Junior Platform Engineer Job at Liferaft, Halifax, NS

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  • Liferaft
  • Halifax, NS

Job Description

Liferaft is looking for a motivated and curious Junior Platform Engineer to help support and enhance our OSINT platform. This role will be hybrid in Halifax, NS, or fully remote within Canada.

As a Junior Platform Engineer on the OSINT Engineering team, reporting to the Director, Platform Engineering, you will support the development and operation of infrastructure that powers Liferaft’s open source intelligence platform. Working closely with senior engineers, you'll contribute to the reliability, scalability, and security of our systems by assisting with cloud infrastructure, deployment tooling, monitoring, and platform automation. This is a hands-on, learning-focused role ideal for someone early in their career who is eager to grow their technical skills while supporting mission-critical services used by global security teams.

What you do as the Junior Platform Engineer at Liferaft

● 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

Requirements

What You Need to Get the Job Done

● 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

● Some knowledge of containers such as Docker or Kubernetes is an asset

● Experience with Elasticsearch or Opensearch is an asset

● Willingness to learn and grow within a supportive, fast-paced technical environment

Benefits

Why Liferaft?

 

We pride ourselves on our innovative spirit and determination to help solve new challenges developed by the complexities of open source data. Liferaft provides a threat intelligence and investigations platform to corporate security teams around the world, including some of the biggest brands you've probably referenced today! Liferaft is designed to identify, track, and validate issues from open source channels (surface, Deep web, and Dark web) related to executive safety, fraud prevention, and asset & infrastructure protection. Our technology is helping keep these companies, their people, and their operations safe – making a real impact in the world we all live in.

The diversity of our team is integral to our success. We are a team of passionate and supportive individuals and pride ourselves in fostering a collaborative, innovative, and fun culture. 

We offer our team:

  • 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
  • Diversity & Inclusion Committee
  • Authentic, engaged team, who value work life balance

We’re building a company future generations can be proud of. Diversity at Liferaft means fostering a workplace in which individual differences are recognized, appreciated, respected and responded to in ways that fully develop and utilize each person's talents and strengths. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

Job Tags

Full time, Work at office, Remote work, Live In, Flexible hours,

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