Manager, Cloud & Infrastructure Automation

GIRO Inc.; Montreal; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

GIRO Inc. in Montreal seeks a Manager, Cloud & Infrastructure Automation to lead a team delivering automated hosting pipelines, infrastructure templates, and APIs for GIRO applications.

You will ensure secure, tested, and observable capabilities while collaborating with RUN, BUILD, Security, and Architecture teams to align the roadmap and manage dependencies. Fluency in French and English enables global collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience managing or leading a technical team with coaching, skills development, performance management, and capacity planning.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud environments, including provisioning, identity, networking, and security.
• Experience with automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), APIs, or CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to manage a portfolio of work and balance new initiatives, technical debt, security, maintenance, and urgent requests.
• Strong focus on quality, testing, observability, documentation, and maintainability.
• Ability to mobilize technical specialists, challenge proposed solutions, assess risks, and guide technical decisions.
• Ability to communicate clearly in French; Proficiency in English for international collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Engage, coach, and develop team members, set measurable objectives, and support their technical and professional growth.
• Plan work based on priorities, capacity, skills, and delivery commitments, balancing evolution, maintenance, and technical debt.
• Evolve automation of recurring hosting processes and promote API-driven, self-service approaches.
• Oversee provisioning capabilities, IaC modules, pipelines, and configurations for GIRO environments.
• Ensure delivered capabilities are secure, tested, documented, observable, and ready for operation in collaboration with RUN teams.
• Collaborate with Product Owner, Architecture, Project, Security, and Development to align roadmaps and manage dependencies.

Skills

Team leadership

Azure Cloud

Automation & IaC

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Stakeholder comms

French fluency

English fluency

Cloud security

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

Job description

## YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO MAKING A POSITIVE IMPACT Would you like to lead a team that is transforming how Cloud environments are built and operated? As **Manager, Cloud & Infrastructure Automation**, you will lead a team responsible for automating GIRO’s core hosting processes and industrializing the creation of the infrastructure required to run our applications.You will be responsible for your team’s people, skills, capacity, succession planning, and quality of execution. You will create the conditions needed to deliver and maintain the pipelines, APIs, infrastructure templates, and tools that enable the automated creation of environments hosting GIRO applications.You will also ensure close collaboration between the teams responsible for building and evolving hosting capabilities (**BUILD**) and those responsible for their day-to-day operation (**RUN**). ## YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES * Engage, coach, and develop team members, set measurable objectives, and support their technical and professional growth.* Plan work based on priorities, capacity, skills, and delivery commitments, while maintaining a sustainable balance between evolution, maintenance, support, and technical debt.* Evolve the automation of recurring hosting processes and promote API-driven and self-service approaches that reduce manual intervention.* Oversee the development and maintenance of provisioning capabilities, Infrastructure as Code modules, pipelines, and configurations required for GIRO environments.* Ensure delivered capabilities are secure, tested, documented, observable, and ready for operation, in collaboration with the Run Manager and SREs.* Collaborate with the Product Owner, Architecture, Project, Security, and Development teams to align the roadmap, manage dependencies, and clarify BUILD-RUN responsibilities.* Communicate delivery status, capacity, quality, risks, and dependencies to management. ## THE SKILLS THAT WILL MAKE YOU A KEY MEMBER OF OUR TEAM * Experience managing or formally leading a technical team, including coaching, skills development, performance management, and capacity planning.* Solid understanding of **Microsoft Azure Cloud environments** and key considerations related to provisioning, identity, networking, and security.* Experience with automation, **Infrastructure as Code (IaC)**, APIs, or CI/CD pipelines.* Ability to manage a portfolio of work and balance new initiatives, technical debt, security, maintenance, and urgent requests.* Strong focus on quality, testing, observability, documentation, and maintainability.* Ability to mobilize technical specialists, challenge proposed solutions, assess risks, and guide technical decisions without necessarily implementing every solution personally on a day-to-day basis.* Ability to influence a variety of stakeholders and foster constructive collaboration across teams.* Sound judgment, managerial courage, rigor, customer focus, and a continuous improvement mindset.* Ability to communicate clearly in French. **Proficiency in English is required** to collaborate with partners and teams in an international environment. ## ASSETS THAT COULD SET YOU APART* Experience in a **SaaS environment or in hosting client solutions**.* Experience working with an **SRE team** or within a **BUILD-RUN collaboration model**.* Knowledge of **Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps**, or comparable tools.* Experience in an environment with stringent **security and compliance requirements**. ## **READY TO HELP SHAPE THE FUTURE WITH US?**Apply today and connect with our Talent Acquisition team. We look forward to meeting you!*In accordance with the standards and regulatory requirements to which GIRO adheres, all positions—whether permanent, fixed-term, or internship—are subject to a criminal background check. Positions that involve access to financial data are also subject to a credit check. All verifications are conducted in accordance with GIRO’s established procedures.****Employment Conditions****Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the selected country at the time an offer of employment is made. It is the sole responsibility of candidates to obtain any required work permits, visas, or other authorizations prior to their start date.*