Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Staff Infrastructure Engineer 

Remote (Canada)

About the Opportunity

We're looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to join our Infrastructure team as a technical leader and key contributor. Reporting to the Manager of Cloud Infrastructure, you'll serve as the senior technical voice on the team—owning complex infrastructure initiatives, mentoring team members, and helping shape our platform's technical direction.

This is a hands-on technical role with leadership responsibilities. You'll split your time between building and improving our cloud infrastructure and providing technical guidance across the team and broader engineering organization. When the Manager is focused on stakeholder discussions or roadmap planning, you'll be the go-to person for technical decisions and escalations.

Our platform powers genomics and laboratory workflows for customers in highly regulated environments. You'll work with modern infrastructure tooling (HashiCorp stack, AWS, Kubernetes patterns) while ensuring we meet the reliability, security, and compliance requirements our customers depend on.

What You'll Be Doing

Technical Leadership (30%)

• Serve as the technical escalation point for the infrastructure team
• Lead architecture decisions for major infrastructure initiatives
• Define and drive technical standards, best practices, and documentation
• Represent the infrastructure team in cross-functional technical discussions
• Conduct design reviews and provide guidance on implementation approaches
• Drive incident response and lead postmortems for significant events
  

Hands-On Engineering (50%)

• Design, build, and maintain highly-available distributed infrastructure on AWS
• Develop and improve infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
• Manage container orchestration and service mesh (Nomad, Consul)
• Implement and maintain secrets management and security controls (Vault)
• Build automation, tooling, and self-service capabilities for the engineering team
• Optimize observability, monitoring, and alerting (Datadog)
• Support production systems and participate in on-call rotation
  

Mentorship & Team Development (20%)

• Mentor infrastructure engineers, providing technical guidance and career support
• Conduct code reviews and pair programming sessions
• Help grow team capabilities through knowledge sharing and documentation
• Contribute to hiring—participate in interviews, help define technical assessments
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence
  

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, SRE, or DevOps engineering
• Deep expertise with cloud infrastructure (AWS strongly preferred)
• Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform required)
• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Nomad, or similar)
• Experience with service mesh and service discovery (Consul, Istio, or similar)
• Experience with secrets management (Vault, Secrets Manager, or similar)
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and distributed systems
• Track record of leading technical initiatives from design through production
• Strong communication skills—ability to explain technical concepts to varied audiences
• Mentorship experience—demonstrated ability to grow other engineers

Preferred

• Experience with HashiCorp tooling (Terraform, Nomad, Consul)
• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated industries
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC2, ISO 27001)
• Experience with observability platforms (Datadog, Grafana)
• Experience supporting Java/Spring applications
• Background in genomics, bioinformatics, or laboratory systems
  

What Success Looks Like

First 30 days

• Complete onboarding and gain access to all systems
• Understand current infrastructure architecture and operational processes
• Build relationships with team members and key stakeholders
• Shadow on-call and incident response processes
  

First 90 days

• Take ownership of at least one significant infrastructure component
• Contribute to ongoing projects and operational work
• Begin providing technical guidance and code reviews
• Join on-call rotation
• Identify 2-3 areas for improvement and propose solutions
  

First 6 months

• Lead a major infrastructure initiative from design to production
• Establish yourself as the technical escalation point for the team
• Actively mentor at least one team member
• Contribute to technical standards and documentation
• Demonstrate measurable impact on reliability, efficiency, or developer experience
  

First year

• Own the technical roadmap for a significant infrastructure domain
• Drive adoption of improvements across the engineering organization
• Be recognized as a go-to technical expert for infrastructure decisions
• Help hire and onboard new team members
• Contribute to broader company technical strategy

Location

Victoria, British Columbia (Remote)

Department

Infrastructure Team

Employment Type

Employee

Minimum Experience

Experienced

Compensation

140,000 - $174,000