Platform Engineering Manager

🔥 17 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $120k - $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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WCG Services

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1998

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

WCG Services is a leader in the development and delivery of employment and rehabilitation services in Canada. With over 30 years of experience, WCG is dedicated to strengthening Canada's workforce by providing innovative and community-based solutions for job seekers and employers. Part of the APM Group, WCG delivers both local and international services in employment and allied health sectors. The company is committed to empowering individuals through work, facilitating economic growth, and enhancing communities by connecting job seekers with employment opportunities and supporting employers in finding the right talent.

📋 Description

• Define, build, and operate the internal platform as a product for developers and IT teams • Develop and execute a platform roadmap, service catalog, and self-service capabilities • Create reusable components and standardized patterns for environment provisioning, templates, and pipelines • Continuously improve developer experience by reducing friction and increasing autonomy • Architect and manage Azure and AWS cloud environments, including high availability, disaster recovery, and resilience strategies • Lead adoption of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, and ARM • Define scalable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure patterns • Partner with Security teams to embed security into CI/CD pipelines and platform services • Implement automated security controls, including SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and secrets management • Ensure compliance with regulatory and organizational requirements • Enforce policy-as-code, least-privilege access, zero-trust principles, and identity and access management • Leverage AI/ML for operational insights, anomaly detection, cost optimization, incident response, and engineering productivity • Establish and govern scalable, secure, and reusable integration patterns across APIs, messaging, and event-driven architecture • Drive CI/CD pipeline maturity and release automation • Enable fully automated provisioning and deployment workflows • Implement observability practices including monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting • Support reliability targets, incident response, and continuous improvement • Contribute to platform governance, standards, and alignment across Security, Architecture, and Development teams

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field • Seven (7) + years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering • Three (3) + years in leadership roles • Strong experience with Microsoft Azure; working knowledge of AWS • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM) • Experience implementing DevSecOps practices and secure pipelines • Experience designing and managing integrations and APIs • Familiarity with AI tools and their application in engineering workflows • Experience with observability, monitoring, reliability engineering, and incident management practices • Strong understanding of identity and access management, including lifecycle and access control models • Experience working in Agile/DevOps environments • Azure Solutions Architect Expert / DevOps Engineer Expert certification preferred • AWS Certifications preferred • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or similar preferred • Experience implementing platform engineering / internal developer platforms preferred • Experience with AI/ML platforms or MLOps concepts preferred • Experience with FinOps practices and cloud cost governance preferred • Experience in regulated or security-sensitive environments preferred • Candidates who do not quite have the above credentials are encouraged to apply anyway

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive and flexible health and dental benefits • RRSP Matching program of 1.5% base earnings • Ongoing learning and development opportunities • Generous time-off policies that promote work/life balance • A diverse and inclusive workplace with a track record of high employee engagement and teamwork • The opportunity to do work that makes a difference