Senior Cloud Engineer (Security Focus)

League; Old Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 111,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to enhance their cloud infrastructure and security posture. In this role, you will lead the design of major system components, ensuring reliability and scalability while implementing best practices in cloud security. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor fellow engineers, and participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation. This position offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technology in a flexible environment, making a significant impact on the health outcomes of millions. If you are passionate about cloud technologies and security, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Generous health coverage

Mentorship and development budget

Equity participation

Wellness days

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering and security best practices.
• Familiarity with container orchestration and infrastructure as code.

Responsibilities

• Lead design for system components, focusing on security and scalability.
• Collaborate on security measures and maintain high quality code.

Skills

Cloud Providers (GCP preferred)

Terraform

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Linux OS Internals

SQL/NoSQL Databases

CI/CD

Security Best Practices

Automation in Production

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Cloud Security Tools

Job description

Founded in 2014, and with a total funding currently at $220 million; League is a platform technology company powering next-generation healthcare consumer experiences. Payers, providers, consumer health partners and employers build on League’s platform to deliver high-engagement, personalized healthcare experiences consumers love. Millions of people use solutions powered by League to access, navigate and pay for care.

Why join League

• Make an impact: Your work will directly improve the health outcomes of millions of lives
• Cutting-edge Technology: Work with sophisticated tech stack: Go, MongoDB and scalable architectures
• Inclusive culture: Be part of a globally distributed team working collaboratively
• Work flexibility: Flexibility to work from our Toronto HQ office or fully remote (within Canada only)

Our Team's Mandate:

The Cloud Platform Team ensures that all of our systems are reliable, secure and meet their uptime targets. Much of our work focuses on optimizing existing systems, building new components and automating manual processes.

We believe in security by design and follow a paved road philosophy by building or buying tools that we can integrate into our platform to level-up our security posture. Security is everyone’s responsibility, but security engineering is how we make it possible for engineers to ship high quality code to production several times per day with security baked in.

By focusing on both scalability and security, the Cloud Platform Team enables League to deliver a secure and dependable experience for our users.

About You:

As Senior Cloud Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to manage our cloud infrastructure, design, build and run distributed, fault tolerant systems, and improve and automate existing processes.

What you will do:

• Lead technical design of major system components, improve availability, security and scalability of the platform and its services
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement security controls and measures to protect against data loss, unauthorized access, and other security threats
• Uphold quality standards by performing code reviews, fixing bugs, creating automated tests, and monitoring performance
• Build, manage, and improve security capabilities to improve League’s security posture
• Develop and maintain tooling following Infrastructure as Code practices
• Mentor other team members on design techniques and coding standards
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation

What You Bring:

• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Experience with Cloud Providers - GCP preferred
• Experience with configuration management/infrastructure as code tools - Terraform preferred
• Experience with container orchestration systems - Kubernetes preferred
• Experience implementing Cloud security best practices
• Experience administering Cloud security tools including CSPM and CWPP
• Experience with container hardening
• Familiarity with common security threats and vulnerabilities, including knowledge of mitigation strategies
• You know how to write high-quality and testable code in Python, Go, or other languages
• Experience working with automation in critical production environments, ensuring their reliability
• Experience with Linux operating systems internals: capabilities, filesystems, networking, etc
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) and release orchestration
• Experience analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL Databases
• Certifications such as GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer, AWS Certified Specialty - Security, or CCSP are beneficial

What We Offer:

• Comprehensive Benefits: Generous health coverage for you and your family
• Growth Opportunities: Mentorship and a learning and development budget to support your professional growth
• Equity Participation: Share in the success of a high-growth company
• Wellness days: Take time off to reset and recharge

The Application Process:

We believe applying for a job should be straightforward and transparent. Here’s what to expect:

• Submit Your Application: You’ll receive a confirmation email right away
• Talent screen: Learn more about our culture, get alignment on your compensation expectation prior to committing to next steps
• Hiring Manager Chat: Meet the hiring manager straight away to discuss your technical experience
• Meet the Cloud Platform Team: Dive into technical discussions and learn how you can make an impact at League.
• Final Steps: Meet our senior leader to discuss our mission and vision
• Offer and onboarding!

We value your time and effort—our team is committed to providing updates throughout the process.

Security-related Responsibilities:

• Compliance with Information Security Policies
• Compliance with League’s secure coding practice
• Responsibility and accountability for executing League's policies and procedures
• Notification of HR, Legal, Compliance & Security of any incidents, breaches or policy violations

CANADA APPLICANTS ONLY: The Canada-specific compensation range below for this full-time position is exclusive of bonus, equity and benefits. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target for base salaries for the position across all Canadian locations. Where in the band you may land is determined by job-related skills/experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range specific to your skills and experience during the hiring process.

Compensation range for Canada applicants only:

$111,800 - $140,000 CAD

Our employees come from different backgrounds, and we celebrate those differences. We are looking for the best candidates for our open roles, but do not expect applicants to meet every qualification in order to be considered. If you are excited about what you could accomplish at League and believe you can add value to our team, we would love to hear from you.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you are an individual in need of assistance at any time during our recruitment process, please contact us at [e-mail].