Senior Cloud Engineer

Symend; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in digital engagement solutions is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer in Toronto. The successful candidate will manage cloud environments, enhance deployment processes, and collaborate across teams to improve system performance. Applicants should have hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Azure, and a strong technical background in cloud services and DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with Azure services including App Gateway and Key Vault.
• Familiarity with Microservices architectures, ISTIO Service Mesh, and Blue/Green deployments.

Responsibilities

• Manage deployment across production, testing, and development environments on Azure.
• Coordinate build and release pipelines, enhancing service deployment efficiency.
• Collaborate with teams to improve system capabilities and security standards.

Skills

Kubernetes

Microservices architecture

Continuous Delivery

GitOps workflows

Automation

Terraform

Collaboration

Technical Proficiency

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields

Tools

Azure

Red Hat OpenShift

Akamai

Auth0

Job description

The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for deploying product updates, identifying production issues, and implementing integrations that meet client needs. The role involves executing and automating operational processes efficiently, accurately, and securely.

Duties and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Management of a variety of environments (production, test, development) deployed on Azure
• Coordinate build and release pipelines across projects with varying technologies.
• Enhancing service deployment, efficiency, reliability, and scalability
• Collaborate with architects, technologists, and other stakeholders to enhance future system capabilities and scalability.
• Participate in developing and improving security standards and practices.
• Collaborate with the product team on feature updates and improvements.

Education:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields

Experience:

• Experience supporting multiple development teams from a DevOps perspective within a technical solution that spans multiple geographic regions.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments (ideally 3+ years).
• Experience with Microservices architectures, Blue/Green deployments, and ISTIO Service Mesh
• Extensive hands-on experience with Argo CD and Argo CD Rollouts, supporting continuous delivery and GitOps workflows in production environments.
• Experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines, including building containerized C# applications, implementing automated testing, and managing continuous deployments across multiple environments.
• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift is a strong asset.
• Experience with Akamai and Auth0
• Experience with a variety of Microsoft Azure services including App Gateway, Key Vault, Azure SQL, Redis, and Firewalls
• Ability to create and manage Cloud resources with Terraform

Key Behaviors and Skills:

• Curiosity : Continuously seeks out new technologies, tools, and practices to improve platform performance and reliability. Challenges assumptions constructively and contributes innovative ideas that align with platform and business goals.
• Resilience : Remains calm and focused during incidents and periods of change. Identifies risks early, adapts quickly under pressure, and contributes to solutions that enable the team to deliver reliably in high-stakes or uncertain environments.
• Collaboration : Builds strong working relationships across teams and functions. Communicates technical work and ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and contributes to shared goals through coordinated execution.
• Strategic Execution : Prioritizes work that aligns with platform and business objectives. Manages personal dependencies effectively and delivers high-impact contributions through well-scoped, scalable, and high-quality solutions.
• Technical Proficiency : Applies deep expertise in infrastructure and DevOps to design and implement robust, secure, and scalable systems. Makes sound technical decisions and contributes to raising engineering standards through peer reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Product Knowledge : Understands Symend’s platform and infrastructure needs and uses that knowledge to inform technical decisions. Connects day-to-day engineering work to product performance, scalability, and customer experience, and collaborates closely with Product and Engineering peers.

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