Platform Engineer

Job Title: Platform Engineer
Job Location: Montreal QC
Job Duration: 11 Months on T4

Job Description:
As a leader in micromobility *** powers millions of rides daily across over 200 cities with our cutting-edge ride-sharing bike-sharing and scooter-sharing technologies. Our Montreal office is the birthplace of North Americas first automated bike-share system Bixi which has since revolutionized urban mobility. Today our pioneering system is operational in more than 50 cities worldwide including Barcelona Bogota Boston Buenos Aires Chicago Dubai London Madrid Mexico City Montreal New York Rio de Janeiro San Francisco and Washington DC to name just a few. Join us and be part of the team behind some of the worlds largest and most successful bike-share systems!

The *** Urban Solutions team is developing the future of micro-mobility and we are looking for a solid experienced Infrastructure Consultant for our Cloud Platform Infrastructure team to work on helping us transition our customers to our latest generation platform and to make the platform evolve in a solution that can be brought to multiple different markets and business models.

Requirements:

• Use the core Site Reliability Engineering principles of change management monitoring emergency response capacity planning and production readiness reviews to run the platform.
• Build infrastructure and drive projects that break things with the aim to improve the robustness of production systems.
• Build holistic visibility into SLIs SLOs SLAs dependency graphs past performance of software network and system to ensure that we can continue to scale without increasing operational burden or toil.
• Step back to observe patterns and develop innovative tools and automation to minimize toil.
• Use those learnings to drive the best operational practices.
• Share on-call responsibilities with other teammates and own the improvement of the teams on-call practices Unblock support and effectively communicate across teams to achieve results.
• Assist in cost engineering efforts to ensure efficient use of cloud resources.

Responsibilites:

• AWS & Terraform Expertise:Expert-level proficiency in AWS architecture and services coupled with mastery of Terraform for complex IaC module development and state management.
• Programming for Reliability: Solid development experience in Go (Golang) for building production-ready platform tooling and services.
• Automation & Scripting: Strong proficiency in Python for automation scripting and API integration (e.g. Boto3).
• Application Support: Familiarity with the Java ecosystem for effective support and deep-dive troubleshooting of application-level issues (e.g. JVM profiling).
• Code Management: Source control best practices using Git.
• Cloud Security & Compliance: Deep commitment to security fundamentals (least-privilege blast radius minimization) and experience operating in highly regulated environments (e.g. PCI compliance).
• Networking & Connectivity: Deep understanding of VPC fundamentals inter-VPC connectivity (Peering Transit Gateway) DNS management (Route53) and Load Balancing (ALB). Experience with VPNs and Direct Connect is valuable.
• Containerization & Policy: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes manifests and operational knowledge of its components including policy enforcement using Admission Controllers (e.g. OPA Gatekeeper).
• Observability & SLOs: Expertise in designing and implementing advanced observability solutions (metrics logs traces) and practical experience defining monitoring and managing SLIs/SLOs to govern service reliability.