Cloud Engineer – GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Hybrid | Downtown, Toronto

Duration: 01/12/2026 to 12/18/2026

Our client a leading financial institution in Downtown Toronto, is looking for a Cloud Engineer – GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, to participate in planning and retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.

Typical Day in role:

  • Technical ownership/leadership of enterprise cloud product(s) or a complex part of a larger product including the design, software, and processes necessary for ongoing operations.
  • Designing, implementing, and refactoring code.
  • Participating in design discussions focused on scalability, design, and implementation best practices.
  • Ensuring software, programs, and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity, and reliability requirements.
  • Working with other lead engineers and architects on designing solutions and breaking-down, scoping, and estimating tasks.
  • Design strategies and tools to deploy, monitor, and administer Cloud applications and the underlying services for Cloud.
  • Our teams are flexible and fast, requiring daily peer review and quality control.
  • Infrastructure on a legacy pipeline – writing terraform modules to redploy and deploy those objects using Terraform

Must-Have Skills:

  • 4+ years’ advanced experience with IaC: Terraform with strong experience in building reusable modules following best practices
  • 8+ years of relevant experience as a cloud engineer / software engineer / systems engineer
  • 3+ year GCP and Kubernetes networking model. To be able to troubleshoot networking problems, setup firewall rules, and understand traffic flows.
  • 5+ years’ proven experience in cloud development (Google GCP, Microsoft Azure, AWS) with domain expertise in cloud platform features and capabilities
  • Experience with design for scalable, enterprise-level software systems (both on code and infrastructure levels).

Nice-To-Have Skills:

  • Experience in data migration is a plus (CloudSQL, GCS Buckets)
  • Working knowledge of the Argo Suite (ArgoCD, ArgoWF, ArgoRollouts) and HashiCorp Vault/ExternalSecret Operator
  • Experience with OPA Gatekeeper is a plus.
  • Knowledge of VPC-SC in GCP and other security control mechanisms is a plus.
  • Knowledge of /experience with any or all of the following will be an asset:
  1. Cloud Infrastructure architecture
  2. Security
  3. Software design patterns
  • Experience in delivering enterprise systems, collaborating and driving solutions with multiple teams across the organization.
  • Experience with migration projects

Soft Skills Required:

  • Attention to details, high standards for quality.
  • Desire to learn, grow yourself and your team.
  • Passion for driving teams towards high performance and a deep pride in quality craftsmanship that delights users.
  • Investigating, analyzing, and resolving system problems.
  • Ability to solve ambiguous and typically novel problems that require the effort of several engineers.
  • Strong communication skills, both written and spoken; of specific importance is strong communication to a technical audience.

Education:

  • Bachelor (equivalent or higher) degree 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.