winnipeg