JOB DESCRIPTION
Location: Hybrid(Downtown, Toronto)
Duration: 6 months
Our client a leading financial institution in Downtown Toronto, is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer – DevOps, Kubernetes, to build and maintain developer-facing tools for interacting with various cloud platform technologies.. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.
Typical Day in role:
- Key accountabilities include development, management, and maintenance of cloud platforms, services, and components to enable safe enterprise-wide use of common cloud functionality.
- Designs reusable, scalable, and secure service integration patterns for multi-tenant platforms.
- Advocate for developer needs in cloud architecture and product decisions.
- Own the design, development, and operation of integration patterns for services used across tenants
- Champion automation and self-service, reducing dependency on manual interventions.
- Act as a bridge between platform engineering and tenants, translating complex technical concepts into simple, usable workflows.
- Collaborate with the product team and other stakeholders to estimate and size initiatives.
- Mentor and coach other members of the cloud engineering team.
Level 3 support responsibilities
- Design, implement, and refactor code.
- Ensure software, programs, and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity, and reliability requirements.
- Work with other engineers and architects on breaking down, scoping, and estimating tasks.
- Lead planning and retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.
- Build and operate the highly available and scalable software and infrastructure.
- Support application teams on the use of the platform, including guiding design patterns, best practices, and security considerations.
Must-Have Skills:
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience in DevOps and Cloud Platform Engineering
- 3+ years’ recent experience with container orchestration tool: Kubernetes
- 3+ years’ experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (i.e. Terraform, Helm, Kustomize).
- 3+ years’ experience with CI/CD design and integration, preferably GitOps
- 5+ years’ programming experience in modern programming languages: Go (preferred), Java, Python
Nice-To-Have Skills:
- Experience with the GCP cloud platform
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability patterns in a multi-tenant environment
- Experience with cloud application security concerns.
- Experience working within financial institutions or regulated enterprise environments.
Soft Skills Required:
- Great communication skills
- Team player
- Cross-functional and collaboration skills
- Ability to translate complex technical terms into simple easy to digest terms for different audiences
Education:
Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or engineering/mathematics discipline.
Finance professional is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. We advocate for you and welcome anyone regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.