Bilingual Cloud Infrastructure Operations Lead

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement(SCHL); Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 104,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CMHC is hiring a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Operations Engineer to manage cloud infrastructure, ensure security and high availability, and drive automation across Azure environments. The role collaborates with architecture, development, security, and IT teams to enable digital transformation.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in cloud engineering, strong IaC and scripting skills, and a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a bilingual setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or equivalent experience required.
• 7+ years in cloud architecture, engineering and operations.
• Experience with hybrid and multi-cloud governance.
• Proficiency with IaC tools and automation scripting.
• Strong networking, virtualization, and containerization knowledge.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and communicating with executives.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy cloud resources across Azure; maintain high availability.
• Implement IaC with Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or Ansible for scalable environments.
• Advise leadership on automation and cloud optimization; mentor juniors.
• Lead security and compliance audits; enforce least privilege and IAM controls.
• Ensure uptime, incident response, and regulatory readiness per Canadian privacy rules.
• Develop self-healing cloud architectures with automation and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Cloud architecture

DevOps practices

Executive communication

Security frameworks

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

CloudFormation

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

CMHC is hiring a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Operations Engineer to manage cloud infrastructure, ensure security and high availability, and drive automation across Azure environments. The role collaborates with architecture, development, security, and IT teams to enable digital transformation.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in cloud engineering, strong IaC and scripting skills, and a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a bilingual setting.