Cloud Engineering Lead

Meet the Smart Safety Company

At Safe Fleet our name says it all. We make fleet vehicles – and everyone in and around them – safer. Our fleet safety platform brings together best-in-class products, ground-breaking technology, and a 100-year history of fleet know-how and innovation to solve the world's biggest fleet safety problems.

Our core value is safety. Without safety first, efficiency and productivity are not possible. This is true for our products, our culture, and our relationship with our community. Our vision is to reduce preventable deaths and injuries in and around fleet vehicles with a goal of ZERO accidents.

We are re-defining what safety means for fleets of every type – from school buses to waste collection trucks, firefighting to utility vehicles, police cruisers to delivery vans.

Whether you work in our Charlotte plant to build life-saving stop arms for school buses, or design advanced camera vision products in our Vancouver office, forge valves and high-quality nozzles to fight fires, or dream up new ways to protect fleet operators in our Corporate HQ in Kansas City, you'll contribute to our goal to keep everyone safe.

We are a fast-growing manufacturing, service, and technology company with over 1700 employees in over 15 locations across Canada and the US. We're looking for motivated self-starters with innovative thinking to join our team and help us achieve our growth and performance goals. Sound like you?

Job Summary

As the Cloud Engineering Lead at Safe Fleet, you will be responsible for guiding a team of cloud engineers, ensuring cloud infrastructure is resilient, secure, cost‑efficient, and aligned with the needs of engineering and product teams. The role demands hands‑on expertise in Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, automation, observability, and requires close collaboration with over 100 developers across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a cloud engineering team responsible for the company's core infrastructure.
• Oversee day-to-day support of preproduction environments, ensuring stability and rapid issue resolution.
• Drive cloud infrastructure design based on Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices best practices.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to understand priorities and translate them into infrastructure solutions.
• Own team scrum ceremonies including planning, daily stand-ups, refinement, retrospectives, and reporting.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, designing reusable components and modules.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD systems using Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Review and modernize existing infrastructure, identifying opportunities for automation and improvement.
• Ensure best practices for monitoring, observability, and reliability using Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic, and Azure Monitor.
• Support migrations including on‑prem to cloud, Azure and AWS.
• Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, Platform, and FinOps to maintain operational excellence.
• Serve as the technical point of contact for engineering teams and senior leadership.

Salary: $120,000 to $135,000/yr + 15% Bonus

• Strong verbal and written English skills required.
• 5+ years of Cloud or DevOps Engineering experience with proven leadership or team‑lead responsibilities.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure (PaaS, IaaS) including networking, compute, storage, identity, and governance.
• Deep practical knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and containerized architectures.
• Strong Terraform experience including modules, workspaces, environment separation, state management, and Azure backends.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub, and automation scripting with PowerShell, Groovy, and Bash.
• Experience with monitoring systems including Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, and Azure Monitor.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases including MongoDB, CosmosDB, MySQL, and SQL Server.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex systems to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and drive initiatives to completion.
• Scrum sprint planning, backlog management, and team performance metrics.