Cloud Engineer

Nexus Systems Group Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions provider is seeking a Cloud Engineer with over 8 years of experience in cloud environments, particularly GCP, along with strong skills in Terraform and cloud operations. The role includes designing, developing, and maintaining cloud services, leading a team of engineers, and ensuring high reliability and security standards. An educational background in computer science or engineering is required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on technical experience with Cloud Environments such as GCP, AWS, Azure.
• 3+ years of Terraform coding experience.
• 1-2 years of hands-on cloud operations and administration experience with GCP.
• 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure Operations, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering Operations roles.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and refactor code (Go, Python).
• Ensure development meets high availability, integrity, reliability, security, and compliance.
• Work with lead engineers on breaking-down and estimating tasks.
• Lead a product/service, overseeing the work of 4+ engineers.

Skills

Cloud Environment Experience

Terraform coding

DevOps practices

Scripting languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

Overview

• As a member of the Cloud Storage team, responsible for supporting the banks CAP initiative with respect to Google Cloud Storage solutions.
• Support and create IaC code, automation, policies and patterns around Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV), Google Cloud Storage buckets (GCS) and persistent disks.
• Design, development and maintenance of cloud platforms, services, and components to enable safe enterprise-wide use of public cloud offerings.
• Technical ownership/leadership of a component of a larger product.
• Ability to build and operate highly available and scalable software and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, implementing, and refactoring code (typically Go, Python).
• Ensure software, programs and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity and reliability, security, and compliance requirements.
• Work with other lead engineers and architects on breaking-down, scoping and estimating tasks.
• Collaborate with application teams for successful onboarding onto the Platform.
• Participate in planning and retrospective sessions, attend stand-ups, etc.
• Provide mentorship, peer review and code review.
• Lead a product/service, and define functions or features for cloud platforms, leading the work of 4+ engineers.
• Build and operate the cloud platform for reliability and scalability.
• Engage in Agile practices: daily stand-ups, 2-week sprints, track work in Kanban, and progress toward roadmap tasks.

Required Qualifications

1. 8+ years of hands-on technical experience with Cloud Environments such as GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.
2. 3+ years of Terraform coding experience.
3. 1-2 years of hands-on cloud operations and administration experience with GCP.
4. 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure Operations, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering Operations roles.
5. 5+ years of hands-on experience with development/scripting languages, container-based technologies, configuration management tools, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.

Nice-To-Have Skills

• Unix administration skills.
• DevOps experience.
• GCNV experience.
• GCS experience.
• Persistent Storage solutions experience.

Soft Skills

• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Passion for driving teams towards high performance and quality craftsmanship.
• Ability to communicate with internal stakeholders on a call.

Education

Bachelor (equivalent or higher) degree in computer science or engineering/mathematics discipline.