Senior Manager Platform Engineering

Title:

Senior Manager Platform Engineering

Requisition :

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Scotiabank has embarked on the journey to modernize both development practices and tools. One of the main areas of transformation is the public cloud and the various platform technologies that support both development and operations on the cloud. The aim is to provide a streamlined process and framework which will allow the development teams to focus on building business logic. We are looking to build our development team with influencer, makers, creators and industry leaders who will drive us forward.

The Senior Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering role will be responsible for leading a team of engineers, automation experts that build, operate and evolve the Enterprise Security cloud platforms (such as Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, security, observability and other integrations). This consists of platform building, tooling, integration, process automation, platform enhancement, and delivery of new projects.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:

• Lead and develop Cloud Platform Engineering teams responsible for designing, building and operating scalable, secure and reliable cloud platforms for Enterprise Security
• Execute Cloud Platform strategy, roadmap and engineering standards across environments
• Drive platform automation using Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, Git Ops and policy-as-code to improve operational efficiency and consistency
• Partner with application engineering, architecture and product teams to enable efficient onboarding and adoption of the cloud platform
• Manage senior engineers through hiring, coaching, performance management, succession planning and career development
• Establish and track engineering KPIs, including platform availability, deployment metrics, service level objectives (SLOs)
• Manage budgets, vendor relationships, technology investments, and cloud spending while balancing business priorities
• Lead the team to provide Level 3 support responsibilities
• Ensure software, programs, and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity, and reliability requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• 10+ years of software, application or cloud engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience managing high-performing engineering teams
• 5+ years of relevant experience with designing and implementing cloud platforms including Kubernetes (GKE, AKS or EKS), internal developer platforms at enterprise scale
• 3+ years of hands-on experience using Terraform, CI/CD, Git Ops, automation and cloud-native technologies
• 3+ years of experience with Platform Reliability, Observability, SRE practices, incident management and operational excellence
• Enthusiasm for cloud transformation and cloud platform/components/services development
• Experience in delivering enterprise systems collaborating and driving solutions with multiple teams across the organization
• Sufficient domain expertise in cloud platform features and capabilities
• Strong communication skills, both written and spoken; of specific importance is strong communication to a technical audience
• Knowledge of software design patterns, infrastructure architecture, Dev Ops, and security considerations
• Awareness of how scalable, enterprise-level software system is designed (both on code and infrastructure levels)
• Experience working with relational databases
• Strong understanding of cloud security, networking, workload identity, policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper), and secrets management
• Desire to learn, grow yourself and your team
• Passion for driving teams towards high performance and a deep pride in quality craftsmanship that delights users
• Writing and maintaining related documentation
• Investigating, analyzing, and resolving system problems
• Experience with Kubernetes or containerized applications is required
• Google Professional Cloud Architect would be an asset
• Experience with in Canadian financial institutions a benefit
• Bachelor (equivalent or higher) degree in computer science or engineering/mathematics…