Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

GuruLink; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Cloud Solutions Architect to join their DevSecOps & Cloud Engineering team. In this pivotal role, you will lead a talented group of platform engineers to create innovative solutions that enhance software development experiences. Your expertise in cloud automation and platform architecture will be crucial in establishing strong partnerships with development teams, addressing their challenges, and implementing effective solutions. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of cloud technology while working in a collaborative environment that values creativity and problem-solving. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we want to hear from you!

Benefits

Connection with talented peers

Core values-driven culture

Performance-driven compensation

Investment in education and training

Qualifications

• 2+ years in software development, especially backend API.
• 3+ years in DevSecOps or similar roles with platform automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to deliver value and usability in platform solutions.
• Understand developer pain points and address them effectively.
• Design reusable components for platforms using DevSecOps.

Skills

Software delivery experience

Backend API development

Platform automation

Engagement with software development teams

Problem-solving with technical teams

Analytical skills

Education

Eligibility to work in Canada

Tools

AWS

Ansible

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Bash

Python

Job description

Location: Toronto, Ontario

We design and deliver products and solutions that empower our clients to achieve more. Whether we’re leading real-time money movement, driving innovative commerce solutions, or making advancements in new areas like verification and open banking, we play a key role in shaping the future of the digital economy.

Want to make a lasting impact among a community of creative thinkers, problem solvers, technical gurus, and high-performance application developers? We want to hear from you.

As a Cloud Solutions Architect, you will be part of the DevSecOps & Cloud Engineering group. Working closely with the other members of a leadership triad, the Product Manager and Tech Lead, you will share in the accountability for leading a team of platform engineers building the next generation of platforms.

Our vision for our platforms is to provide “zero touch”, at will deployment for our software development community. We are assembling the platform from cloud-native infrastructure, networking, and services, as well as cloud-based IaC and DevSecOps tooling, treating the software developers in our product lines as the primary user who we aim to make happy.

Our ideal candidate is someone who started out in software development and later moved into platform automation role. You will be able to connect well with, and understand the pain of, the software development community, through a bond of shared experience. On the other hand, you bring with you a deep understanding of current cloud automation tooling that you acquired through hands-on delivery of cloud and/or DevSecOps platform solutions.

At this point in your career, you are strong enough on the technology that you feel ready to take on a leadership role in the delivery of platform automation for a software development community. You are up for a new challenge, to become an ambassador for platform cloud automation and DevSecOps to the software development community, establishing new practices for engaging that community, working directly within it to understand and document its challenges, and translating what you find into designs that can be quickly and effectively delivered by your platform team.

You'll be responsible for:

1. Leading a team in a shared responsibility model with a Product Manager and Tech Lead, together accountable for the value and usability of what the team delivers.
2. Understanding developer pain points and addressing them effectively.
3. Establishing and maintaining ongoing relationships with the development community.
4. Creating and managing a constant feedback loop with software developers to understand the usability, viability, and value of what is being built for them by the platform team.
5. Designing reusable components for platforms using DevSecOps and cloud components.
6. Hands-on contribution to automation of the platform (~20% of your time coding).
7. Keeping our tooling and processes up to date with our evolving needs, and improving them with deep telemetry instrumentation, dashboards, and deployment automation.
8. Implementing and maintaining system configurations and baselines to support secure application development and software control best practices and standards.
9. Contribute to a cross-functional support structure with Platform and AppOps teams.

Special Perks:

How we work: We know that exceptional people have great ideas and are passionate about their work. Our culture encourages excellence and actively rewards contributions with:

• Connection: You’re surrounded by talented people every day who are driven by their passion of a common goal.
• Core Values: They define us. Living them helps us be the best at what we do.
• Compensation & Benefits: Pay is driven by individual and corporate performance and we provide a multitude of benefits and perks.
• Education: To ensure you are the best at what you do we invest in you.

Must Have Skills:

You bring:

• Eligibility to work in Canada in a full-time capacity.
• Software delivery experience, especially on backend API development (2+ years working as a software developer or in a similar capacity).
• Experience implementing platform automation for software development with tooling native to cloud platforms (3+ years working in a DevSecOps, SRE, or similar role).
• Experience in application or platform architecture or design, where a team of technical people looked to you for leadership and guidance on solutioning and decision-making.
• No fear to engage software development teams, treat them as clients, and integrate into them to discover the problems they have at the platform level, and forge partnerships between them and your platform team to solve those problems quickly and effectively.
• Enthusiasm for solving problems with other technical people, working together to identify problems, hypothesize possible solutions, try them out, and ruthlessly judge the results using hard data that supports or invalidates the hypotheses.
• Analytical and creative flare, enabling you to turn what you discover from engaging software developers in direct interaction into designs that squads of platform engineers can implement quickly and easily.

Technical skills:

• Understanding of software development and design patterns.
• Experience in cloud technologies such as AWS.
• Experience in pipeline development.
• Knowledge of scripting with things like Bash, Python, and APIs.
• Experience with IaC tools such as Ansible and Terraform playbooks.
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker.
• Knowledge of container orchestration tools like Kubernetes.

We require employees to complete a background check that is completed by one of our service providers. We use this service to complete the following checks:

• Canadian criminal record check.
• Public safety verification.
• Canadian ID cross-check.
• 5-year employment verification.
• Education verification.
• If applicable, Credit Inquiry and Social Media Check.