Cloud Platform Developer (Contract)

Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Employment Type: Contractor Workplace Type: Hybrid

About our Vancouver Office

Located in the heart of downtown Vancouver, between the Pacific Ocean and the Coast Mountains, Teck’s Corporate Office sits in one of Canada’s most culturally diverse cities.

Surrounded by world-renowned nature and globally inspired cuisine, the office brings together many of Teck’s corporate functions - all working toward Teck’s purpose of providing the essential resources the world relies on.

Role Overview

are seeking a senior Platform Developer to help compose and evolve a modern cloud-native platform with a strong focus on developer experience, reliability, and automation. In this role, you will operate as a senior individual contributor who brings a strong sense of accountability and craftsmanship to everything you build. You will work across Kubernetes, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code to deliver platform capabilities while embedding observability, governance, resilience, and cost efficiency by default. You will contribute to core systems such as CI/CD, automation frameworks, and control-plane services that enable product teams to ship faster and safer. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone who thrives in a fast paced environment, takes ownership for outcomes, and cares deeply about the long-term quality and operability of what they build.

This is an initial 12-month contract to start with strong possibility of extension based on program needs.

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Responsibilities

- Be a courageous safety leader, adhere to and sponsor safety and environmental rules and procedures.

- Serve as a senior-level individual contributor on the Platform team, demonstrating outstanding technical proficiency across multiple areas of cloud-native platform development and support.

- Implement observability, governance, and automation frameworks to ensure performance, reliability, security, and compliance.

- Drive guidelines for GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and Kubernetes automation.

- Ensure systems are resilient, cost-efficient, and optimized for performance, while delivering pragmatic, reliable, and maintainable platform capabilities.

- Build and support CI/CD pipelines to ensure our developers have a detailed and resilient SDLC.

- Contribute to technical direction through design reviews, RFCs, and mentoring.

- Participate in operational readiness, incident review, and continuous improvement of the platform.

Qualifications

- 5+ years of experience in platform, cloud infrastructure or SRE roles.

- Strong programming experience in Python, Go or C#, preferably including building controllers, operators, or automation systems.

- Strong understanding of Kubernetes, controller-runtime, and Crossplane composition frameworks.

- Experience with ArgoCD, Helm, and IaC (Terraform or Crossplane).

- Hands-on experience with GitOps or related experience and workflows dedicated to maintaining system consistency.

- Experience supporting or building data infrastructure platforms (e.g., MLOps, ETL pipelines, streaming or batch systems).

- Strong grounding in cost efficiency, performance profiling, and system-level debugging.

- Proven track record to take initiative, work autonomously, and drive projects to successful completion.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a willingness to challenge the status quo and contribute innovative ideas.

Nice To Have

- Contributions to CNCF open-source projects (Kubernetes, Crossplane, ArgoCD, Prometheus, etc).

- Deep expertise in Kubernetes API machinery, CRDs, and control plane development.

- Experience running platforms on a major cloud provider (Azure, AWS, or GCP).

- Familiarity with Kubernetes scheduling and projects like Karpenter.

- Proven grasp of observability and distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana).

- Strong technical writing and documentation skills.

- BSc or equivalent experience. or MSc in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or transferrable practical experience is preferred.

Why Teck

At Teck, your work matters—to the world, to our communities and to your future.

As a leading Canadian resource company, we focus on responsibly providing the metals essential for global development and the energy transition while caring for the people, communities and land that we love. We do this guided by our values that, together, form The Teck Way. At Teck, you’ll find purpose-driven work, a culture of respect and inclusion, and the opportunity to grow your career while helping build a better world.

Apply with us

Take the next step in your career by applying for the Cloud Platform Developer (Contract) role. We review applications on a rolling basis and encourage you to apply, even if your background doesn’t match every requirement. We value diversity and are committed to an inclusive, barrier-free hiring process. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.

Requisition ID: 53389 | Job Category: Technology | Employment Type: Contractor | Location: Vancouver | Workplace Type: #LI - Hybrid