Senior Cloud Platform Developer
Term: 12 months (strong possibility of extension)
Location: Vancouver — Hybrid, 3 days/week on-site
Overview
Seeking a Senior Platform Developer to support the evolution of its modern cloud-native platform, with emphasis on developer experience, automation, reliability, and operational excellence. This senior individual contributor will design, build, and maintain platform capabilities across Kubernetes, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code environments, driving standards around observability, governance, resiliency, security, and cost optimization. The role contributes to core platform services including CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and control-plane capabilities. Highly hands-on; suited for someone who works autonomously and owns technical outcomes for a scalable, maintainable cloud-native ecosystem.
Must-Have
- 7+ years in Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or SRE within cloud-native environments.
- Strong Kubernetes expertise: controllers/operators, CRDs, Crossplane, Kubernetes automation.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or C#, with experience building automation frameworks, platform services, or infrastructure tooling.
- Hands-on with GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD: ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform, and/or Crossplane.
- Track record driving platform reliability and operational excellence via observability, automation, resiliency, performance optimization, and system-level troubleshooting.
Responsibilities
- Act as a courageous safety leader; adhere to and sponsor safety and environmental rules and procedures.
- Serve as a senior individual contributor on the Platform team across multiple areas of cloud-native development and support.
- Implement observability, governance, and automation frameworks for performance, reliability, security, and compliance.
- Drive guidelines for GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and Kubernetes automation.
- Ensure systems are resilient, cost-efficient, and optimized for performance while keeping platform capabilities pragmatic and maintainable.
- Build and support CI/CD pipelines for a resilient developer SDLC.
- Contribute to technical direction through design reviews, RFCs, and mentoring.
- Participate in operational readiness, incident review, and continuous platform improvement.
Qualifications
- 7+ years in platform, cloud infrastructure, or SRE roles.
- Strong programming in Python, Go, or C#, ideally including controllers, operators, or automation systems.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes, controller-runtime, and Crossplane composition frameworks.
- Experience with ArgoCD, Helm, and IaC (Terraform or Crossplane).
- Hands-on GitOps experience maintaining system consistency.
- Experience supporting/building data infrastructure platforms (MLOps, ETL, streaming or batch systems).
- Strong grounding in cost efficiency, performance profiling, and system-level debugging.
- Proven ability to take initiative, work autonomously, and drive projects to completion.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with willingness to challenge the status quo.