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Platform Engineer

Job in Toronto, Ontario, M5A, Canada
Listing for: Manulife
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-06
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, SRE/Site Reliability
Job Description & How to Apply Below

The customer is at the focus of everything we do, and millions of end users rely on our products daily. We believe in the value of empowering engineers with the resources to solve critical problems for the future of the business and technology partners, which is why we need you.

We are seeking motivated engineers, who are obsessed with delivering quality service and value, are forward-thinking problem solvers, who love to learn from both successes and failures. You are passionate about the “Why” and like to seek out answers to understand how we do things and how we can continuously improve. You are excited to build and support Dev Ops platforms to help provide enablement to our Engineering squads.

Supporting them to realize and refine their Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery practices and providing real value to their day-to-day software development lifecycle.

We are growing, and we are looking for a Dev Ops Platform Engineer for our team!

Position Responsibilities:

  • Complete evaluation, identification, and automation for the administration of various tools used in the Dev Ops Engineering Infrastructure

  • Develop, build and maintain pipeline automation scripts and process

  • Support and maintain the Dev Ops tooling platforms, including participation in an off-hours on-call rotation. Select regular working hours will overlap Monday–Friday with Canada Eastern Time business hours.

  • Apply organizational and problem-solving abilities that enable you to manage through creative abrasion.

  • Leverage strong verbal and written communication with the ability to effectively articulate and communicate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes.

  • Collaborate with product managers, software engineers, and operations engineers to uncover pain points and opportunities to deliver new business value through innovative platform solutions.

  • Participating in ideation and brainstorming sessions to devise creative platform solutions. We need and value fresh ideas!

  • Leading various investigative "Spikes" in order to mitigate technical uncertainty and risk.

  • Be part or lead some initiatives to develop and improve standards, practices and methodologies.

  • Working closely with the Technical Product Owner to refine the Product Backlog including providing initial estimates and actively participating with the weekly Look Ahead meetings.

  • Promote a co-operative work environment through building relationships with our stakeholders and driving enhancements to the end-to-end process (workstation to production)

  • Collaborate with architects and solution delivery leadership to understand, design and deliver platform desired state configuration

  • Delver implementation of production reliability and usage metric capture, targeting logging, monitoring, and automated insight’s, optimize user experience by collaborating with platform users to understand context and challenges

  • Mentor and coach other platform engineers on the team as required

  • Required Qualifications:

  • Platform technical delivery services (3 to 5 years)

  • Advanced knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes clusters (Azure Kubernetes Service knowledge is a plus) as well as other components supporting a highly automated, resilient engineering platform

  • Experience working with Public/Private/Hybrid cloud architecture (PaaS), preferably Azure, AKS, Azure SQL, etc.

  • Knowledge or experience with SCM tools and best practices (GIT, Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Artifactory, Sonar Qube, Snyk, Git Guardian)

  • Knowledge of Configuration Management tools (Chef, Ansible, etc.,)

  • Experience with OS platforms such as Linux, Unix and Windows

  • Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Power Shell, etc.

  • Experience with networking protocols such as TCP, UDP, HTTP, etc and network security protocols such as SFTP, HTTPS, TLS, etc

  • Experience with Platform monitoring and continuous improvement

  • Experience administering and configuring web server technologies (Apache, Web Logic, Nginx, etc.,)

  • Experience with Database Technologies such as MS SQL, Oracle, DB2 and query languages such as PSQL, TSQL

  • Working with Agile and Lean solution delivery models and tools

  • Preferred Qualifications:

  • Use AI assistants and agents (e.g., Git Hub Copilot and…

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