Senior Cloud Engineer, Google Firebase Platform

BDO Canada; Toronto; On-site; CAD 84,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO Canada is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer specialized in Google Firebase to help design, build, and scale cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform. You will collaborate with architects, managers and client stakeholders to enable a reusable Firebase platform in an enterprise banking environment.

You will implement Terraform-based IaC, promote modules across DEV, staging and production, and build CI/CD pipelines with proper security and governance.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in software development, cloud consulting, application architecture, or cloud engineering.
• Experience designing and implementing solutions on Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience building shared platform services, onboarding templates, and repeatable patterns for multiple application teams.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code discipline, including modular Terraform design, versioning, release controls, and environment promotion.
• Enterprise CI/CD delivery experience, including gated deployments, validation workflows, artifact/module release processes, and deployment evidence.
• Experience working within formal change-management and ITSM processes, including controlled promotion to staging and production environments.
• Security-first engineering mindset, including IAM, API key controls, usage restrictions, vulnerability considerations, and audit-ready documentation.
• Familiarity with enterprise cloud governance, naming conventions, environment structures, access controls, and standard operating procedures.
• Ability to work with architecture, security, networking, mobile engineering, marketing/product, and operations stakeholders.
• Experience designing or supporting Day 2 operations, including support models, intake processes, runbooks, monitoring, alerts, and recurring maintenance activities.
• Comfort working in regulated environments where documentation, traceability, approvals, and operational handoff are essential.
• Ability to explain technical decisions clearly and support review by client architects, cloud governance teams, and operational stakeholders.
• Strong written communication, including detailed implementation notes, module documentation, planning artifacts, and ticket-level updates.
• Ability to stabilize Terraform modules and operational processes after initial DEV delivery and before staging/production promotion.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain Terraform modules for Firebase platform capabilities, including Firebase Cloud Messaging, Remote Config, Crashlytics, Analytics, marketing integrations, and API key management.
• Implement reusable onboarding patterns, templates, and checklists for mobile application teams consuming Firebase services.
• Configure and promote Firebase platform modules through DEV, staging, and production environments using approved CI/CD and change-management processes.
• Integrate Firebase services with enterprise cloud services, Google services, messaging/event platforms, Google Maps, Play Integrity, and related platform dependencies.
• Support secure Firebase project and environment setup, including naming conventions, IAM/security configuration, API key scoping, usage restrictions, coexistence, and rotation.
• Build and maintain pipeline automation, module release processes, validation steps, smoke testing, and QA support for Firebase platform components.
• Define and document Day 2 operational processes, including monitoring, alerting, usage/quota tracking, error handling, SDK upgrade processes, support/intake models, and operational runbooks.
• Support knowledge transfer to engineering and operations teams, including documentation walkthroughs and enablement sessions.
• Maintain detailed technical documentation, implementation notes, ticket updates, and deployment evidence for visibility and auditability.
• Operate within enterprise security, IAM, networking, governance, and change-management standards for a regulated banking environment.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Security‑first mindset

Documentation skills

Tools

Terraform

Google Cloud Platform

Firebase

CI/CD tooling

IAM configuration

Job description

BDO Canada is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer specialized in Google Firebase to help design, build, and scale cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform. You will collaborate with architects, managers and client stakeholders to enable a reusable Firebase platform in an enterprise banking environment.

You will implement Terraform-based IaC, promote modules across DEV, staging and production, and build CI/CD pipelines with proper security and governance.