Cloud Resiliency Architect, Senior Manager, Deloitte Global Technology

Deloitte Canada; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 104,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in Canada is seeking a Cloud Resiliency Architect responsible for ensuring IT and cloud architecture designs align with business continuity requirements. The role focuses on architecting high availability and disaster recovery setups. Candidates must have a strong background in cloud architecture with at least 8 years of experience, particularly in AWS or Azure. This firm offers a competitive salary ranging from $104,000 to $215,000 and a hybrid work model emphasizing wellness and professional growth.

Benefits

Mental health support benefit ($4,000 per year)

Flexible benefit spending account ($1,300)

Dedicated learning days

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cloud architecture, platform engineering, or SRE.
• Deep hands-on experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Strong IaC skills with Terraform and CI/CD experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect high availability patterns for distributed systems.
• Define and implement DR plans aligned to compliance requirements.
• Lead resiliency testing and automate failover procedures.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Disaster Recovery (DR)

Automation

Kubernetes

Stakeholder management

Education

8+ years in cloud architecture/platform engineering

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Job description

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Location: Toronto, ON, CA, M5C 3G7

Job Type: Permanent
Work Model: Hybrid
Reference code: 129588
Primary Location: Toronto, ON
All Available Locations: Toronto, ON; Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Halifax, NS; Saint John, NB

Our Purpose

At Deloitte, our Purpose is to make an impact that matters. We exist to inspire and help our people, organizations, communities, and countries to thrive by building a better future. Our work underpins a prosperous society where people can find meaning and opportunity. It builds consumer and business confidence, empowers organizations to find imaginative ways of deploying capital, enables fair, trusted, and functioning social and economic institutions, and allows our friends, families, and communities to enjoy the quality of life that comes with a sustainable future. And as the largest 100% Canadian-owned and operated professional services firm in our country, we are proud to work alongside our clients to make a positive impact for all Canadians.

By living our Purpose, we will make an impact that matters.

• Have many careers in one Firm.
• Enjoy flexible, proactive, and practical benefits that foster a culture of well-being and connectedness.
• Learn from deep subject matter experts through mentoring and on the job coaching

Deloitte Global is the engine of the Deloitte network. Our professionals reach across disciplines and borders to develop and lead global initiatives. We deliver strategic programs and services that unite our organization.

The Technical Architecture Lead is responsible for ensuring that IT and cloud architecture designs align with Deloitte Technology business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) requirements. This role is crucial in ensuring that Deloitte Technology IT and cloud environments are secure, resilient, and capable of withstanding disruptions, supporting continuous business operations.

This role involves assessing resilient architectural frameworks, mitigating risks, and ensuring high availability, failover strategies, and compliance with industry standards. The ideal candidate will work closely with IT and solutions, security, risk management stakeholders to develop and implement robust cloud and IT infrastructure strategies that guarantee operational continuity.

What will your typical day look like?

We’re seeking a Cloud Resiliency Architect to design, implement, and continuously improve resiliency strategies across our cloud estate. You will lead the architecture for high availability, disaster recovery (DR), and business continuity—ensuring our critical workloads withstand failures, cyber incidents, regional outages, and rapid demand shifts. This role partners closely with Platform Engineering, Products and Solutions, Security, and SRE/Operations stakeholders to meet stringent RTO/RPO targets.

Responsibilities

• Resilient Architecture Design – Architect HA/FT patterns for distributed systems across Azure/AWS/GCP and hybrid environments (active‑active, active‑passive, zone/region failover, multi‑cloud strategies).

• Business Continuity & DR – Define, implement, and maintain DR plans (runbooks, recovery tiers, data protection, replication strategies), aligned to business impact analysis, RTO/RPO, and compliance requirements.

• Failure Mode & Risk Analysis – Perform dependency mapping, blast‑radius reduction, chaos testing, and threat modeling to identify and mitigate single points of failure.

• Automation & Orchestration – Build automated failover and recovery pipelines using IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation/Bicep), CI/CD, and cloud‑native services (Route 53/Azure Traffic Manager/Cloud DNS; ASGs/VMSS; Kubernetes operators).

• Resiliency Testing – Lead regular DR exercises, game days, and tabletop scenarios; measure outcomes and drive corrective actions.

• Observability & SLAs – Establish resiliency KPIs (e.g., MTTR, error budgets), implement health checks, synthetic probes, and automated remediation with runbooks.

• Governance & Compliance – Ensure adherence to regulatory and industry frameworks (ISO 22301/27001, NIST SP 800‑34/53, SOC 2) and internal risk policies.

• Cross‑Functional Leadership – Advise product teams on resilient microservices patterns (circuit breakers, backoff/retry, bulkheads, idempotency); coach engineers and advocate best practices.

About the team

Deloitte Technology works at the forefront of technology development and processes to support and protect Deloitte around the world. In this truly global environment, we operate not in “what is” but rather “what can be” to help Deloitte deliver and connect with its clients, its communities, and one another in ways not previously conceived.

Enough about us, let’s talk about you

Qualifications:

• 8+ years in cloud architecture, platform engineering, or SRE, including 4+ years focused on availability/resiliency/DR.
• Deep hands‑on experience with at least one major cloud (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and solid understanding of another.
• Proven track record designing HA/DR for mission‑critical applications (databases, messaging, caches, stateful services).
• Strong IaC skills (Terraform preferred; CloudFormation/Bicep acceptable) and experience with Git‑based workflows.
• Expertise with container orchestration (Kubernetes), service mesh (e.g., Istio/Linkerd), and distributed systems patterns.
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Cloud‑native monitoring) and alerting.
• Demonstrated experience leading DR exercises and chaos testing.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.

Preferred Certifications:

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, Google Professional Cloud Architect
• Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) or ISO 22301 Lead Implementer

Total Rewards

The salary range for this position is $104,000 - $215,000, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.

Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth. Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people‑first organization. On top of our regular paid vacation days, some examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, firm‑wide closures known as “Deloitte Days”, dedicated days of for learning (known as Development and Innovation Days), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.

Legal and Diversity Statement

At Deloitte, we are all about doing business inclusively – that starts with having diverse colleagues of all abilities. Deloitte encourages applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of communities across Canada. This includes, but is not limited to, people with disabilities, candidates from Indigenous communities, and candidates from the Black community in support of living our values, creating a culture of Diversity Equity and Inclusion and our commitment to our AccessAbility Action Plan, Reconciliation Action Plan and the BlackNorth Initiative.