24 hours ago
Remote, Canada or Montréal, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and own a Backstage-based internal developer platform, service catalog, and software templates that scaffold production-ready services.
- Define commit-to-production workflows using pipeline templates, environment promotion, progressive delivery, Kubernetes GitOps, Argo CD, Helm, Kustomize, and Azure DevOps.
- Encode quality gates, security scanning, policy checks, and supply-chain standards in templates and pipelines.
- Define how AI agents and assistants operate in the software development lifecycle, including access controls, review, traceability, approval, and governance.
- Build secure agent-facing interfaces such as MCP servers for exposing catalogs, pipelines, and infrastructure to AI agents.
- Evolve cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure and expand self-service provisioning with Terraform, declarative APIs, and pull requests.
- Improve local development, preview environments, test feedback time, pipeline duration, observability, and developer adoption.
- Gather developer feedback, document solutions, and maintain tested, versioned, and maintainable platform code.
Requirements
- At least 8 to 10 years of experience in platform, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering with substantial software development experience.
- Ability to write and maintain production code; Flinks uses C#, Go, and Python, though any relevant programming language is accepted.
- Hands-on Backstage experience covering catalogs, software templates, TechDocs, and plugins, or equivalent internal developer portal experience.
- Experience with Kubernetes, GitOps using Argo CD or Flux, and Terraform in a major cloud environment.
- Experience with CI/CD and release engineering, including pipeline templates, environment promotion, safe rollouts, and rollbacks.
- Regular use of AI coding tools and a considered perspective on their role in the software development lifecycle.
- Working knowledge of observability concepts including traces, metrics, logs, and SLOs.
- Ability to lead initiatives and build from scratch with minimal direction while remaining hands-on.
- Preferred qualifications include custom Backstage plugin development, Backstage at scale, MCP servers, agent tooling, LLM integration, AI-generated code governance, OPA, Kyverno, SBOMs, artifact signing, DORA metrics, developer satisfaction measurement, ephemeral environments, and regulated or financial-services delivery experience.
Benefits
- Remote, full-time position based in Montreal, Canada.
- Greenfield ownership of the platform’s golden path and broad impact across every Flinks engineering team.
- High-visibility opportunity focused on AI-enabled software delivery in a regulated financial environment.
- Interview process includes an introductory call, hiring manager conversation, and one-hour technical interview.