JOB DESCRIPTION
Location: Hybrid | Toronto Downtown
Duration: 4 months
Our client a leading financial institution in Downtown Toronto is looking for a Sr. Cloud Engineer – GCP to be able to build and operate the highly available and scalable software and infrastructure. 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 design, development and maintenance of cloud platforms, services, and components to enable safe enterprise-wide use of public cloud offerings
- Technical ownership/leadership of a component of a larger product.
- Designing, implementing, and refactoring code (typically Go, Python).
- Ensuring software, programs and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity and reliability, security, and compliance requirements.
- Working with other lead engineers and architects on breaking-down, scoping and estimating tasks.
- Working with application teams for successful onboarding onto the Platform
- Participating in planning and retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.
- Provide mentorship, peer review and code review
- Lead a product/service, and define functions or features for cloud platforms, lead the work of 4+ engineers
- Day: stand-up/daily scrum with team in Agile framework, 2-week sprint periods; tracking work in Kanban; work on different tasks and provide updates; not always deploying at end of every sprint but working towards tasks set on roadmap
Must-Have Skills:
- 8+ years of hands-on technical working experience with Cloud Environments such as GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.
- 1-2 years of hands-on cloud operations and administration experience with GCP
- 5+ years’ technical working experience in an Infrastructure Operations, DevOps or Cloud Engineering Operations type of role
- 5+ years’ hands-on technical working experience with development/scripting languages, container-based technologies, config management tools, container-based technologies, CI/CD tools, and Infrastructure as Code
Nice-To-Have Skills:
- Unix administration skills
- DevOps experience
- GCNV experience
- GCS experience
- Persistent Storage solutions experience
Soft Skills Required:
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Passion for driving teams towards high performance and a deep pride in quality craftsmanship.
- Able to communicate with internal stakeholders on a call
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.