Jobs in Winnipeg, Canada

About the role

The team at Laivly is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to help design, operate, and continuously improve the cloud infrastructure behind our technology. As Senior Cloud Engineer, you’ll be a senior individual contributor focused on building secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient AWS environments. You’ll combine deep hands-on cloud expertise with a reliability mindset, helping us strengthen our infrastructure, anticipate failure, improve observability, and turn operational challenges into lasting improvements. Working closely with our Architecture, IT Operations, Information Security, and Engineering teams, you’ll have the opportunity to influence how our cloud environment evolves as Laivly continues to scale. This position is remote and open to candidates within Canada. As Senior Cloud Engineer, you will…

What you'll bring

• 5+ years of progressive hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud operations, systems engineering, or platform engineering, with significant hands-on experience operating production AWS environments.
• Strong AWS expertise across IAM, VPC networking, compute, storage, managed databases, load balancing, DNS, monitoring, and backup/disaster-recovery services.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code
• Experience applying reliability engineering practices, including SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, observability, incident command, root-cause analysis, post-incident learning, and resilience testing.
• Strong cloud networking and security knowledge, including DNS, routing, connectivity, security groups/firewalls, identity federation, encryption, secrets, and least-privilege access.
• Experience working with containers and Kubernetes/EKS, including cluster infrastructure, resource management, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in scripting or automation (for example Python, Bash, or PowerShell) and comfort using APIs and version control to manage infrastructure safely.
• Experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices, including tagging, rightsizing, reservations/savings plans, cost allocation, and capacity forecasting.
• Strong systems-thinking and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to communicate  technical concepts and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• An AWS certification such as Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, or Security Specialty is an asset.
• ideally Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation, including modular design, state management, code review, and policy guardrails.