Manager, Software Engineering (Infra Foundations)
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AffirmFinancial Technology
Remote CanadaFull-TimeManager
SalaryCAN base pay range per year: $181,000 - $241,000 CAD.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, with 2+ years of engineering management experience
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonKotlinGoTerraformAnsible
Requirements
- 7+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience.
- 2+ years of engineering management experience.
- Strong technical background in cloud-native and infrastructure systems, specifically AWS.
- Experience owning or leading Infrastructure-as-Code practices using tools like Terraform or Spacelift.
- Experience building and operating infrastructure automation.
- Track record of operating services with a high reliability bar including monitoring, on-call, and incident response.
- Strong operational judgment with the ability to drive clarity and prioritization.
- Familiarity with least-privilege IAM models and access governance.
- Strong programming background with proficiency in Python, Go, or Kotlin.
- Strong communication and organizational leadership skills.
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the vision and multi-quarter roadmap, tying foundational investments to critical, business-impacting outcomes.
- Lead and mentor a team of infrastructure engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.
- Partner with engineering leadership and stakeholders to align Infra Foundations priorities with broader infrastructure, platform, and security goals.
- Own the reliability and safety of AWS account provisioning, core networking, and human IAM access.
- Drive the team's automation charter, delivering frameworks for provisioning and managing complex stacks using IaC rails like GitHub and Spacelift.
- Steward critical operational programs including quota management, AMI patch management, and configuration management.
- Establish and hold the operational bar for SLAs, alerting, incident response, and automated validation.
- Drive adoption of frameworks through self-service tooling, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
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