Senior Cloud Platform Developer

AppDirect•Montreal, QC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

AppDirect is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Developer to join their Cloud Platform Team. This role involves scaling DevOps culture by making core cloud providers (AWS & Azure) accessible through a self-service Cloud Platform. The team treats the platform as a product, utilizing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Terraform and Ansible for automated pipelines, golden paths, and self-service workflows. The platform ensures a reliable and secure process (ISO 27001, PCI, SOC2 compliant) for the AppDirect Marketplace product, Devs.ai, and new acquisitions. The role will contribute to the AI-native era of platform engineering by building AI-assisted developer experiences, MCP-connected tooling, and policy, cost, and security guardrails enforced at provisioning time. The ideal candidate is energized by building self-service tools, has deep expertise in IaC and multi-cloud environments, and is comfortable writing production-ready Terraform modules and engaging with development teams. They should have hands-on experience hardening distributed systems, embedding security and cost guardrails, and be curious about AI-assisted tooling. Strong communication skills and the ability to work within a globally distributed team, along with mentoring peers, are essential.

Requirements

6+ years of professional experience in cloud infrastructure or platform development roles.
Expertise in Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Ansible (or comparable tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Salt), including writing complex automation and enabling others to adopt it.
Hands-on experience deploying and managing applications on AWS or Azure or GCP, with an understanding of performance optimization and cost management.
Demonstrated ability to independently secure and harden cloud infrastructure in compliance-driven environments.
Solid foundation in networking, operating systems, databases, and service configuration in a microservices context.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and source code management workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
Comprehensive experience managing DNS, domain lifecycles, and traffic routing across providers like Cloudflare (DNS, proxying, SSL/TLS, WAF, edge services), AWS Route53, or GoDaddy.
Strong written communication skills in English, because you'll coordinate technical decisions across globally distributed teams and present platform strategy to senior stakeholders.
A continuous improvement mindset, because this role requires you to treat usage metrics and support requests as feedback signals and act on them to make the platform measurably better over time.

Nice To Haves

Understanding of containerization platforms like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes is nice to have.
Strong experience with Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines and corresponding tools (e.g., ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions) is nice to have.
Experience in writing and testing code in at least one programming language (Java, JavaScript, Golang) is nice to have.
Comprehensive knowledge and debugging abilities for complex applications in Java, Node.js, or Golang, and ability to train others in debugging techniques is nice to have.
Experience building AI-native platform capabilities—Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, or AI-assisted incident response and runbooks is nice to have.
Knowledge or hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is nice to have.
Familiarity with FinOps practices and policy-as-code for cost and compliance guardrails is nice to have.

Responsibilities

Configure and extend multi-cloud, multi-region, multi-tenant infrastructure using Terraform Cloud and Ansible automation pipelines.
Design and maintain reusable IaC modules, and work directly with engineering teams to drive their adoption across the organization.
Build AI-assisted, guardrailed self-service workflows—including MCP servers and policy/cost validation—that make the secure path the default path.
Embed FinOps and security guardrails (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI) into the provisioning layer so compliance is validated at design time, not after deployment.
Support the onboarding of newly acquired teams onto the Cloud Platform so they can ship confidently from day one.
Use observability tools such as Datadog to diagnose issues in complex distributed systems and lead incident response when needed.
Participate in our DevOps Guild, training DevOps Champions on platform capabilities and maintaining documentation for both human users and AI agents.
Provide on-call support on rotation to maintain cloud infrastructure health.
Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge, including debugging techniques and platform best practices.
Administer and optimize Cloudflare services and DNS architecture across providers (Route53, Cloudflare, GoDaddy), supporting domain and edge-related migration projects with minimal downtime and robust rollback planning.