Senior Technical Consultant

Co-operators; Regina; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance and financial services provider based in Canada is looking for a Senior Technical Consultant to enhance their IT services. The role involves planning, maintaining systems, and ensuring optimal performance across cloud platforms. Candidates should have significant technical experience and a degree in IT or Computer Science. This position offers training, flexible work options, and a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee well-being.

Benefits

Training and development opportunities

Flexible work options

Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits

Paid volunteer days

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of technical experience in complex environments.
• Led implementation of resilient technical solutions.
• Exceptional communication and team collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee infrastructure performance and security.
• Collaborate with development and architecture teams.
• Coordinate complex technical incident resolution.

Skills

Containerization

Kubernetes management

Infrastructure as code (IaC)

AWS or Azure cloud platforms

API gateway technologies

Education

Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Overview

Company: CGL

Department: IT

Employment Type: Regular Full-Time

Work Model: Hybrid

Language: This role operates in English.

Referral Award: No

Additional Information: This/these role(s) is/are currently vacant

The Opportunity

We are a leading Canadian financial services co-operative committed to being a catalyst for a sustainable and resilient society and our team is essential to deliver on this strategy. That’s why we prioritize our people, to ensure we provide a strong culture and development opportunities which enables our team to thrive and to live our purpose. The best part is that you will work with people that care passionately about you, our clients, and our communities.

Our Information Technology team aspires to be a leader in applying technology to power business strategies. We connect concepts with solutions to create value and efficiencies for our clients, employees, and communities. Our success is driven by our skilled and diverse team who are passionate about excellence, innovation, and agility.

As the Senior Technical Consultant, you will partner with team members and the business to translate requirements and develop creative solutions in support of corporate goals. You will be responsible for planning, maintaining, and upgrading complex systems, processes and procedures across multi-tiered platforms and environments. You will provide leadership and guidance to others and work at an expert technical level through all phases of cloud infrastructure plans, builds, optimizations, system upgrades, and support.

Technologies You Have Experience With

• Containerization, Kubernetes management, and automation technologies.
• Managing infrastructure as code (IaC) with Terraform, source code management, infrastructure deployment automation.
• Cloud-native technologies, and strong experience in at least one of AWS or Azure cloud platforms. Cloud resource monitoring and efficiency analysis tools.
• API gateway and Content Delivery Network technologies.

How You Will Create Impact

• Overseeing infrastructure, performance and capacity, security posture, and integration with internal and external environments and applications.
• Collaborate with the development and infrastructure architecture teams to identify technology performance and service impacts and configuration changes required, as a result of new and changing applications and business needs.
• Coordinate and manage complex technical incident and problem resolution within various production and test environments by conducting research, diagnosis, investigation, testing, and recommending and implementing solutions.
• Contribute to organizational knowledge by documenting new processes and solutions, updating existing process and knowledge documents, and participating in active knowledge transfer across the team and support teams.
• Ensure technical environment is stable and working at the optimum level by providing ongoing technical support and maintenance of complex technologies, both internal and outsourced.
• Providing risk assessment and analysis to determine how new technology will integrate into various environments, researching and designing technology solutions and formulating recommendations that address business needs and improve efficiency, reliability and performance.
• Directing large and complex technical projects and creating detailed work plans and time estimates for infrastructure implementations, operational changes and major enhancements.
• Coaching and mentoring peers and business partners, ensuring team members are aware of new processes and technology and developing methodologies, standards, and tools.

How You Will Succeed

• You have an innovative mindset to improve operational efficiencies and ability to influence change, with a primary focus on client needs.
• You use critical thinking skills to recognize assumptions, evaluate arguments, draw conclusions and proactively propose solutions.
• You have strong communication skills to clearly convey messages and explore diverse points of view.
• You are an effective team player who builds trusting relationships with stakeholders and peers.

To Join Our Team

• You have seven to ten years of technical experience in progressively complex technical environments, including support of business-critical internal and external customer applications.
• You have a degree in Information Technology, or in Computer Science, or equivalent technical experience.
• You have led the implementation of multiple complex and resilient technical solutions with a focus on security, performance and reliability.
• You have exceptional communication skills, and you collaborate effectively with business partners and guide them in identifying solutions that best meet their needs.
• You're a strong troubleshooter and creative problem solver, and you excel at collaborating with and leading teams toward resolution

What You Need To Know

• Working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Extended work hours, including evenings and weekends, will be required from time to time.
• Rotational on-call schedule, with shifts during evenings and weekends will be required.
• You will be subject to a Background check as per requirement of this position as a condition of employment.

What\'s in it for you?

• Training and development opportunities to grow your career.
• Flexible work options to support your personal and family needs.
• A holistic approach to your well-being, with physical and mental health programs and a supportive workplace culture.
• Paid volunteer days to give back to your community.
• In addition to our competitive salary and incentive programs, eligible employees also benefit from a comprehensive total rewards package including group retirement savings plans, pension and benefits (e.g., health and wellness, dental, disability and life coverage), mental health support and an employee assistance program.