What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager of Cloud Platform Engineering position at Jobgether?
This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Manager of Cloud Platform Engineering in Canada.
This is an exciting leadership opportunity for an experienced cloud infrastructure professional passionate about building scalable, secure, and high-performing platforms in a fully remote environment. The role focuses on leading a high-impact cloud engineering team responsible for supporting large-scale SaaS infrastructure handling billions of annual requests. You will play a strategic role in shaping cloud architecture, driving operational excellence, and optimizing infrastructure costs while partnering closely with engineering, product, and finance stakeholders. The position combines hands-on technical leadership with organizational influence, making it ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced, cloud-native ecosystems. You will help define infrastructure best practices, strengthen automation and observability, and foster a culture centered on scalability, reliability, and ownership. This role offers the opportunity to work with modern DevOps tooling and contribute directly to mission-critical systems used globally.
\n- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of cloud platform engineers while fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
- Oversee the scalability, reliability, performance, and security of cloud infrastructure supporting high-volume SaaS operations.
- Manage and optimize AWS-based environments, including EKS/Kubernetes clusters, networking, storage, and cloud-native services.
- Drive operational excellence by improving CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, observability systems, and infrastructure automation processes.
- Partner closely with finance and leadership teams to manage cloud spending, improve cost visibility, and implement effective FinOps strategies.
- Define and enforce infrastructure governance standards related to security, scalability, deployment processes, and platform reliability across engineering teams.
- Act as a technical advisor on cloud architecture decisions and support product teams in building scalable infrastructure solutions by default.
- Identify operational bottlenecks, propose architectural improvements, and lead strategic infrastructure initiatives from conception through execution.
- Communicate complex technical tradeoffs and infrastructure strategies clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Support security and compliance initiatives through modern cloud security practices, access controls, and infrastructure governance frameworks.
Requirements:
- 10 years of experience in technology roles, including at least 5 years managing engineering or cloud infrastructure teams in cloud-native environments.
- Deep expertise within the AWS ecosystem, including EKS/Kubernetes, IAM, VPC, RDS, and scalable cloud infrastructure architecture.
- Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and modern DevOps workflows.
- Advanced knowledge of GitOps methodologies, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud automation best practices.
- Proven experience managing large-scale cloud infrastructure budgets and implementing successful cloud cost optimization initiatives.
- Strong understanding of scalability, reliability engineering, observability, and operational performance optimization.
- Ability to independently lead complex infrastructure initiatives with minimal oversight in fast-paced environments.
- Familiarity with cloud security principles, SOC 2 compliance, zero-trust architectures, and network security best practices.
- Experience with Cloudflare technologies, including WAF, CDN, or edge infrastructure services, is considered a plus.
- Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Benefits:
- Fully remote work environment with global collaboration opportunities.
- Opportunity to lead infrastructure initiatives supporting large-scale, high-impact SaaS platforms.
- Exposure to modern cloud-native technologies, DevOps tooling, and scalable distributed systems.
- Strong autonomy and leadership influence over cloud platform strategy and engineering practices.
- Collaborative and innovation-focused engineering culture.
- Career growth opportunities within a rapidly scaling technology organization.
- Flexible work environment designed to support productivity and work-life balance.
- Inclusive and diverse workplace culture that values different perspectives and experiences.
- Opportunity to work alongside highly skilled global engineering and infrastructure teams.
How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
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