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- Employment type
- Contract
- Experience level
- Lead · 10+ years
- Apply by
- Oct 28, 2026
- Posting language
- English
- Working hours
- 40 hours per week
- Office presence
- 4 days per week
- Seniority
- Not Applicable
- Application method
- Direct apply is available
Job summary
Lead and grow a distributed engineering team while overseeing platform engineering and cloud infrastructure. Guide the development and operation of platform tooling, automation, CI/CD, Kubernetes environments, and observability systems.
Job details
Location: Brampton, ON L6Y 5S - 4 days onsite per week Job Description: DevOps Requirements: Platform engineering with strong cloud infrastructure fundamentals — Google Cloud Platform (GKE, Networking, Compute, Storage, IAM/WIF, BigQuery, Cloud Logging). Development proficiency in Golang and Python — for platform tooling, automation, and microservices. GitLab — CI/CD pipelines, repo administration at scale. Terraform — IaC authoring and management across many projects/teams. Kubernetes — hands-on operational and architectural depth (GitOps/ArgoCD, RBAC, custom controllers). Team handling — proven experience managing and growing a distributed engineering team. Experience with OpenTelemetry collector fleet management & OpenTelemetry in general. Observability stack experience (Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, PagerDuty) Exposure to AIOps/FinOps practices. Experience with Backstage or other internal developer platforms. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. NLB is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.
What you’ll do
Lead and grow a distributed engineering team while overseeing platform engineering and cloud infrastructure. Guide the development and operation of platform tooling, automation, CI/CD, Kubernetes environments, and observability systems.
Requirements
Requires strong Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes expertise, proficiency in Golang and Python, and experience with GitLab and Terraform at scale. The role also calls for distributed team leadership, OpenTelemetry and observability experience, and exposure to AIOps, FinOps, and internal developer platforms.
Listed skills
- Kubernetes · Preferred
- Go · Preferred
- Terraform · Preferred
- Python · Preferred
Other relevant skills
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- Google Cloud Platform
- Golang
- Python
- GitLab
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Platform Engineering
- Team Management
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- VictoriaMetrics
- Grafana
- PagerDuty
- Argo CD
- GitOps
- Backstage
Job areas
- Technology
- Software
- Management & Leadership
- Engineering