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Salary: CAD 229,000 - 300,000 / annual
Motive empowers organizations running physical operations with a unified platform for safety, operations, and finance management. The company serves nearly 100,000 customers across transportation, logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food & beverage, retail, and public sector.
You will lead the Core Infrastructure and Operations Engineering organization, managing a multi-functional team spanning SRE, Operations, Data & AI Platform, and Database Engineering. You own the cloud platform, run infrastructure as a product, and drive enterprise-grade reliability for mission-critical systems. You'll operate at the executive level, leading during critical incidents and partnering with C-suite leadership.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead and scale a high-performing engineering team responsible for core platform systems used across the company
- Define and drive multi-quarter platform initiatives that improve system reliability and product leverage
- Partner closely with product and engineering leaders to evolve the platform as a product, balancing long-term architecture with near-term business needs
- Take ambiguous, high-impact problem areas (system scalability, reliability, platform abstractions) and turn them into clear execution plans
- Drive alignment across multiple teams working on complex, interdependent systems including internal platforms, infrastructure, and cloud governance
- Raise the bar on engineering quality, operational excellence, and execution across the platform organization
- Manage escalations with CEO-level visibility and clear communication
Requirements:
- 12+ years in software/infrastructure engineering, including 5+ years leading Infra/SRE/ops organizations and managing managers, with strong systems architecture sense
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Ability to collaborate and work effectively cross-functionally with strong ownership
- Deep experience with AWS at scale (VPC, IAM, multi-account, core services, observability, cost optimization)
- High AI fluency – able to evaluate, integrate, and govern LLM/AI platforms (AWS Bedrock, Anthropic/Claude, OpenAI) for engineering and ops
- Experience interfacing with vendors, partners, and cost governance
- Strong understanding of databases and data platforms (OLTP and analytics), Data and ML/AI infrastructure
- Proven record running high-reliability platforms (SLOs, incidents, on-call, postmortems); experience driving processes and programs to raise the bar on engineering excellence
- Track record of running infrastructure as a product (roadmaps, stakeholder comms, adoption)
Nice to have:
- Background in B2B SaaS or other high-reliability domains (payments, logistics, safety)
- Leadership of global, distributed teams across time zones
