Cloud Engineer

Position Title: Cloud Engineer
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Estimated Duration: 7 months

Story Behind the Need:
Business group: Hosted Cloud Services – team works on pipelines and tools to deploy cloud native resources to public clouds (Azure and GCP); work on in-house build pipelines (code basis built on Ruby, Python and Jenkins for Groovy code), from configuration management perspective using Puppet DSL
Project: Software currency – contractor will be responsible for creating platform components and services for the broad enterprise use. Key accountabilities include development and maintenance of cloud platforms, services, and components to enable safe enterprise-wide use of common cloud functionality. Role is on Azure side. Migrate capabilities from Ruby based pipelines to terraform hence need someone who can write modules, OPA policies

Candidate Value Proposition:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with technology partners who help the business transform. You will get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology and engage with the latest emerging technologies (Terraform, Azure, GitHub) on a brand new project, can be part of the design discussions that would help form future versions of Azure to be used (high visibility).
Typical Day in Role:
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.
Participate in planning and retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.
Be able to build and operate scalable software and infrastructure.
Level 3 support responsibilities are required.
Key accountabilities include development and maintenance of cloud platforms, services, and components to enable safe enterprise-wide use of common cloud functionality.
Candidate Requirements/Must-Have skills:
5+ years’ relevant IT work experience
3+ years’ experience in cloud platform/components/services development
Strong recent hands-on development experience with HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise/Cloud, specifically with creating modules using HCL
Proven experience in cloud development (Microsoft Azure – preferred)
Experience with Policy-as-Code development for OPA (Rego)
Experience with VCS tools such as GitHub
Nice-To-Have Skills:
Experience with Azure DevOps, software release processes, CI/CD processes and tools such as Jenkins
Experience with Configuration Management tool such as Ansible and Salt
Knowledge of software design patterns, infrastructure architecture, DevOps, and security considerations
FI/banking experience
Soft Skills:
Ability to solve ambiguous and typically novel problems that require team effort
Strong communication skills, both written and spoken; of specific importance is strong communication to a technical audience.
Attention to detail with high standards for quality.

Education:
Post-secondary education in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related IT field is an asset

Best vs. Average Candidate:
*Hands-on keyboard developers who can write code, modules and policies
• Focus on Terraform and hands-on experience creating/writing modules, hasn’t just used modules; and Azure experience
• A self-starter with a strong sense of personal accountability and team responsibility.
• Detail oriented, analytical and capable of investigating complex / technical issues and provide alternative solutions, project & production methodologies.