PlatformEngineer/Middleware Engineer/SRE

Job Description and Skill Matrix

Role:PlatformEngineer/Middleware Engineer/SRE

Location : Montreal, QC - Canada

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and integrate thirdparty and opensource technologies (e.g., Kafka, Redis, Airflow, Elastic Search, Graph DBs).

• Build POCs, test features, validate performance and prepare technologies for enterprise use.

• Deploy and operationalizeplatforms primarily on Open Shift Kubernetes cluster using Helm/ Kubernetes

• Develop reusable deployment patterns, automation scripts, and selfservice onboarding flows.

• Work closely with Infrastructure, Network, Storage, Security, Database and Kubernetesplatformteams.

• Build CI/CD pipelines for smooth deployment through gitops tools.

• Lead technical discussions and drive endtoend integration design.

• Ensureplatforms meet NFR standards for HA, DR, security, performance and observability.

• Build automation with Python and Shell scripting for deployments and operations.

• Instrumentplatforms for observability and integrate with enterprise monitoring stacks.

• Setting up alerts for metrics, logs using Observability tools.

Required Skills

• Strong in Linux, Storage and Networking background.

• Well versed with Python, Shell scripting and Ansible for automation.

• Strong handson experience on docker and Kubernetes (OpenShift)platform.

• Experience with Helm, Kubernetes, and GitOps tools (Flux, ArgoCD).

• Familiar with DNS, load balancing, routing, firewalls, TLS certificates and single sign-on authentication and authorization.

• Experience integrating and operationalizing middleware or distributedplatforms.

• Ability to evaluate technologies, run structured POCs, and drive solutions independently.

• Experience in configuring metrics, logs and traces using Observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Open Telemetry, Tempo.

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