Senior Cloud Infrastructure Advisor (Azure & Hybrid)

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement(SCHL); Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 129,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual vacation allowance

Performance incentive

Defined benefit pension plan

Comprehensive group insurance

Training and mentorship

Job summary

CMHC is seeking an Advisor, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering to provide senior technical advisory support for evolving cloud and infrastructure platforms across public cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments. You will help shape strategy, standards, and modernization roadmaps while ensuring security, resiliency, and cost-conscious designs.

Collaborating with Enterprise Architecture, security, and delivery teams, you’ll validate solutions, guide architecture decisions, and ensure operational

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience.
• At least 10+ years IT experience, including 5+ years in senior technical roles delivering enterprise-scale cloud/infrastructure.
• Extensive expertise in Azure, cloud infrastructure, and hybrid environments with design, validation, governance, and operations.
• Strong knowledge of application platforms, middleware, virtualization, IaaS, PaaS, IaC, capacity planning, and platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux/UNIX
• Experience enabling DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native practices.
• Deep understanding of enterprise networking, data platforms, security, identity, encryption, monitoring, and compliance.
• Expertise in AI platform infrastructure design, landing zones, networking, RBAC, security, observability, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate emerging cloud services and infrastructures to support objectives and future capabilities.
• Conduct technical, operational, risk, security, and cost analyses to inform roadmaps and investments.
• Provide design input for cloud-centric infrastructure balancing security, scalability, and cost.
• Lead hands-on validation, POC activities, and design assessments for feasibility and security.
• Ensure alignment with security, privacy, risk, resilience, and regulatory requirements.
• Research and pilot new technologies and vendors for modernization and reliability.
• Develop and adopt cloud infrastructure standards, reference designs, and guardrails.
• Contribute to AI platform foundations including landing zones, networking, and governance.
• Provide senior technical guidance through reviews, mentoring, and stakeholder discussions.

Skills

Azure expertise

Hybrid cloud

Enterprise-scale design

DevOps experience

Security and compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux/UNIX

Red Hat

AIX

Job description

CMHC is seeking an Advisor, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering to provide senior technical advisory support for evolving cloud and infrastructure platforms across public cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments. You will help shape strategy, standards, and modernization roadmaps while ensuring security, resiliency, and cost-conscious designs.

Collaborating with Enterprise Architecture, security, and delivery teams, you’ll validate solutions, guide architecture decisions, and ensure operational