Senior Azure Platform Architect - AI & DevSecOps

Société Financière Manuvie; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 113,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

Manulife is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer to design, scale, and modernize secure cloud platforms that support critical business systems across a global financial services organization.

You’ll provide technical leadership across Azure platform architecture, CI/CD strategy, and infrastructure as code, partnering with engineering teams to deliver resilient, cost-effective cloud solutions and explore AI-enabled workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing, and operating Azure cloud environments.
• Hands-on with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, identity, and security principles.
• Experience improving reliability, availability, and observability of production systems.
• Ability to influence technical direction and mentor others without direct authority.
• Comfort working across teams and communicating complex technical topics clearly.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve secure, scalable Azure platform architectures that support modern application workloads.
• Define and improve CI/CD strategies, infrastructure standards, and reusable platform patterns.
• Lead technical discovery with stakeholders to understand business goals, constraints, and risk tolerance.
• Evaluate existing Azure and DevOps environments and recommend modernization improvements.
• Guide teams on cloud architecture decisions related to networking, identity, security, observability, and resiliency.
• Support containerized and orchestrated workloads using modern deployment models.
• Establish and promote DevSecOps practices, including secure access, policy enforcement, and compliance automation.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to shared engineering standards and best practices.
• Communicate architectural trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Work effectively in environments with evolving requirements and incomplete information.
• Explore and prototype AI-enabled workflows, tooling, or platform capabilities where they add meaningful value.

Skills

Azure architecture

Terraform / Pulumi

CI/CD pipelines

Networking & security

Observability & SRE

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

AKS

Azure Monitor

Job description

Manulife is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer to design, scale, and modernize secure cloud platforms that support critical business systems across a global financial services organization.

You’ll provide technical leadership across Azure platform architecture, CI/CD strategy, and infrastructure as code, partnering with engineering teams to deliver resilient, cost-effective cloud solutions and explore AI-enabled workflows.