Platform Engineering Lead.

Accountabilities

• Lead and develop the team: Manage engineers through regular one-to-ones, career development plans, performance reviews, and hiring. Coach senior engineers and foster accountability, collaboration, and shared ownership.

• Establish team priorities: Maintain a transparent, ranked backlog, assess requests from Product, Program Management, and customers, and determine what should be prioritized, deferred, or stopped.

• Own the platform roadmap: Partner with Product to plan infrastructure, reliability, security, tooling, and customer-environment improvements alongside product development.

• Guide technical direction: Define platform architecture and technical decision-making practices, lead design and code reviews, contribute to implementation, and evaluate major technical changes and deployments.

• Improve engineering productivity: Define and monitor delivery metrics, including deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, recovery time, and build and test duration. Improve CI/CD pipelines, preview environments, deployment safety, and automated rollback.

• Leverage AI and automation: Introduce AI-assisted development tools and deterministic automation, establish appropriate access guardrails, and track productivity gains. Oversee related tooling, licensing, access, and budget.

• Manage cloud costs: Own infrastructure budgets across GCP, AWS, and related tools; forecast spending, monitor variances, establish cost targets, and improve cost visibility across customers, environments, and products.

• Ensure reliability and security: Define service level objectives, oversee on-call practices, incident response, alerts, and blameless reviews. Partner with privacy and security leadership on SOC 2 controls, including access management, secrets, CI, and audit evidence.

• Communicate progress and risks: Report on roadmap delivery, infrastructure spending, operational risks, and investment needs to senior leadership.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability engineering, or platform engineering, including at least 3 years managing engineers.

• Demonstrated experience setting technical direction and priorities for a platform or infrastructure team and managing senior engineers.

• Production experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Strong hands-on technical skills, including the ability to review infrastructure plans, assess architecture proposals, review code, and contribute to implementation.

• Direct accountability for a cloud infrastructure budget, with demonstrable examples of cost reductions and measurable results.

• Experience improving developer productivity through delivery metrics, process improvements, and engineering tooling.

• A track record of automating repetitive operational tasks and increasing the effectiveness of small engineering teams.

• Familiarity with SOC 2 or comparable security and compliance frameworks, and the ability to work with sensitive health or genomic data subject to strict access controls and auditing.

• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions, trade-offs, costs, and risks to non-technical stakeholders.

• Comfortable collaborating across teams and global time zones.

• Nice to have: Concourse CI experience; experience managing multiple environments through a shared platform; AI-assisted development and automation expertise; experience with cost allocation or showback models or internal developer platforms; familiarity with Java and Spring Boot, GA4GH standards, or WDL workflow engines.

Benefits:

• Annual salary range of CAD-equivalent? The posting specifies $165,000–$185,000; the currency is not explicitly stated in the supplied text.

• Remote-friendly work arrangement, with flexible hours and the option to work from the Toronto office.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents.

• Three weeks of vacation.

• Unlimited sick days.

• Maternity and parental leave top-up programs.

• One-time remote office setup stipend.

• Career development and learning support.

• Opportunity to participate in an employee stock option program.

• Opportunity to contribute to open science and global biomedical data-sharing initiatives.