Senior Cloud Engineer – GCP, Terraform

Finance Professionals Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Downtown Toronto is in search of a Senior Cloud Engineer specializing in GCP and Terraform. This role involves providing technical leadership, designing and implementing code, and ensuring software reliability and compliance. Join a top-tier bank, contributing towards their cloud initiatives and enjoy a collaborative environment emphasizing quality and performance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with Cloud Environments (GCP, AWS, Azure).
• 3+ years of Terraform coding experience.
• 5+ years in Infrastructure Operations or DevOps roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical ownership of components and design code.
• Support automating and creating IaC for cloud storage solutions.
• Mentor and lead teams, driving high-quality performance.

Skills

Cloud Environments

Terraform

Infrastructure Operations

DevOps

Coding (Go, Python)

CI/CD tools

Container-based technologies

Configuration management tools

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering/mathematics

Job description

Our client, a leading financial institution inDowntown Toronto,is looking for aSenior Cloud Engineer – GCP, Terraform, to be responsible for supporting the bank’s CAP initiative concerning Google Cloud Storage solutions. This individual will support and create IaC code, automation, policies, and patterns around Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV), Google Cloud Storage buckets (GCS), and persistent disks. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.

Typical Day in role:

• Technical ownership/leadership of a component of a larger product.
• Designing, implementing, and refactoring code (typically Go, Python).
• Ensuring software, programs, and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity and reliability, security, and compliance requirements.
• Working with other lead engineers and architects on breaking down, scoping, and estimating tasks.
• Working with application teams for successful onboarding onto the Platform
• Participate in planning and retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.
• Provide mentorship, peer review, and code review
• Lead a product/service, and define functions or features for cloud platforms, and lead the work of 4+ engineers
• Be able to build and operate the highly available and scalable software and infrastructure.
• Day: stand-up/daily scrum with team in Agile framework, 2-week sprint periods; tracking work in Kanban; working on different tasks and providing updates; not always deploying at the end of every sprint, but working towards tasks set on the roadmap

Must-Have Skills:

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

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• GCNV experience
• GCS experience

Soft Skills Required:

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

Education:

• Bachelor’s (equivalent or higher) degree in computer science or engineering/mathematics discipline

Finance professional is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. We advocate for you and welcome anyone regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.