Position Title: Cloud Engineer
Location: Toronto, ON
Duration: 12 months
Story Behind the Need
Business group: Cloud Engineering – main teams are responsible for creating platform (Kubernetes) and all connections for logging monitoring chargeback and setting up all processes around creating/establishing Cloud resources for different projects; creating processes for automating releases; spearheading creation and management of new resources coming to Bank; some teams are responsible for CICD processes – encompassing Bank’s security and auditable processes to go from development/non-prod to production environment; DevOps teams assisting in SDLC; troubleshooting and acting as a point person between development and operations teams.
The Bank has embarked on the journey to modernize both development practices and tools. One of the main areas of transformation is the public cloud and the various platform technologies that support both development and operations on the cloud. The aim is to provide a streamlined process and framework which will allow the development teams to focus on building business logic. We are looking to build our development team with influencer, makers, creators, and industry leaders who will drive us forward.
Project: Cloud Acceleration Program – moving towards Google Cloud, team will be focusing on virtual learning machines in the Cloud, initiative to move virtual machines from private cloud environment VMWare to GCVE/GCE environments; in initial phases; program will take a few years before is fully completed
Candidate Value Proposition:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain exposure to latest technologies in the market in a progressive organization, grow their GCP skillsets, visibility with senior stakeholders and different business groups.
Typical Day in Role:
Senior: Own the task through to being done and discuss task with stakeholders, discuss options for technologies; pros cons and alternatives; key indecision making
Key accountabilities include managing, 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.
Managing, implementing, and refactoring code (Go, Python, etc).
Ensuring software, programs and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity and reliability, security, and compliance requirements.
Working with other 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.
Be able to build and operate the highly available and scalable software and infrastructure.
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
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
- 5+ year recent experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- 2+ years in Development in any programming lang
Nice-To-Have Skills:
- Experience with Netapp, NFS, SMB, Google cloud storage (GCS) technologies
- Experience with Google compute engine (GCE)
- 5+ years of experience in the use of CI/CD Tools
- Unix administration skills
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
Best VS. Average Candidate:
Focus is on strong GCP / GCE experience, along with Netapp, NFS, SMB, Google cloud storage (GCS) technologies
Candidate Review & Selection
1 in person round 1 hour- 44 King West – PLEASE ENSURE CANDIDATES CAN COME DOWNTOWN FOR INTERVIEWS
Hiring Manager’s availability to interview: Jan 13th onwards
The pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position is between CA$75.00 and CA$85.00
Our voluntary benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.
Tundra Technical Solutions would like to thank you for the interest you have demonstrated in this opportunity. However, only candidates with the required skills will be contacted.
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