Ledgebrook is an AI-native specialty insurance platform. We built our technology from scratch, with AI in it from the first line of code. The technology helps price the risk; We are insurance industry insiders, and we eat our own cooking: Ledgebrook writes the policy and shares the risk through our own carrier, Ledgebrook Specialty, rated A- (Excellent) by AM Best. We work exclusively through wholesale brokers.

Our vision: to make the wheels of insurance spin faster. Care, Strive, Thrive Together. To that end we’ve replaced all individual incentives with generous equity packages—we play as a team, we win as a team.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work closely with the engineering team on cloud infrastructure reliability and scalability. You'll help streamline developer workflows and build self-service platform features that support engineering teams. You will identify infrastructure and process bottlenecks, improve deployment automation, and help maintain developer velocity so teams can ship reliable software efficiently.

Manage AWS Cloud Infrastructure: Contribute to our core AWS cloud environment. Architecting, securing, and maintaining highly available, cost-efficient infrastructure, including robust AWS networking configurations (VPCs, subnets, and route tables).

Administer Kubernetes: Manage, optimize, and monitor our AWS Kubernetes clusters, ensuring robust container orchestration, healthy resource allocation, and smooth scaling.

Automate Deployment Pipelines: Architect, implement, and maintain secure, reliable CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD and GitHub Actions to automate software delivery.

Optimize Network & Traffic Control: Manage AWS Infrastructure as Code: Codify and maintain all cloud resources using Terraform, ensuring environment consistency across staging and production. We love working with people who are eager to learn constantly and genuinely excited about the chaotic, rewarding process of building a company from the ground up. We have a strict zero-tolerance policy for toxic behaviors.

Customer-First Empathy:



You are passionate about delivering an exceptional experience to everyone you work with, both inside and outside the company. When things go wrong, you don't look for blame—you immediately focus on how to fix it. Team-First Energy: You want to win together as a high-performing team and actively build connections across our remote locations. 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). ~ Hands-on AWS expertise: Robust experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, including robust AWS networking (VPCs, subnets, routing). ~ Experience administering, scaling, and monitoring containerized environments. ~ Proven expertise in building deployment pipelines using ArgoCD and GitHub Actions. ~ Hands-on experience writing and modularizing Helm charts to package applications for developer self-service. ~ Service mesh networking: Experience configuring traffic routing, security policies, and observability using Istio. ~ OPA Gatekeeper policies PostgreSQL Python, Bash Cloud Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform CI/CD & Deployments: Packaging & Templating: Helm Full remote flexibility and asynchronous work culture.

Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus HSA and FSA options. Additional financial protection and retirement benefits, including a 401(k), company-paid life insurance, and disability coverage. Ledgebrook may use Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) as part of the job application process, including to assist us in evaluating your application.AI is used as a support tool, and hiring decisions are made by human recruiters.

By submitting your information, you acknowledge that the company may use AI tools as part of our evaluation. If you need a reasonable accommodation or alternative review process because of a disability or other legally protected basis, contact [email protected] is a good-faith compensation range based on what Ledgebrook reasonably expects to pay for this position at the time of this posting. Employees in this position are eligible to participate in Ledgebrook’s equity incentive program. #

📌 Sr Platform Engineer (Ottawa)
🏢 Ledgebrook Insurance
📍 Ottawa