Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Title: Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Ville Saint-Laurent, QC, or Richmond Hill ON

Job Type: Full-time

Work Environment: Hybrid (3 days per week in the office)

Reporting Structure: Reports to Sr Director, IT Infrastructure

Position Summary

We are seeking a skilled and proactive Cloud Platform Engineer to manage, monitor, and optimize our Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments. This role will be responsible for day-to-day cloud operations, infrastructure engineering, automation, security, governance, cost optimization, and availability of business-critical cloud services and resources. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience, strong AWS and GCP expertise, and experience or working knowledge of Azure, with a focus on continuous improvement and operational excellence.

MTY offers its employees dynamic, unique and valuable professional experience.

Benefits:

• 3 weeks of vacation
• 5 days of flexible sick leaves
• $2000 reimbursement for professional certifications and continuing education requirements
• Flexible working hours
• Half-day Fridays year-round
• Company health and dental plans, with an additional $300 personal wellness expense account
• Employee assistance program with access to mental health, legal, and financial counseling services
• Employee profit-sharing plan with employer contribution
• Monthly company-wide recognition awards
• Company social events, including webinars, town halls, and team activities
• Casual dress code
• Free parking at the office

Key Responsibilities

• Day-to-day administration and support of AWS and GCP infrastructure, including provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

• Configure and manage identity and access controls, IAM, service accounts, and least-privilege access across cloud environments.

• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or equivalent technologies.

• Create and maintain automation scripts and workflows using PowerShell, AWS CLI, Google Cloud CLI, Azure CLI, and related tooling.

• Monitor cloud health, performance, logging, and alerting, and support incident response for business-critical cloud services.

• Manage cloud backup, disaster recovery, resiliency, and business continuity solutions.

• Partner with Security teams to remediate cloud security findings and support security and governance controls.

• Optimize cloud costs through resource governance, utilization analysis, right-sizing, and AWS cost management tools.

• Support application, Infrastructure, Data & AI, and DevOps teams with cloud infrastructure and platform requirements.

• Support migration and modernization of legacy workloads and new AWS and GCP projects and initiatives.

• Maintain cloud architecture, operational documentation, standards, and best practices across the multi-cloud environment.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud engineering, systems engineering, or a comparable technical role

• Strong hands-on experience operating production cloud environments and supporting enterprise infrastructure and business-critical workloads

• Strong experience with AWS, including:

• AWS Organizations and multi-account environments

• IAM and IAM Identity Center

• Amazon EC2, EBS, S3, and RDS/Aurora

• VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, NAT, and VPC endpoints

• Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, and CloudFront

• AWS Backup, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, and Systems Manager

• Cost Explorer, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and general AWS cost optimization

• Experience or working knowledge of GCP, including:

• GCP Organizations, Folders, and Projects

• Google Cloud IAM and service accounts

• VPC networking and Cloud DNS

• Cloud Storage and Compute Engine

• Cloud Logging and Monitoring

• Organization Policies and Workload Identity Federation

• GCP security and governance concepts

• Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles

• Experience with Git, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and GitHub Actions

• Experience with scripting and infrastructure automation using PowerShell and cloud command-line tools

• Solid understanding of cloud security principles, IAM, governance, backup, disaster recovery, and resiliency

• Strong troubleshooting and incident-resolution skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, Google Associate Cloud Engineer, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

• Certifications or hands-on experience across more than one cloud platform

• Experience working within multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments

• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, ECR, Lambda, FSx, Transit Gateway, and Control Tower

• Experience supporting GCP-based Data, AI, or application workloads

• Experience with cloud cost management and FinOps practices

• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities

• Excellent communication and documentation skills

• Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team

• Proactive mindset and strong attention to detail

Working Conditions

• Hybrid work - 3 days per week in one of our offices

• Remaining days may be worked remotely in accordance with MTY policies.

• May require occasional on-call support for critical cloud incidents.

• Regular collaboration with Infrastructure, Security, Data & AI, application, DevOps, and business teams.

Please note that any offer of employment will be conditional upon a background check, including a criminal record check.

*The majority of our clients and a large proportion of our employees are outside Quebec*.