Advisor, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 129,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual vacation

Performance incentive

Group insurance

Training & mentorship

Inclusive culture

Indigenous accommodation

Job summary

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation is seeking an Advisor, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering to lead senior technical advisory work across cloud and on‑prem environments. You will influence cloud strategy, design reusable patterns, and guide modernization efforts with security and cost in mind.

You’ll collaborate with architecture, security, and delivery teams to validate designs, perform proof‑of‑concept work, and ensure operability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field (or equivalent).
• 10+ years IT experience, 5+ years in senior technical roles delivering cloud/infrastructure solutions.
• Extensive expertise in Azure, cloud infrastructure, hybrid environments.
• Strong knowledge of IaaS, PaaS, IaC, capacity planning, platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux/UNIX.
• Experience enabling DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation.
• Understanding of enterprise networking, data platforms, cloud security, IAM, encryption, monitoring.
• Expertise in AI platform infrastructure and API management platforms like Azure AI Services.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate emerging cloud services and platforms to support objectives.
• Conduct technical, operational, risk, security, and cost analyses for roadmaps.
• Provide design input for cloud infrastructure balancing security, scalability, and cost.
• Hands-on validation, POC activities, and readiness reviews for solutions.
• Ensure recommendations align with security, privacy, risk, and OSFI expectations.
• Research new technologies to support cloud modernization and automation.
• Support development of cloud infrastructure standards, patterns, and guardrails.
• Contribute to secure AI platform foundations including landing zones and RBAC.

Skills

Azure

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

Docker

IaC

CI/CD

DevOps

Networking

Security

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux/UNIX

Red Hat

AIX

Job description

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Salary:Our salaries generally range from $129,175.28to $161,469.09and 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

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.
• 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.

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

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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