Senior Platform Engineer building scalable backend and cloud infrastructure for ExaCare’s AI - powered post - acute care platform. Improving reliability, developer velocity, and healthcare admission workflows.
About the role
- Senior platform engineering lead shaping compute and virtualization strategy for BMO, a major bank. Driving modernization, architecture standards, automation and hybrid-cloud infrastructure transformation.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for enterprise compute and virtualization platforms, including strategic planning, architecture, engineering standards and lifecycle management
- Lead platform modernization initiatives, including infrastructure transformation, hypervisor strategy, hardware refresh programs, automation and cloud integration efforts
- Develop target-state platform architectures enabling scalability, resiliency, security and operational efficiency
- Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends and vendor roadmaps to guide platform investment decisions and long-term technology direction
- Define and maintain engineering standards, reference architectures, technical patterns and operational best practices
- Lead technical assessments, proof-of-concepts, platform evaluations and technology validation activities
- Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, application and security teams to align platform capabilities with enterprise requirements and business objectives
- Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code, automation, self-service capabilities and modern platform engineering practices
- Provide technical oversight and governance for major platform initiatives
- Prepare and deliver executive-level presentations covering technology strategies, risks, trade-offs, investment recommendations and modernization roadmaps
- Present solution architectures and technology recommendations to Architecture Review Boards, Design Review Committees and senior leadership forums
- Serve as a senior technical advisor on compute, virtualization and infrastructure technologies
- Mentor engineering teams and advance platform engineering capabilities, operational maturity and engineering excellence
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, systems architecture, or enterprise technology leadership roles
- Deep expertise in enterprise virtualization technologies, including VMware vSphere (required)
- Nutanix AHV and ecosystem technologies preferred
- Additional hypervisor platforms such as Hyper-V or KVM considered an asset
- Strong understanding of enterprise compute platforms, including Dell PowerEdge and/or HPE ProLiant infrastructure
- Experience with blade, rack and converged infrastructure architectures
- Proven experience leading large-scale infrastructure modernization and transformation programs
- Strong knowledge of x86 platform architecture, virtualization, clustering, high availability and disaster recovery technologies
- Experience designing and supporting hybrid cloud architectures and cloud-enabled operating models
- Experience evaluating, documenting and executing complex proof-of-concepts involving multiple stakeholders and technology vendors
- Experience developing technology strategies, roadmaps, standards and reference architectures
- Strong understanding of automation frameworks and Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python and GitOps methodologies
- Knowledge of platform engineering concepts, including self-service infrastructure, developer platforms, automation and operational excellence
- Experience working within large enterprise environments with formal architecture governance processes
- Excellent executive communication skills, with ability to translate technical complexity into business-focused recommendations
- Proven ability to influence strategic decisions and drive outcomes across teams without direct authority
- Experience supporting financial services, regulated industries or large-scale enterprise environments preferred
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and OpenShift preferred
- Experience integrating platform engineering practices with cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure solutions preferred
- Industry certifications such as VMware VCP/VCAP, Nutanix NCP, Azure, AWS, TOGAF or equivalent preferred
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Accident and life insurance
- Retirement savings plans
- Performance-based incentives
- Discretionary bonuses
- Other perks and rewards
- In-depth training and coaching
- Manager support
- Network-building opportunities
- Tools and resources to reach new milestones
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