Senior Platform Engineer – Azure
Location: Toronto, ON – Hybrid
Duration: 6-month contract
Start Date: September 28, 2026
Hours: Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM | 37.5 hours/week
Interview Process: 2 rounds – Hiring Manager + Technical Team
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join a leading Bank’s Technology Infrastructure / Cloud Platform Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to design, build, and enhance enterprise-scale cloud platforms in Microsoft Azure.
The team develops reusable platform services, infrastructure automation, CI/CD capabilities, container platforms, observability solutions, and cloud-native engineering solutions that enable development teams across the organization.
The successful candidate will play a key role in building scalable, secure, resilient, and highly automated Azure platform capabilities while supporting modern cloud-native applications and emerging AI/GenAI initiatives.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and support enterprise-scale Azure cloud platform capabilities.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure using Terraform / Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Build, manage, and optimize Kubernetes and Docker container platforms.
- Design and improve CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation.
- Develop automation scripts and platform tooling using Python and Bash.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and observability solutions.
- Support scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
- Implement and manage authentication, authorization, and access-control solutions.
- Build reusable platform services that can be leveraged across multiple engineering teams.
- Collaborate with Cloud Architects, Software Engineers, Security Teams, DevOps Teams, ML Engineers, and delivery partners.
- Troubleshoot complex platform and infrastructure issues and continuously improve engineering practices.
- Contribute to emerging AI, GenAI, and RAG platform initiatives.
Must-Have Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and supporting Microsoft Azure environments.
- Strong experience with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker/container platforms.
- Strong experience developing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong Python scripting/automation experience.
- Experience with cloud platform operations, scalability, resiliency, and security.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools.
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, and access control.
- Demonstrated experience building scalable and automated cloud infrastructure solutions.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience supporting GenAI, AI/ML, or RAG platforms.
- Azure API Management (APIM).
- Bash scripting.
- Databricks.
- Experience building reusable enterprise platform services.
- Experience within financial services or banking environments.
What Makes This Opportunity Exciting?
- Build enterprise-scale Azure cloud platforms used across a large organization.
- Work with modern technologies including Kubernetes, Terraform, DevOps, APIs, and microservices.
- Gain exposure to emerging AI, GenAI, and RAG initiatives.
- Collaborate closely with architecture, security, engineering, and delivery teams.
- Create reusable platform capabilities that have an impact across multiple teams.
- Work in a collaborative environment with a strong focus on innovation and continuous improvement.
Ideal Candidate
We’re looking for someone who is highly hands-on, technically strong, and comfortable working across cloud infrastructure, automation, DevOps, and platform engineering. You should have a strong troubleshooting mindset, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with architecture, security, engineering, and delivery stakeholders.
