Job Description

Story Behind the Need:

• Business group: Cloud Engineering - Team is undertaking a critical modernization initiative to build an enterprise-wide cloud platform on Google Cloud. This platform will leverage Kubernetes infrastructure as code to enable scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure. A key focus is creating a seamless CI/CD experience that reduces developer friction, enhances productivity, and enables robust self-service capabilities.
• Project: We are building a next-generation cloud platform on GCP, designed to support enterprise-scale workloads with modern DevOps practices. This role will focus on designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines that empower developers with intuitive, self-serve deployment capabilities. To meet our ambitious timelines and quality standards, we are expanding our team with skilled engineers who thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments.

Candidate Value Proposition:

• As part of this initiative, you'll work on a high-impact project that integrates cutting-edge technologies including Kubernetes, GCP, GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Argo CD. You'll gain hands-on experience with enterprise-grade CI/CD tooling and contribute to building a secure, scalable platform--skills that are highly transferable across financial institutions and the broader tech industry. This is a unique opportunity to elevate your technical profile while shaping the future of cloud engineering at scale.

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 .
• Participate in planning and retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.
• Our teams are flexible and fast, requiring daily peer review and quality control.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 8+ years of relevant experience as a developer / software engineer / cloud engineer
• 2+ year experience with containerized applications: GKE (preferred), Kubernetes
• 2+ years' experience with CI/CD: Github, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Github Actions or similar
• 5+ years' proven experience in cloud development (Google GCP, Microsoft Azure, AWS - in order of preference) 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:

• Full stack experience in product development
• Experience within Canadian financial institutions
• Knowledge of /experience with any or all of the following will be an asset:

o Cloud Infrastructure architecture
o Security
o Software design patterns

• Experience in delivering enterprise systems, collaborating and driving solutions with multiple teams across the organization.
• Experience with networking in a multi cloud hybrid environment
• 1+ year experience with IaC: Terraform

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.

Best VS. Average Candidate:

• Someone who knows what they are doing and come in and execute with minimal hand holding;
• Experience with GKE will be prioritized - Experience with building enterprise grade system, doing enterprise work with GKE. Enthusiasm for cloud transformation and cloud platform/components/services development.
• Understanding of software development life cycle as well as related technologies, and software release process (environments, binary repositories, CI/CD). The ideal candidate will have some awareness of ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Argo Events Github Actions and Github.

Candidate Review & Selection:

• 2 rounds - 1 hour for 1st round
• 1st with HM - MS Teams Video - culture/team fit
• 2nd technical panel interview with technical team - In Person - technical scenario-based questions, coding questions through codility shared live in the interview

Job Details
13545
Contract
6 months
Toronto
78.00 CAD
Recruiter
Karan Singh
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