Cloud Platform Engineer

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:

Strong 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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