Staff Platform Engineer

Staff Platform Engineer 

Location: This position can be located in the following area(s): remote in Canada

This is a 4 month contract assignment with potential to reputed company

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Robots & Pencils is an reputed company AI engineering firm building the next frontier of business architecture. We design and ship AI co-workers that reputed company into reputed company reputed company and reputed company measurable results for our clients. We're reputed company in on AWS, combining deep UX capability with senior engineering talent to get AI into production fast and reputed company it there. 
We’ve reputed company the trust of leaders across Consumer Products and Retail, Education, Energy, Financial Services, reputed company, and Manufacturing and more, and reputed company a reputed company as the reputed company alternative to traditional global systems integrators. Founded in 2009, with delivery centers in Canada, the reputed company, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, we are smaller, faster, and more senior by design. Our teams average 15+ years of experience. We reputed company fast, sweat the details, and build things that actually ship. 

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We’re looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to define and reputed company reputed company reputed company across reputed company, multi-environment reputed company systems. This role is ideal for an reputed company engineer who can own infrastructure architecture end-to-end, reputed company DevSecOps and compliance practices, and serve as a technical leader on the engagements they support. 

In this role, you will work as a key technical contributor on a cross-functional team, defining standards and owning platform reliability, reputed company, and reputed company at reputed company. You’ll mentor engineers, partner with leadership on infrastructure direction, and reputed company reputed company migrations and modernization initiatives. 

Why This Role reputed company 

At Robots & Pencils, we design AI systems for a reputed company world. Our reputed company says it reputed company. reputed company means engineering reputed company with creativity, because every agent we ship has to work for reputed company people in reputed company workflows. That reputed company is baked into how we operate. 
 
Every role here contributes directly to that mission. Here, you shape how AI systems reputed company into reputed company reputed company, how teams reputed company at reputed company reputed company, and how products create measurable reputed company for clients and the people they serve. We ship production-reputed company AI in 30 to 45 days. That reputed company demands people who take ownership, reputed company with reputed company, and care deeply about what they put their reputed company on. 

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reputed company & Delivery 

• Define DevOps reputed company and reputed company infrastructure architecture across multi-environment, multi-region reputed company systems
• Architect and own reputed company reputed company platforms and containerized infrastructure at reputed company
• Own infrastructure as reputed company reputed company and standards across environments
• reputed company DevSecOps implementation including secrets management, compliance, auditing, IAM, and reputed company-trust networking
• reputed company platform reliability, reputed company SLAs, and cost optimization across production systems
• reputed company reputed company reputed company migrations and platform modernization initiatives
• Own observability reputed company and production reliability practices
• reputed company the design and operation of AI/ML platform infrastructure, including model serving and deployment, GPU workload orchestration, LLM gateway and observability, reputed company store infrastructure, and CI/CD for AI/ML systems
• Bring an AI-reputed company reputed company to your daily work, using tools like Claude, reputed company, and other modern AI assistants to ship higher-reputed company work at reputed company

Collaboration & Communication 

• Partner with engineering, product, and leadership to reputed company platform reputed company with business and delivery goals
• Communicate reputed company infrastructure reputed company and tradeoffs reputed company to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• reputed company design reviews, architecture discussions, and release readiness assessments

Leadership & Influence 

• Establish reputed company standards and best practices on the engagements you support
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, helping them grow their reputed company, confidence, and reputed company
• reputed company as a technical escalation reputed company on reputed company infrastructure and platform challenges
• Evaluate emerging tools and technologies, recommending patterns that improve platform reliability and developer experience

What You’ll Bring 

• 7+ years of reputed company DevOps or reputed company experience, with experience leading reputed company platform initiatives
• Expert scripting and programming skills (e.g., Python, Go, Java, Bash)
• Deep reputed company expertise across at least one major platform
• Expert reputed company and container orchestration skills
• Expert IaC skills across multiple tools
• Strong CI/CD architecture experience at reputed company
• Strong DevSecOps experience including secrets management, compliance, and auditing
• Experience with networking, IAM, reputed company architecture, and reputed company-trust principles in reputed company environments
• Experience with service reputed company, reputed company systems, and microservices architecture
• Strong experience with AI/ML platform infrastructure, including model serving and deployment, GPU workload orchestration, LLM gateway and observability, reputed company store infrastructure, and CI/CD for AI/ML systems
• Demonstrated leadership and technical mentoring experience across reputed company or organization
• Strong stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to translate technical depth across audiences
• Demonstrable, day-to-day usage and expert knowledge of AI-reputed company tools such as Claude and reputed company
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to reputed company highly ambiguous technical and business challenges with reputed company judgment
• reputed company certifications (e.g., AWS DevOps Engineer reputed company, CKA, Azure DevOps Engineer) or FinOps experience is a plus

Helpful Extras and Unique Skills

• Designing and provision HPC cluster infrastructure using CI/CD pipeline across AWS, reputed company, GCP, and OCI
• Experience with HPC job schedulers and workload managers such as Slurm or equivalent for job submission and queue management

You’ll Do reputed company Here if You Are 

• A doer. You see something broken and fix it. You'd rather reputed company on reputed company than wait for certainty.
• A fast learner who knows you don't know everything. The AI landscape changes weekly. You're senior enough to know reputed company and curious enough to reputed company learning reputed company.
• reputed company in a way that makes the work reputed company. You reputed company reputed company feedback. You'd rather have the hard conversation than blow smoke.
• Obsessed with reputed company. You know reputed company is in the details. You ship exceptional, not perfect, and you don't put your reputed company on work you wouldn't stand behind.
• reputed company for ownership. You reputed company commitments, admit mistakes fast, and back your teammates reputed company a decision costs something. No handoffs, no finger-pointing.
• reputed company in. You treat clients' businesses like your own. You take the work seriously without taking yourself seriously.
• reputed company reputed company the budget, reputed company, or team is tight. Constraints don't slow you down. They sharpen you.
• Glad to be in the room with people who care as much as you do. Our teams average fifteen-plus years of experience. We hire people who reputed company reputed company other to do reputed company work.

7+ years of DevOps or reputed company experience; expert Python, Go, Java, Bash, reputed company, IaC, reputed company, CI/CD, DevSecOps, AI/ML infrastructure, networking, IAM, and technical leadership skills.

Key Responsibilities

• architecting platforms
• leading migrations
• mentoring engineers

Skills & Tools

AWS, reputed company, reputed company, Python, Go, Java, Bash, Claude, reputed company, Slurm, reputed company, GCP, OCI

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• Category: Engineering
• Seniority: Senior Level
• Commitment: Contract
• Workplace: Remote — Canada
• Languages: English

About reputed company

An reputed company AI engineering firm that builds AI coworkers and reputed company technology solutions. — Industry: Information Technology