Cloud Platform Engineer
- Montreal, QC, Canada
Full-time
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- Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud engineering, systems engineering, or a comparable technical role
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- English
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Original job description
Job Title: Cloud Platform Engineer
Location: Ville Saint-Laurent, QC, or Richmond Hill ON
Job Type: Full-time
Work Environment: Hybrid (3 days per week in the office)
Reporting Structure: Reports to Sr Director, IT Infrastructure
Position Summary
We are seeking a skilled and proactive Cloud Platform Engineer to manage, monitor, and optimize our Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments. This role will be responsible for day-to-day cloud operations, infrastructure engineering, automation, security, governance, cost optimization, and availability of business-critical cloud services and resources. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience, strong AWS and GCP expertise, and experience or working knowledge of Azure, with a focus on continuous improvement and operational excellence.
MTY offers its employees dynamic, unique and valuable professional experience.
Benefits:
- 3 weeks of vacation
- 5 days of flexible sick leaves
- $2000 reimbursement for professional certifications and continuing education requirements
- Flexible working hours
- Half-day Fridays year-round
- Company health and dental plans, with an additional $300 personal wellness expense account
- Employee assistance program with access to mental health, legal, and financial counseling services
- Employee profit-sharing plan with employer contribution
- Monthly company-wide recognition awards
- Company social events, including webinars, town halls, and team activities
- Casual dress code
- Free parking at the office
Key Responsibilities
- Day-to-day administration and support of AWS and GCP infrastructure, including provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Configure and manage identity and access controls, IAM, service accounts, and least-privilege access across cloud environments.
- Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or equivalent technologies.
- Create and maintain automation scripts and workflows using PowerShell, AWS CLI, Google Cloud CLI, Azure CLI, and related tooling.
- Monitor cloud health, performance, logging, and alerting, and support incident response for business-critical cloud services.
- Manage cloud backup, disaster recovery, resiliency, and business continuity solutions.
- Partner with Security teams to remediate cloud security findings and support security and governance controls.
- Optimize cloud costs through resource governance, utilization analysis, right-sizing, and AWS cost management tools.
- Support application, Infrastructure, Data & AI, and DevOps teams with cloud infrastructure and platform requirements.
- Support migration and modernization of legacy workloads and new AWS and GCP projects and initiatives.
- Maintain cloud architecture, operational documentation, standards, and best practices across the multi-cloud environment.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud engineering, systems engineering, or a comparable technical role
- Strong hands-on experience operating production cloud environments and supporting enterprise infrastructure and business-critical workloads
- Strong experience with AWS, including:
- AWS Organizations and multi-account environments
- IAM and IAM Identity Center
- Amazon EC2, EBS, S3, and RDS/Aurora
- VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, NAT, and VPC endpoints
- Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, and CloudFront
- AWS Backup, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, and Systems Manager
- Cost Explorer, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and general AWS cost optimization
- Experience or working knowledge of GCP, including:
- GCP Organizations, Folders, and Projects
- Google Cloud IAM and service accounts
- VPC networking and Cloud DNS
- Cloud Storage and Compute Engine
- Cloud Logging and Monitoring
- Organization Policies and Workload Identity Federation
- GCP security and governance concepts
- Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles
- Experience with Git, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and GitHub Actions
- Experience with scripting and infrastructure automation using PowerShell and cloud command-line tools
- Solid understanding of cloud security principles, IAM, governance, backup, disaster recovery, and resiliency
- Strong troubleshooting and incident-resolution skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, Google Associate Cloud Engineer, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
- Certifications or hands-on experience across more than one cloud platform
- Experience working within multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments
- Experience with AWS services such as ECS, ECR, Lambda, FSx, Transit Gateway, and Control Tower
- Experience supporting GCP-based Data, AI, or application workloads
- Experience with cloud cost management and FinOps practices
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team
- Proactive mindset and strong attention to detail
Working Conditions
- Hybrid work - 3 days per week in one of our offices
- Remaining days may be worked remotely in accordance with MTY policies.
- May require occasional on-call support for critical cloud incidents.
- Regular collaboration with Infrastructure, Security, Data & AI, application, DevOps, and business teams.
Please note that any offer of employment will be conditional upon a background check, including a criminal record check.
*The majority of our clients and a large proportion of our employees are outside Quebec*.
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Responsibilities
Administer, monitor, secure, and optimize AWS and GCP infrastructure, including access controls, infrastructure as code, automation, cloud health, backups, disaster recovery, and cost management. Support cloud migrations and modernization, resolve incidents, and collaborate with security, infrastructure, data, application, and DevOps teams while maintaining operational standards and documentation.
Requirements
Requires at least five years of hands-on cloud or infrastructure engineering experience, strong production AWS expertise, working knowledge of GCP, and experience with Terraform, Git, CI/CD, PowerShell, and cloud command-line tools. Candidates should understand cloud security, governance, backup, disaster recovery, and resiliency; multi-cloud certifications and experience are preferred.
Skills
- AWS
- Google Cloud Platform
- Terraform
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Infrastructure As Code
- Identity And Access Management
- Cloud Security
- PowerShell
- GitHub Actions
- CI/CD
- Cloud Networking
- Cloud Monitoring
- Disaster Recovery
- Cloud Cost Optimization
- Incident Response
- Multi-Cloud Environments
Benefits
- Three Weeks Of Vacation
- Five Flexible Sick Days
- $2,000 Professional Certification And Continuing Education Reimbursement
- Flexible Working Hours
- Year-Round Half-Day Fridays
- Health And Dental Plans
- $300 Personal Wellness Expense Account
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Profit-Sharing Plan With Employer Contribution
- Monthly Company-Wide Recognition Awards
- Company Social Events
- Casual Dress Code
- Free Office Parking
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Technology
- Engineering
- Security & Safety
Keywords
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Cloud Platform
- Microsoft Azure
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Bicep
- PowerShell
- AWS CLI
- Google Cloud CLI
- Azure CLI
- Git
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- CI/CD Pipelines
- AWS Organizations
- IAM Identity Center
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon EBS
- Amazon S3
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon Aurora
- VPC Networking
- Route 53
- Elastic Load Balancing
- CloudFront
- AWS Backup
- CloudWatch
- CloudTrail
- AWS Config
- AWS Systems Manager