Manager, Platform Engineering

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About the role

  • Manager, Platform Engineering leading the infrastructure team at KOHO for better financial services. Ensuring reliable production operations and developing cloud strategies for growth.

Responsibilities

  • Empower engineering teams to build, ship, and operate products faster and more reliably through world-class platform infrastructure.
  • Lead critical infrastructure & reliability initiatives: Drive cloud infrastructure architecture, disaster recovery capabilities, high-availability systems design, and compliance-ready infrastructure for a regulated financial services environment.
  • Build and lead a high-performing platform team: Manage a team of cloud infrastructure engineers through complex technical challenges while creating clear career growth paths and maintaining a culture of continuous learning and operational excellence.
  • Own production operations & site reliability: Ensure exceptional availability and reliability of production systems through proactive monitoring, incident response, performance optimization, and cost efficiency.
  • Enable security & regulatory compliance: Implement and maintain infrastructure for industry security standards and regulatory requirements while managing vulnerability remediation and access controls in partnership with our Cyber Security team.
  • Drive platform strategy & innovation: Define the technical roadmap for cloud infrastructure, Cloud Infra CI/CD, container orchestration, Infrastructure as Code, and developer infra tooling while leveraging AI and automation to reduce operational toil.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles with hands-on experience building and operating cloud infrastructure (AWS or equivalent, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloud Infra CI/CD) in production environments at scale
  • Experience managing engineering teams (4-6+ people), with demonstrated success coaching engineers, managing performance, driving team delivery, and building inclusive high-trust team cultures
  • Excel at taking high-level business objectives and translating them into actionable technical strategies
  • Define technical roadmaps and improve team processes, then dive deep to unblock critical production issues or guide complex implementations
  • Translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders, write clear documentation, and build strong cross-functional relationships
  • Understand how infrastructure decisions cascade through developer velocity, product delivery, costs, security, and business outcomes.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation & equity
  • Generous vacation + Wellness days + Flex Days + holiday closure
  • Remote-first environment + coworking support + yearly all hands retreat
  • Access to coaching & growth programs
  • Parental top-up & leave policies
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Power-up budgets for books, home office setup, phone & internet, AI tools, and professional development

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$160,000 - CA$196,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSCloudCyber SecurityKubernetesTerraform

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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