Senior Platform Engineer (AWS)

Location: Canada; Remote

Company

hirify.global is building an engineering platform that supports scalable infrastructure, security, CI/CD, and reliability across product teams.

What you will do

• Own and execute the AWS account split across production, staging, and development environments.
• Lead the Aurora DB production migration and manage ECS Fargate, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, Step Functions, and ALB infrastructure.
• Own Terraform-based infrastructure as code and improve IAM, S3 security, AWS Config, Security Hub, SOC 2 Type 2 readiness, and penetration-test coordination.
• Improve GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, deployment velocity, test reliability, PR stack environments, and Docker Compose-based local development.
• Build CloudWatch dashboards, lead post-incident reviews, and maintain runbook coverage for incidents.
• Partner with product teams to distribute platform work through regular sprint allocations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years focused on infrastructure and platform engineering.
• Deep AWS expertise with ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, and account architecture.
• Terraform proficiency and experience writing infrastructure as code.
• Strong CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines, and environment management.
• Security-minded approach to hardening systems without creating friction for product engineers.
• Experience with observability tooling such as CloudWatch, Datadog, or equivalent.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time remote work from Canada.
• Competitive salary.
• Medical coverage.
• Access to educational resources and courses.