Platform & Site Reliability Engineer

Platform & Site Reliability Engineer (Dev Ops/ AWS / SRE / Cloud)

The Opportunity

adidas NAM Tech is enhancing an enterprise web application and building AI, automation solutions that supports essential business processes across the NAM market.

We are seeking a highly skilled Platform & SRE Engineer who can provide the cloud, platform, DevOps, reliability, security, deployment, observability, and operational foundation that enables AI, automation, APIs, MCP services, and web enterprise applications to run reliably in production.

In this role, you will collaborate with a Solution Architect, Technical Lead, Product Owner, Software Developer, as well as quality engineering, security partners, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions.

Role Purpose

Design, implement, secure, automate, operate, and optimize AWS infrastructure, deployment platforms, monitoring capabilities, and operational processes supporting AI, automation, integration, and application solutions.

DevOps Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
• Automate deployments, environment provisioning, releases, and operational tasks.
• Manage container platforms including ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Establish release management standards and deployment governance.
• Improve deployment reliability, scalability, and recovery processes.

AWS Platform Responsibilities

• Design and manage AWS environments supporting enterprise applications and AI workloads.
• Administer VPCs, networking, routing, security groups, DNS, and connectivity patterns.
• Manage IAM roles, policies, secrets, keys, and least-privilege access controls.
• Support EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, and containerized workloads.
• Administer RDS PostgreSQL and related database services.
• Manage S3 storage, lifecycle policies, backups, and archival strategies.
• Configure Route53, load balancers, and high-availability services.
• Drive AWS cost optimization and usage visibility.
• Own backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity readiness.

Site Reliability Engineering Responsibilities

• Define and maintain monitoring, observability, alerting, dashboards, and operational metrics.
• Establish SLIs, SLOs, reliability targets, and operational health indicators.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvements.
• Improve system availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.
• Implement centralized logging, tracing, and telemetry capabilities.

Required Technical Skills

• AWS (VPC, IAM, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS PostgreSQL, S3, Route53, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch)
• Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Databricks ecosystem, Kafka, pipeline operations
• Linux administration and scripting
• Monitoring and observability platforms such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or OpenTelemetry
• Incident management and operational support
• Security, networking, and infrastructure best practices

Preferred Skills

• AI/ML platform support
• Azure or multi-cloud knowledge
• Node.js or Python familiarity
• MCP-based services and API ecosystems
• FinOps and cloud cost optimization
• Wholesale, retail, ecom, supply chain, or B2B platform experience

Required Experience

• 5+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• 3+ years managing AWS production environments.
• Experience supporting enterprise-grade applications and integrations.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD at scale.
• Experience with production monitoring, observability, and reliability engineering.

Success Measures (First 6 Months)

• All delivered solutions use standardized deployment pipelines.
• Infrastructure is provisioned through Infrastructure as Code.
• Production monitoring and alerting are implemented for all critical services.
• Availability, performance, and operational readiness improve across the solution portfolio.
• AWS costs are visible and managed proactively.
• Disaster recovery and backup procedures are documented and validated.

Ideal Candidate Profile

A hands-on platform engineer who combines AWS administration, DevOps automation, Site Reliability Engineering, observability, security, and cloud operations expertise. The candidate should be comfortable partnering with architects, AI engineers, developers, security teams, and operations teams to ensure solutions can move safely from development into reliable production environments.

adidas offers a robust and progressive range of benefits, including: health and dental benefits, including prescription drug coverage, out of country coverage, short and long-term disability, basic life and AD&D insurance, and an Employee & Family Assistance Program. Employees are able to enroll in adidas’ Retirement Savings Plan with employer match. Qualifying employees are eligible for our education assistance program and fitness reimbursement program.

Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance. We recognize the commitment of our employees by increasing vacation time with length of service. We also offer Service Awards & Service Time Off during milestone years, paid bereavement leave, and parental leave top-up to eligible employees.

Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English

At adidas we offer a Hybrid work policy which requires attendance in the office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday each week. For work requiring a high degree of collaboration or an in-person presentation, in-office attendance is required even on Friday. The working location of this position is Woodbridge, ON - Canada

The anticipated low and high end of the base pay range for this position is $107,000 - $117,000 CAD. Actual salary will be based on various factors, such as a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills & competencies, and proficiency for the role.

Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English. .

adidas is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including those with Disabilities, and will accommodate applicants’ needs, upon request, throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. If selected to participate in an interview, accommodations will be made available on request. Please inform the Recruiter of the accommodation(s) that you may require. Information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.