Our partner is looking for a Platform Engineering Lead based in Canada.

The Platform Engineering

Lead will shape the strategy, technical direction, and day-to-day execution of a platform engineering function supporting complex, cloud-based products. This player-coach role combines people leadership with hands‑on technical contribution across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, automation, CI/CD, security, and reliability. Working across engineering, product, security, and leadership teams, you will help create a reliable and efficient environment for delivering software.

Your work will support biomedical data sharing and research initiatives with meaningful applications in precision medicine. Manage engineers through regular one‑to‑ones, career development plans, performance reviews, and hiring. Coach senior engineers and foster accountability, collaboration, and shared ownership.

Maintain a transparent, ranked backlog, assess requests from Product, Program Management, and customers, and determine what should be prioritized, deferred, or stopped. Partner with Product to plan infrastructure, reliability, security, tooling, and customer‑environment improvements alongside product development.

Guide technical direction: Define platform architecture and technical decision‑making practices, lead design and code reviews, contribute to implementation, and evaluate major technical changes and deployments.

Improve engineering productivity: Define and monitor delivery metrics, including deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, recovery time, and build and test duration. Improve CI/CD pipelines, preview environments, deployment safety, and automated rollback.

Leverage AI and automation: Introduce AI‑assisted development tools and deterministic automation, establish appropriate access guardrails, and track productivity gains. Own infrastructure budgets across GCP, AWS, and related tools; forecast spending, monitor variances, establish cost targets, and improve cost visibility across customers, environments, and products.





Communicate progress and risks: Report on roadmap delivery, infrastructure spending, operational risks, and investment needs to senior leadership. 8+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability engineering, or platform engineering, including at least 3 years managing engineers. ~ Demonstrated experience setting technical direction and priorities for a platform or infrastructure team and managing senior engineers. ~ Production experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS). ~ Strong hands‑on technical skills, including the ability to review infrastructure plans, assess architecture proposals, review code, and contribute to implementation. ~ Experience improving developer productivity through delivery metrics, process improvements, and engineering tooling. ~ A track record of automating repetitive operational tasks and increasing the effectiveness of small engineering teams. ~ Familiarity with SOC 2 or comparable security and compliance frameworks, and the ability to work with sensitive health or genomic data subject to strict access controls and auditing. ~ Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions, trade‑offs, costs, and risks to non‑technical stakeholders. ~ AI‑assisted developmentand automation expertise;

experience with cost allocation or showback models or internal developer platforms; familiarity with Java and Spring Boot, GA4GH standards, or WDL workflow engines. Annual salary range of CAD‑equivalent? Remote‑friendly work arrangement, with flexible schedule and the option to work from the Toronto office.

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents. Three weeks of vacation. Maternity and parental leave top‑up programs. One‑time remote office setup stipend. Opportunity to contribute to open science and global biomedical data‑sharing initiatives.

We use an AI‑powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role’s core requirements.

📌 Platform Engineering Lead (Winnipeg)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 Winnipeg