Pay Range: $40.00hr - $45.00hr

Job Overview:

Our client is seeking a Lead Middleware Platform Architect to lead the design, implementation, automation, and operationalization of a next-generation data and RDF platform for a global financial institution.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience building and managing enterprise platforms, driving production readiness, implementing infrastructure automation, and supporting highly regulated environments. This role will play a critical part in designing and deploying middleware capabilities, enabling observability, resiliency, security, and platform scalability across multiple environments.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead platform architecture and implementation activities for RDF and middleware platforms.
- Design and implement automation for provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and support.
- Partner with infrastructure, security, and development teams to onboard platforms.
- Drive observability, logging, monitoring, and operational excellence initiatives.
- Develop production runbooks, disaster recovery procedures, and support models.
- Support production readiness reviews and go-live activities.




- Collaborate with third-party vendors on configuration and optimization activities.
- Mentor engineering teams on platform best practices.

Required Skills:

- 10+ years of platform engineering, middleware engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience.
- Strong Linux administration experience.
- Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, or similar container platforms.
- Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools.
- Strong scripting skills using Python, Shell, or similar technologies.
- Experience supporting mission-critical production environments.
- Solid understanding of security and resiliency principles.

Preferred Skills:

- RDF Triple Store experience.
- Graph database technologies.
- Financial Services or Banking domain experience.
- Cloud platform exposure.

What Success Looks Like:

- Successfully delivers production-ready platform environments.
- Establishes automation-first operational practices.
- Implements observability and resiliency standards.
- Enables development teams through stable platform services.

📌 Lead Middleware Platform Architect (Montreal)
🏢 Cynet Systems
📍 Montreal