71914

Toronto, ON

Contract

5 days ago

The Lead Hybrid Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for engineering and support of the On-Prem/Cloud (e.g., AWS) infrastructure delivered via an agile/scrum or traditional/hybrid SDLC methodology. The successful candidate will provide Infrastructure Solutions ensuring that all technical deliverables meet the highest quality standards, enabling 99.99% uptime.

This role works closely with product manager and delivery teams, including security, to understand business requirements, product features and expected outcomes (revenue, customer/client satisfaction, data) and performs infrastructure planning, design and deployment to efficiently deliver the solutions.

Critical to success will be a collaborative mindset, strong technical expertise, ability to align with overall architecture & design, translate business requirements to technical needs, and deliver infrastructure for efficient, scalable. and high quality solutions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead planning, design, deployment, and operation of infrastructure components to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability of deployed infrastructure.
Liaise with business and technical stakeholders to ensure proper priority in addressing technical debt. Advise delivery teams to ensure technical debt is efficiently addressed (group related components).
Provide high level estimates on infrastructure delivery work effort (planning, design, implementation, and post implementation support).
Manage and maintain web, application and database servers, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.
Develop and implement Ansible and Terraforms scripts for infrastructure deployment and management configurations.
Develop and implement infrastructure solutions for Web, Java and Analytics applications.
Design and plan migration of on-prem physical and virtual infrastructure to AWS cloud, ensuring compliance with best practices for security, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure issues, ensuring prompt resolution to minimize downtime.
Develop and maintain documentation for infrastructure processes, configurations, and procedures.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of infrastructure components with applications and services.
Provide technical guidance and directions to development, networking teams to ensure proper infrastructure integration and deployment.
Act as escalation point for scrum/project teams on functional, technical, quality, and timeline challenges
End-to-end responsibility for all technical aspects of infrastructure releases ensuring all parties are engaged and aligned such as Network/Ops, InfoSec, and Operations. This includes obtaining timely approval at various gates, configuration review, testing, and operational readiness.
Ensure threat test and production environments are aligned and in sync and able to meet critical product release/implementation deadlines.
Engage in the daily huddle, and regular leadership status meetings.
Establish the production support cadence, review ongoing operations, and rectify any issues.
Understand how company’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
Research, evaluate and recommend new technologies, processes, and tools to enhance Infrastructure capabilities.
Mentor and guide infrastructure engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth.
Ensure agile best practices are applied to technical Infrastructure deployment.

Qualifications

Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related fields
10+ years of experience in IT infrastructure technical lead roles in global organizations
Expert Infrastructure knowledge in the financial sector (large financial institutions, financial arms of insurance companies, and credit bureaus) is a must-have.
Strong background in security concepts, compliance management, infrastructure deployment, management, and control processes.
Strong experience with AWS, including EC2, S3, RDS, EKS and other relevant services.
Solid understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC) principles and tools such as Terraform, Ansible or AWS Cloudformation.
Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar.
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
Good understanding on how to align IT strategies with business objectives.
Have experience and passionate about leveraging technologies to drive innovation and efficiency to enable business objectives.
Technical expertise in full technology stack esp back-end, batch. Good understanding of infrastructure, data, InfoSec, Operations.
Good understanding on practical application of Cloud and Data technologies is an asset.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
Knowledge of Java and web application development and deployment.
Good understanding of networking concepts, security best practices, and disaster recovery planning.
Strong people leadership in a technical capacity (attract, grow, and retain)
Highly analytical and problem-solving skills. Hands on experience in application production support.
Ability to work during outside of regular office hours to enable collaboration across global teams, and support production management or implementation issues.
Proven experience in planning, designing, deploying, and operating infrastructure components.

The pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position is between CA$80.00 and CA$100.00

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.

Tundra Technical Solutions is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in our workplace.

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