Advisor, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement(SCHL); Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 129,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual vacation allowance

Performance incentive

Defined benefit pension plan

Comprehensive group insurance

Training and mentorship

Job summary

CMHC is seeking an Advisor, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering to provide senior technical advisory support for evolving cloud and infrastructure platforms across public cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments. You will help shape strategy, standards, and modernization roadmaps while ensuring security, resiliency, and cost-conscious designs.

Collaborating with Enterprise Architecture, security, and delivery teams, you’ll validate solutions, guide architecture decisions, and ensure operational

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience.
• At least 10+ years IT experience, including 5+ years in senior technical roles delivering enterprise-scale cloud/infrastructure.
• Extensive expertise in Azure, cloud infrastructure, and hybrid environments with design, validation, governance, and operations.
• Strong knowledge of application platforms, middleware, virtualization, IaaS, PaaS, IaC, capacity planning, and platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux/UNIX
• Experience enabling DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native practices.
• Deep understanding of enterprise networking, data platforms, security, identity, encryption, monitoring, and compliance.
• Expertise in AI platform infrastructure design, landing zones, networking, RBAC, security, observability, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate emerging cloud services and infrastructures to support objectives and future capabilities.
• Conduct technical, operational, risk, security, and cost analyses to inform roadmaps and investments.
• Provide design input for cloud-centric infrastructure balancing security, scalability, and cost.
• Lead hands-on validation, POC activities, and design assessments for feasibility and security.
• Ensure alignment with security, privacy, risk, resilience, and regulatory requirements.
• Research and pilot new technologies and vendors for modernization and reliability.
• Develop and adopt cloud infrastructure standards, reference designs, and guardrails.
• Contribute to AI platform foundations including landing zones, networking, and governance.
• Provide senior technical guidance through reviews, mentoring, and stakeholder discussions.

Skills

Azure expertise

Hybrid cloud

Enterprise-scale design

DevOps experience

Security and compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux/UNIX

Red Hat

AIX

Job description

Salary: Our salaries generally range from $ 129,175.28 to $ 161,469.09 and are based on qualifications and experience.

About CMHC

The work you do and the work we do together matters. We come to work every day with a common purpose: to contribute to a well-functioning housing system.

At CMHC, we hold ourselves accountable for our results and support our colleagues in their achievements. We thrive on collaboration, connecting across CMHC and involving the right people to get our work done. Our leadership style is guided by trust, where our leaders favour an adaptive approach based on the needs of their teams.

Join us and be part of a team that's committed to making a real difference and be part of something meaningful.

What’s in it for you

Benefits

We’ve got the purpose, the people and the perks you need for a fulfilling career. Here’s the comprehensive and generous benefits you get when you’re a permanent employee:

• Annual Paid vacation.
• Annual individual performance incentive.
• Defined benefit pension plan.
• Comprehensive group insurance plan to support your well-being from day one.
• Support towards your personal and professional growth with training, mentorship and more.
• An inclusive workplace culture and environment.
• While positions at CMHC require some in-office presence, alternative work arrangements may be considered for Indigenous candidates.

Members of the following employment equity deserving groups will be prioritized for this job: Indigenous Peoples

About The Role

Join the Infrastructure and Operations team, in the Advisor, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering position.The Advisor, provides senior technical advisory support for the evolution and continuous improvement of the organization’s cloud and infrastructure platforms across public cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. The role contributes to cloud infrastructure strategy, standards, reusable patterns, operational guardrails, and modernization roadmaps, ensuring infrastructure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, supportable, cost-conscious, and aligned with business objectives, IT strategy, operational requirements, security expectations, and enterprise standards.

Working in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture, infrastructure leadership, security, application, platform, and delivery teams, the Advisor provides technical guidance, design input, and practical validation for cloud and infrastructure solutions. The role combines senior advisory responsibilities with hands‑on technical assessment, proof‑of‑concept work, and operational readiness reviews to confirm that proposed solutions are feasible, secure, resilient, observable, and supportable. Through collaboration, influence, and technical credibility, the Advisor helps inform cloud platform adoption, infrastructure modernization, and consistent engineering practices across the enterprise.

What You’ll Do

• Evaluate emerging cloud services, infrastructure platforms, and technologies to support business objectives, operational needs, and future‑state infrastructure capabilities.
• Conduct technical, operational, risk, security, and cost analyses to inform cloud strategy, infrastructure roadmaps, modernization initiatives, and investment decisions.
• Provide design input and technical guidance for cloud‑centric infrastructure solutions that balance security, scalability, resiliency, availability, supportability, performance, and cost optimization in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture and key stakeholders.
• Perform hands‑on technical validation, proof‑of‑concept activities, and design assessments to confirm feasibility, operational readiness, security, resiliency, observability, and supportability of proposed cloud and infrastructure solutions.
• Ensure cloud and infrastructure recommendations align with security, privacy, risk, resilience, regulatory, and OSFI expectations, while identifying design gaps, technical debt, operational risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Research, assess, pilot, and recommend new technologies, vendors, and services that support cloud modernization, infrastructure reliability, automation, and long‑term sustainability.
• Support the development and adoption of cloud infrastructure standards, engineering principles, reference designs, reusable patterns, policies, operational guardrails, and API platform requirements.
• Contribute to secure and scalable foundations for AI platforms, including landing zones, networking, identity, access controls, data access patterns, observability, supportability, and compliance requirements.
• Provide senior technical guidance through design reviews, the Cloud Infrastructure Design Forum, mentoring, stakeholder influence, risk discussions, and trusted advisory support across infrastructure, platform, security, application, and delivery teams.

What You Should Have

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience).
• At least 10+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years in senior technical roles, with a proven track record of delivering enterprise‑scale cloud and infrastructure solutions, platform designs, and technical roadmaps.
• An extensive expertise in Azure, cloud infrastructure, and hybrid environments, including cloud platform design, validation, governance, and operations.
• A strong knowledge of application platforms, middleware, virtualization, Infrastructure‑as‑a‑Service (IaaS), Platform‑as‑a‑Service (PaaS), Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC), capacity planning, and platform engineering.
• A hands‑on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux/UNIX environments (e.g., Red Hat, AIX), and designing scalable, resilient containerized platforms.
• An experience enabling DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and cloud‑native engineering practices.
• A deep understanding of enterprise networking, data platforms, database infrastructure, cloud security, identity and access management, encryption, monitoring, compliance, and resiliency.
• An expertise in designing and governing AI platform infrastructure and API management platforms (e.g., Azure AI Services, Azure API Management), including landing zones, networking, RBAC, security, scalability, observability, operational supportability, and governance.

Posting closing date: Note, the competition will remain active until filled.

We’re committed to employment equity and encourage women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, veterans and persons of all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions to apply. We also welcome applications from non-Canadians who are eligible to work in Canada.

CMHC is an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought – and of people – are recognized, valued, and considered essential to achieving our mission.

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