Adastra is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing team focused on building scalable, secure, and high-performance data and machine learning platforms in the cloud.

In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams—including Cloud Engineering, Data Engineering, and Product Management—to architect and implement end-to-end cloud solutions primarily on AWS. You'll play a key role in designing complex ETL/ELT pipelines, enabling ML operations, and leading infrastructure automation using modern DevOps practices. If you're passionate about cloud technologies, data infrastructure, and mentoring others while working on impactful, enterprise-scale systems, we’d love to hear from you.

Location: GTA, ON

Status: Contract; 6 months with potential for extension

Workplace Type: Remote

Responsibilities:

• Working with team of Cloud Engineers focused on designing and building robust infrastructure on AWS
• Working with Development teams to understand technical requirements and then design and provision AWS Platform services required to support complex ETL/ELT data pipelines as well as Machine learning solutions
• Working with Product Managers to develop tools to support experimentation, ML model training and production operations
• Solid understanding of provisioning end-to-end Data solution enabled with DevOps
• Architect scalable low-latency systems, implement capacity planning framework & design data pipelines & required disaster recovery services
• Promote software development best-practices and conduct rigorous code reviews, rigorously identify and solve technical challenges
• Balance and prioritize projects to maximize efficiency and ensure company objectives are achieved
• Lead and mentor a team of talented engineers within the backend distributed systems team, make a positive impact on the team's productivity and growth

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience:

• Around 7+ years of experience as a Cloud Infrastructure engineer in Data and Data warehousing technologies
• Around 10+ relevant experience and post-secondary degree in related field of study or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Good decision-making and problem-solving skill
• Strong knowledge on Data Lake, Data Warehousing, Distributed systems and Data infrastructure concepts
• Solid experience with ML infrastructure and ML DevOps
• Experience in migrating data from on-prem Hadoop to AWS/Azure Cloud
• Understanding of core AWS & Azure services & architecture best practices
• Hands-on experience in different domains, like database architecture, business intelligence, machine learning, advanced analytics, big data, etc.
• Solid experience creating CI/CD pipelines to manage infrastructure deployment and code deployment
• Excellent communication skills for providing specialized consulting, analytical and technical support to internal team members and external CIO Business teams
• Should have sound experience provisioning following Cloud Services as well as their design and architecture components:
• CDK & TypeScript, NodeJS, Python, Terraform
• Code pipeline, CICD, Build/Deploy
• AWS EMR, Glue, Managed Airflow, Lakeformation, Athena, S3, ELK / OpenSearch
• RDS, Redshift, DocumentDB, Neptune & Data Migration Service
• EC2, S3, IAM, Secrets Manager, System Manager, Cloudwatch
• AWS Sagemaker Studio (ML), Docker & Containers
• AWS QuickSight and Power BI reporting tool
• Azure services for Data & Data warehousing will be a plus

About Adastra

For more than 25 years, Adastra Corporation has been hyper-focused on data and the infrastructures to support it. We are an international consulting company working with businesses and IT Leaders to extract value through data and analytic solutions in the domains of Cloud, Data Management, Analytics, AI and ML, Governance, Hyper Automation, and Enterprise Application Development. Our team of experts, combined with our worldclass data management platform, helps provide trusted insights, establish frameworks, enforce best practices, and streamline processes for around-the-clock global coverage. Adastra has a proven track record of helping organizations of all sizes – from SMEs to Fortune 1000s – achieve their data transformation goals, whether that be accelerating innovation, improving operational excellence, or creating unforgettable customer experiences.

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