Senior Platform Engineer
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Job Description
GFL Environmental Inc. is the fourth largest diversified environmental services company in North America. Our vision is to be Green For Life providing accessible cost-effective and sustainable solutions. At the heart of GFL are our peopleTeam Greenand we are looking for a passionate technologist to help build the foundation of our modern IT operations.
The Opportunity
Our platform engineering team is focused on empowering GFLs developers to quickly release secure observable and reliable applications by building a modern lean platform.
Our mission is to build and maintain a platform framework where developers can focus purely on writing code knowing our team handles the complexity of deploying and managing their environments.
As our Senior Platform Engineer youll work directly with the Platform Lead to design and deliver the modular infrastructure and CI/CD frameworks used across the company. This is a high-impact role where youll shape how infrastructure and delivery happen at scale. While Terraform is our primary IaC tool we value agility and pragmatism we use the right tool for the job.
What Youll Do
- Build the Framework: Design and maintain reusable secure and DRY infrastructure modules using Terraform.
- Evolve CI/CD: Engineer and evolve CI/CD pipeline frameworks in GitHub Actions that integrate automated testing security scanning (with Snyk) and deployment workflows.
- Reduce Friction: Define and implement standards and tooling that make it easy for developers to adopt infrastructure and pipelines without friction.
- Architect for Reliability & Cost: Design resilient highly available and cost-effective infrastructure patterns promoting best practices for cloud utilization.
- Enable Observability: Ensure all infrastructure and pipelines emit the right telemetry for downstream monitoring by our SRE/Observability team.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner closely with application developers SRE security and operations engineers to ensure best practices are built into the platform from the start.
- Document for Empowerment: Create high-quality documentation for all frameworks and modules to enable developer self-service.
- Mentor and Collaborate: Mentor a junior engineer and work closely with the Platform Lead on architectural decisions and long-term platform strategy.
What Youll Bring
- 5 years of experience in platform DevOps or cloud infrastructure engineering roles.
- Deep experience designing modular reusable Terraform code with a strong grasp of IaC patterns.
- Strong AWS knowledge across key services (e.g. IAM VPC ECS EKS EC2 KMS etc.).
- Proven ability to build and maintain secure automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
- A pragmatic mindset you care about elegant solutions but not at the cost of delivery.
- A strong belief in automation DRY code and version-controlled infrastructure.
- Comfort collaborating across diverse teams and working directly with developers.
- An understanding of governance compliance and auditable infrastructure.
Bonus Skills
- Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service developer infrastructure.
- Familiarity with container orchestration (ECS EKS Kubernetes).
- Exposure to other IaC tools (CloudFormation Pulumi CDK) or wrappers like Terragrunt.
Why Youll Love Working Here
- Define the Foundation: Work side-by-side with the Platform Lead to build solutions that make a real impact across GFLs engineering organization.
- High-Trust Environment: Join a high-trust low-politics environment where pragmatism beats dogma and good ideas are valued.
- Impact and Ownership: Take ownership of critical components of a new platform and see your work adopted at scale.
- Build Whats Right: Help build a platform that is secure scalable and valued by its developer users.
We thank you for your interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
