Platform Engineering Lead

DNAstack

. Lead and grow the platform engineering team through 1:1s, career conversations, growth plans, performance reviews and hiring .

Posted 11/3/2026full-timeRemote • CanadaSenior💰 CA$165,000 - CA$185,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading platform engineering teams, setting technical direction, and managing cloud budgets while ensuring platform reliability and security. Proficient in leveraging automation and metrics to enhance developer productivity and operational efficiency.

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Platform Engineering LeadershipKubernetes Production ExperienceCloud Budget ManagementSOC 2 Compliance ExperienceAutomation of Operational Work

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Hard Skills

DevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringKubernetesTerraformCI SystemsCloud Budget ManagementDeveloper Productivity MetricsAutomationCost Allocation Models

Soft Skills

Strong CommunicationCollaborationCoachingEmpowermentAccountability

Tools & Technologies

GCPAWSConcourse CIAI Automation ToolsDrata

Industry Keywords

SOC 2Health Data ComplianceGenomic Data Access RulesTechnical DirectionIncident Response

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesSpringSpring BootSpringBootTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and grow the platform engineering team through 1:1s, career conversations, growth plans, performance reviews and hiring
Own team rituals, including planning, retrospectives and incident reviews
Build shared ownership through primary and secondary owners, pairing, shared on-call and written decisions
Coach senior engineers and build a culture of empowerment, accountability and collaboration
Maintain a ranked list of priorities and triage requests from Product, Program Management and customers
Plan the platform roadmap with Product, including reliability, security, tooling and customer environments
Report progress, risks and spend to the VP of Product Development and leadership team
Set platform technical direction and how technical decisions are made, documented and revisited
Guide architecture through design reviews, code reviews and hands-on implementation
Review major changes and new customer deployments for cost and risk
Define and improve delivery metrics, including deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, time to restore, and build and test durations
Set direction for CI, preview environments, progressive rollouts and automated rollback
Use AI and deterministic automation with guardrails and KPIs tracking time saved
Own AI-assisted development platform tooling, access, licensing and budget
Own infrastructure budget across GCP, AWS and related tooling; forecast, track and explain variances
Build cost visibility per environment, customer and product
Set cost targets and manage vendor and licensing relationships
Own platform reliability, SLOs, on-call, deployments, alerts, support requests, incident response and blameless reviews
Partner with the Chief Information Officer and Chief Privacy and Security Officer on SOC 2 controls tracked in Drata
Own technical controls for access, secrets, CI and audit evidence

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years in DevOps, site reliability or platform engineering, including 3+ years managing engineers
Experience setting technical direction and priorities for a platform or infrastructure team, and managing senior engineers
Production experience with Kubernetes, Terraform and a CI system on GCP or AWS, and the hands-on skill to review and contribute to that work
Direct accountability for a cloud budget, with examples of cost reductions delivered and how they were measured
Experience improving developer productivity, with metrics to show it
Track record of automating repetitive operational work to give a small team leverage
Experience with SOC 2 or a comparable control framework
Comfort working with health or genomic data where access rules are strict and audited
Strong communication, including explaining technical trade-offs and costs to non-technical leaders
Ease working across global time zones
Concourse CI experience (nice to have, not a requirement)
Experience running many environments from one platform (nice to have)
Experience using AI and automation to multiply output, including guardrails for agent access (nice to have)
Experience building cost allocation or showback models, or internal developer platforms (nice to have)
Familiarity with Java services built on Spring Boot, GA4GH standards or WDL workflow engines (nice to have)
Must be eligible to work in Canada
Offers are conditional upon a successful background check, as permitted by law

Benefits

Comp & perks

Remote friendly, with flexible hours and the opportunity to work on-site at our Toronto office
Comprehensive health benefits: medical, dental and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Three weeks vacation
Unlimited sick days
Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
One-time remote office set-up stipend
Career development and learning support
Opportunity to participate in DNAstack's Employee Stock Option Program
Opportunity to contribute to open science and global data-sharing efforts