Bilingual Advisor, Cloud Infrastructure Design and 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 paid vacation

Performance incentive program

Defined benefit pension plan

Comprehensive group insurance

Training and mentorship programs

Inclusive workplace culture

Job summary

CMHC seeks a senior technical authority to define and govern cloud and infrastructure platforms across public cloud, hybrid, and on‑premises environments. You will translate requirements into scalable, secure cloud solutions, shaping strategy, roadmaps, and major technology investments, while guiding teams and ensuring operational readiness.

The role emphasizes cloud platform governance, secure design principles, and collaboration with leadership to drive modernization and cost-effective

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years IT experience including 5+ years in senior technical roles.
• Expertise in Azure, cloud infrastructure, and hybrid environments.
• Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux/UNIX, and scalable platforms.
• Experience enabling DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC practices.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate cloud services and technologies to support future-state architecture.
• Perform risk, cost, and operational analyses to inform strategy.
• Design cloud-centric solutions balancing security, scalability, and cost.
• Ensure designs comply with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Research and pilot new technologies; contribute to modernization initiatives.
• Define and enforce cloud infrastructure standards and governance.
• Establish secure AI foundations including landing zones and access controls.
• Provide senior technical leadership across multiple teams.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux/UNIX

Job description

Job Requisition ID: 12527

Position Status: Permanent Full Time

Position Type: Hybrid

Office Location: Montreal (QC); Ottawa (ON)

Travel Requirement: Limited

Language Designation: Bilingual

Language Skill Levels (Read/Write/Speak): BBB

Security Requirement: Reliability Status

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.

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 Bilingual Advisor, Cloud Infrastructure Design and Engineering position.

The Advisor, Cloud Infrastructure Design and Engineering is a senior technical authority responsible for defining, governing, and continuously improving the organization’s cloud and infrastructure platforms across public cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. The role ensures infrastructure solutions align with business objectives, IT strategy, security, operational requirements, and enterprise standards by establishing cloud architecture principles, design standards, reusable patterns, reference implementations, and governance guardrails.

Acting as the technical design lead, the Advisor translates business and technical requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, observable, automated, and cost-effective cloud solutions, while shaping cloud strategy, target-state architectures, modernization roadmaps, and major technology investments. Working closely with infrastructure leadership and cross-functional teams, the Advisor provides expert guidance on cloud services, platform selection, design trade-offs, and operational readiness, setting the technical direction for how cloud platforms are adopted, integrated, secured, and operated across the enterprise to drive consistent, sustainable, and high-performing infrastructure outcomes.

What You’ll Do

• Evaluate emerging cloud services, infrastructure platforms, and technologies to support business objectives, operational needs, and future-state architecture.
• Conduct technical, operational, risk, and cost analyses to inform cloud strategy, infrastructure roadmaps, and investment decisions.
• Design cloud-centric solutions that balance security, scalability, resiliency, availability, supportability, performance, and cost optimization in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Ensure all cloud and infrastructure designs comply with security, privacy, risk, resilience, regulatory, and OSFI requirements, while continuously identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Research, validate, pilot, and recommend new technologies, vendors, and services, while contributing to cloud and infrastructure strategy and modernization initiatives.
• Define, govern, and enforce cloud infrastructure standards, design principles, reference architectures, reusable patterns, policies, operational guardrails, and API platform requirements.
• Establish secure and scalable foundations for AI platforms, including landing zones, networking, identity, access controls, data access patterns, observability, and compliance requirements.
• Provide senior technical leadership through design governance, the Cloud Infrastructure Design Forum, mentoring, stakeholder influence, risk management, 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 solutions, architecture, 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 architecture.
• 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.

What happens after you apply

We know that applying for a new job can be both exciting and daunting, and we appreciate your effort. If you are selected for an interview or testing, please advise us if you require an accommodation. If you applied before and you were not successful don't worry - we're always posting new positions, so don't hesitate to give it another shot. We're excited to see what you bring to the table this time around!