Platform Architect (Cloud & Agentic Systems) - Contract

Platform Architect

Audi Red is a groundbreaking partnership between Audi, the leader in premium automotive innovation and BIMM Management Group— a digital technology agency. As Audi's flagship technology hub in North America, and aspiring to global recognition, Audi Red is dedicated to spearheading advancements in Audi's digital experience ecosystem. Our mission is to merge excellence in innovation, design, and delivery, leveraging our strong partnership foundation to bridge agency creativity with product excellence, thus enhancing customer experience and service design through cutting-edge technological solutions.

We are seeking a Platform Architect on contract until December 24th, 2026 to help design and evolve Audi RED's internal cloud platform, DevOps practices, and agentic (AI-driven) toolchain. This role focuses on building scalable, secure, and observable systems on AWS, while enabling engineering teams to leverage modern infrastructure and AI capabilities effectively. This role is highly hands-on and focused on platform development, system design, and internal enablement, rather than client delivery. This role focuses on building systems and platforms around existing AI/LLM capabilities, rather than developing or training models.

We are open to remote candidates across Canada. You will be required to work EST hours. Candidates local to Toronto will be prioritized and asked to join us in office!

This is an existing vacancy, not a made-up role — this one's already got a desk waiting.

Core Focus Areas

• Cloud Platform (AWS)
• DevOps & Infrastructure Automation
• Security & Governance
• Observability
• Agentic Systems & Toolchain (LLMs, MCP, workflows)

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve cloud-native platform architecture on AWS
• Define and implement DevOps standards, including CI/CD, release strategies, and automation
• Lead adoption of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation)
• Establish observability and APM standards (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.)
• Design and enforce secure-by-default architectures (IAM, networking, secrets management)
• Drive reliability and scalability across distributed systems
• Design and build the internal agentic platform
• Implement Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar patterns
• Design agent orchestration patterns (multi-step workflows, tool calling)
• Implement RAG systems using internal data sources
• Establish best practices for prompt design and evaluation
• Build guardrails and safety mechanisms for AI systems
• Integrate agent workflows into internal services and APIs
• Establish end-to-end observability across platform and agent systems
• Optimize performance and cost across AWS and LLM usage

Requirements

• Strong experience designing cloud-native systems on AWS
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps tooling
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code
• Strong understanding of cloud security (IAM, networking, secrets management)
• Experience operating distributed systems in production
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS)
• Familiarity with agentic workflows and orchestration patterns
• Understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• Experience with RAG or search-based systems
• Ability to design fault-tolerant systems

Nice to Have

• AWS certifications
• Experience building internal developer platforms
• Familiarity with vector databases or retrieval systems
• Experience with LLM observability tooling
• Experience with SRE practices
• Exposure to policy-as-code or security automation tools
• Experience optimizing LLM usage (cost, latency, caching)

What's in it for you?

• Work Life Balance: Additional shutdowns around holidays to allow us to reset and recharge so we come back better for our customers.
• Culture: We're passionate about working collaboratively, bonding through team events, and most importantly having fun.
• We're remote first, but love connecting and collaborating in-office. If you are an in-office creature, enjoy our beautiful shared office space in the heart of Downtown Toronto.

Audi RED is committed to providing an environment that is inclusive and accessible. We are an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without discrimination. Please let us know if accommodation for the recruitment/interview process is required and we will work with you to make sure your needs are met. Compensation This role has an hourly range of $58.00 to $73.00 CAD. Base pay offered may vary depending on factors including your city of residence, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience identified through the interview process. In addition to base salary, we offer comprehensive benefits, paid vacation and additional benefits designed to support our team as they grow with us. AI In Recruitment While we are exploring ways to best utilize AI in our hiring processes, Audi RED currently does not use AI-enabled tools in our hiring process. All candidates are screened by humans, and approved by humans.