Staff Engineer - Cloud Platform

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Engineer - Cloud Platform based in Canada. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on building and operating highly scalable, secure, and resilient cloud platforms for next-generation broadband services. You will shape platform architecture, modernization, automation, and reliability strategies across complex cloud and telecom environments. The role combines deep hands-on engineering with technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, networking, messaging, and observability. You will work extensively with Google Cloud, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and distributed systems. Your work will help engineering teams deliver products faster while maintaining carrier-grade reliability and operational excellence. You will collaborate across Engineering, SRE, Network Operations, Product, and Customer Success teams in a highly distributed environment. The position offers significant scope to influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and drive strategic platform initiatives. Accountabilities - Design, architect, and operate highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient cloud platform infrastructure, while driving modernization through cloud-native technologies and automation. - Define and implement strategies for platform reliability, observability, disaster recovery, capacity management, and operational excellence. - Troubleshoot complex end-to-end service issues across cloud infrastructure, network services, broadband access environments, and customer-facing applications. - Design and operate NATS messaging infrastructure and HAProxy-based traffic management, including load balancing, routing, SSL termination, high availability, and performance optimization. - Build scalable service communication frameworks using event-driven architectures, service discovery, fault tolerance, and resiliency patterns.

- Design and manage Google Cloud infrastructure, including GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, and Composer/Airflow. - Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Terragrunt, automating provisioning, deployment, compliance, and operational workflows. - Develop reusable platform services and self-service capabilities that improve engineering productivity and accelerate application delivery. - Design and maintain enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions. - Establish and enhance monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting using technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaLogs, and cloud monitoring services. - Lead root cause analysis and incident response for critical platform and network issues, identifying opportunities for proactive prevention. - Partner with Product, Engineering, SRE, Network Operations, technical support, and Customer Success teams to deliver strategic platform initiatives. - Develop technical roadmaps, contribute to architecture governance and design reviews, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers across cloud, networking, reliability, and telecom domains. Requirements - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. - 8+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments. - 5+ years of hands-on experience with public cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform. - Strong hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and containerized platforms. - Deep understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, routing and switching, NAT, DNS, DHCP, firewalls, VPN technologies, and load balancing. - Practical experience configuring, tuning, troubleshooting, and operating HAProxy in highly available environments.