Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Ville Saint-Laurent, QC, or Richmond Hill ONJob Type: Full-timeWork Environment: Hybrid (3 days per week in the office)Reporting Structure: Reports to Sr Director, IT InfrastructurePosition SummaryWe 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.
3 weeks of vacation
5 days of flexible sick leaves
$2000 reimbursement for professional certifications and continuing education requirements
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*.
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