Junior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Liferaft as a Junior Platform Engineer and contribute to the development and operation of our OSINT platform. This hybrid or fully remote (Canada) role involves supporting infrastructure, deployment tooling, monitoring, and platform automation. Collaborate with senior engineers to enhance system reliability, scalability, and security. This hands-on position is perfect for early-career professionals eager to expand their technical skills while supporting mission-critical services for global security teams. You will work on tasks such as maintaining infrastructure using Terraform, supporting code deployment tools, documenting platform systems, integrating CI/CD tooling, participating in monitoring and logging operations, and contributing to disaster recovery. Liferaft offers competitive compensation, investment in personal and professional growth, remote work flexibility, flexible time off, a yearly lifestyle subsidy, and a diverse and inclusive team culture.

Requirements

• 1–2 years of experience working with web technologies, ideally including LAMP-stack components
• Familiarity with AWS or GCP cloud environments
• Exposure to tools like Jenkins, or similar CI/CD systems
• Interest in cloud-native applications, infrastructure as code, and operational tooling
• Willingness to learn and grow within a supportive, fast-paced technical environment

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Director of Platform Engineering, senior team members, and the broader engineering organization to support platform reliability and efficiency
• Assist in maintaining and improving infrastructure using Terraform and automation tools to manage our AWS and GCP environments
• Support development teams by helping maintain tools that enable reliable and secure code deployment
• Contribute to documenting platform systems and processes for internal engineering use
• Help integrate and maintain CI/CD tooling and dependency scanning processes
• Participate in monitoring and logging operations using Graylog, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Assist with maintaining core platform uptime and responding to incidents under supervision
• Follow guidance to implement basic security best practices and learn how platform security is managed
• Contribute to disaster recovery and backup activities as part of the team
• Work on small platform improvement tasks with mentorship and feedback from senior engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• Some knowledge of containers such as Docker or Kubernetes is an asset
• Experience with Elasticsearch or Opensearch is an asset

Benefits

• Competitive compensation plan & benefits
• Investment in personal and professional growth
• Remote work/office space with flexible hours
• Flexible time off – Take a minimum of 15 days/year with no cap beyond!
• $750 Yearly Lifestyle Subsidy