Azure Hybrid Cloud Platform Engineer & Automation Lead

Maple Leaf Foods Inc.; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Maple Leaf Foods is seeking a hands-on consultant to build, automate, operate, troubleshoot, and improve hybrid cloud infrastructure. The role focuses ~75% on Azure, IaC, Terraform, automation, and platform ops, with ~25% on on‑prem Hyper‑V/VMware support.

The successful candidate will implement scalable Azure platform services, develop reusable Terraform modules, and provide Level 3 support for complex incidents while guiding migrations and security alignment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building, operating, and troubleshooting Azure infrastructure.
• Experience with Terraform code and reusable modules.
• Automation and scripting using PowerShell and Azure CLI.
• Ability to own complex incidents and perform root-cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and support Azure cloud capabilities, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, automation, and platform operations.
• Build, configure, operate, troubleshoot, and continuously improve Azure platform services, including subscriptions, networking, identity integration, monitoring, backup, governance guardrails, and operational support patterns.
• Develop and maintain reusable Terraform modules, deployment pipelines, environment separation, state management, code-review practices, testing, documentation, and drift‑remediation processes.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, compliance checks, operational tasks, and remediation using Terraform, PowerShell, Azure CLI, Git-based workflows, and related tools.
• Provide hands‑on Level 3 support for complex Azure and hybrid platform incidents, perform root‑cause analysis, implement durable fixes, and improve runbooks and monitoring.
• Support cloud migrations and modernization by assessing workloads, preparing landing‑zone requirements, executing or guiding migrations, validating outcomes, and resolving post‑migration issues.
• Supporting and improving on‑premises Hyper‑V and VMware environments, including virtualization hosts, clusters, storage integration, backup, disaster recovery, capacity, lifecycle, and production resilience.
• Create practical solution designs and implementation plans for Azure and hybrid infrastructure, ensuring designs can be deployed, operated, secured, monitored, and supported by the team.
• Partner with Security, application, data, network, and operations teams to deliver secure and supportable platform solutions that meet business needs.
• Challenge vendors, validate technical recommendations, and participate directly in proofs of concept, implementation, testing, handover, and issue resolution.
• Coach CloudOps engineers through pairing, code reviews, troubleshooting, and knowledge transfer while remaining personally accountable for hands‑on delivery.
• Lead workload placement and migration planning, including whether workloads should move to Azure, remain on‑premises, modernize, retire, or use a transitional pattern.

Skills

Azure infrastructure

Terraform

Automation

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Git-based pipelines

Hybrid cloud

Hyper-V / VMware

Tools

Terraform modules

Job description

Maple Leaf Foods is seeking a hands-on consultant to build, automate, operate, troubleshoot, and improve hybrid cloud infrastructure. The role focuses ~75% on Azure, IaC, Terraform, automation, and platform ops, with ~25% on on‑prem Hyper‑V/VMware support.

The successful candidate will implement scalable Azure platform services, develop reusable Terraform modules, and provide Level 3 support for complex incidents while guiding migrations and security alignment.