Senior Specialist, Cloud Infrastructure Operations Engineering (Azure)

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement(SCHL); Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual vacation

Performance incentive

Defined benefit pension

Group insurance

Training & mentorship

Inclusive workplace

Job summary

CMHC | Senior Specialist, Cloud Infrastructure Operations Engineering is responsible for designing, deploying, and optimizing cloud infrastructure across Azure. You will drive automation, implement IaC, and enforce security while collaborating with architecture, development, and security teams.

The role emphasizes operational excellence, pro-active automation, and mentoring junior staff to support CMHC's digital transformation and resilient cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in IT/CS/Networking or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of cloud architecture, engineering, and operations.
• Experience with hybrid cloud, Azure AD/EntraID, and multi-cloud governance.
• Advanced IaC and automation scripting (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Strong networking, virtualization, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud security knowledge.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and mentor staff.
• Experience presenting technical/financial roadmaps to executives and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Participate in solution design with Enterprise Architecture and deploy Azure resources.
• Implement and optimize IaC using ARM/Bicep, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible for scalable cloud environments.
• Advise leadership on automation strategies and share best practices with peers to drive operational excellence.
• Mentor junior team members and foster a culture of learning and development.
• Apply cloud security best practices and conduct regular audits of privileged accounts and settings.
• Ensure uptime, incident response, and regulatory compliance, logging security incidents per privacy laws.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Cloud engineering

IaC automation

Scripting (Python/Bash/PowerShell)

Docker/Kubernetes

Cloud security

Leadership

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Networking

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

CloudFormation

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Requisition ID: 11774

Position Status: Permanent Full Time

Position Type: Hybrid

Office Location: Ottawa (ON); Montreal (QC); Toronto (ON)

Travel Requirement: Limited

Language Designation: English Essential

Language Skill Levels (Read/Write/Speak): ZZZ

Security Requirement: Secret

About CMHC

The work you do and the work we do together matters. We come to work every day with a common purpose: to contribute to a well-functioning housing system.

At CMHC, we hold ourselves accountable for our results and support our colleagues in their achievements. We thrive on collaboration, connecting across CMHC and involving the right people to get our work done. Our leadership style is guided by trust, where our leaders favour an adaptive approach based on the needs of their teams.

Join us and be part of a team that's committed to making a real difference and be part of something meaningful.

What’s in it for you

Benefits

• Annual Paid vacation.
• Annual individual performance incentive.
• Defined benefit pension plan.
• Comprehensive group insurance plan to support your well-being from day one.
• Support towards your personal and professional growth with training, mentorship and more.
• An inclusive workplace culture and environment.

About The Role

Join the Technology and Business Transformation team in the Senior Specialist, Cloud Infrastructure Operations Engineering position. In this position, you will be responsible for infrastructure, platform engineering, managing, monitoring, and optimizing cloud infrastructure services to ensure high availability, scalability, and security. This role involves collaborating closely with architecture, development, security, and IT teams to maintain robust cloud environments. This role is pivotal in enabling digital transformation and operational excellence by ensuring the reliability and security of cloud platforms that underpin core business applications.

What You Will Do

• Participate in solution design in collaboration with the Enterprise Architecture team and deploy, configure, and maintain cloud resources (compute, storage, networking) across Azure.
• Implement and optimize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like ARM/Bicep, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible, ensuring automation, scalability, and reliability of cloud environments.
• Provide strategic recommendations to infrastructure leadership for automating and streamlining cloud administration, while proactively sharing automation strategies, cloud administration techniques, and lessons learned with peers across IT, EA, Security, and leadership, to foster a culture of operational excellence and drive the adoption of modern cloud practices.
• Advise infrastructure leadership on optimization and efficiency improvements for cloud infrastructure and processes, and mentor junior team members to foster a culture of learning and development.
• Apply and enforce cloud security best practices —including IAM, encryption, compliance standards, and leasts privilege principles— by conducting regular audits of security settings and privileged accounts to maintain a hardened and compliant cloud environment.
• Ensure operational and regulatory readiness by maintaining accountability for cloud service uptime, incident response performance, and compliance audit results, while logging and recording all security incidents and breaches in accordance with Canadian privacy legislation and OSFI breach notification and recordkeeping requirements.
• Design and implement resilient cloud architectures in partnership with the Enterprise Architecture team, delivering self-optimizing and self-healing designs using Azure native capabilities, GitHub Actions, and automation tooling.
• Industrialize operations through automation and DevOps by scripting routine tasks and workflows in Python, Bash, and PowerShell, and contributing to CI/CD pipelines for deployment and ongoing maintenance.

What You Should Have

• An undergraduate degree in a related field such as information technology, computer science, or network engineering. An equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered.
• A minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in cloud architecture, engineering, and operations.
• An extensive experience with hybrid entity, cloud integration (Azure AD/EntraID), and multi-cloud governance.
• An advanced expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and automation scripting (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Python, Bash, PowerShell) with a proven track record of designing, implementing, and optimizing automated cloud infrastructure and workflows across Azure.
• A strong background in networking, virtualization, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud security frameworks.
• A demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, mentor junior staff, and drive enterprise cloud adoption.
• A proven experience presenting technical and financial roadmaps to executive leadership and non-technical stakeholders.

It Would Be Great If You Had

• Certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate (preferred), AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer.
• An experience with AWS and GCP.
• A demonstrated experience implementing advanced identity security measures, including PAM solutions and SIEM/SOAR integration.
• A proven ability to design and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and industry-standard tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI.
• A strong knowledge of cost optimization strategies and FinOps principles.

Posting closing date

Note, the competition will remain active until filled.

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

We’re committed to employment equity and encourage women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, veterans and persons of all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions to apply. We also welcome applications from non-Canadians who are eligible to work in Canada.

CMHC is an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought – and of people – are recognized, valued, and considered essential to achieving our mission.

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