Sr Technical Consultant

The Co-operators Group Limited; Burlington; Hybrid; CAD 91,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training & development

Flexible work options

Well-being programs

Volunteer days

Total rewards package

Job summary

The Senior Technical Consultant at CGL partners with teams to translate system requirements into scalable cloud architectures. You will plan, maintain, and upgrade complex multi-tier platforms across AWS or Azure, leading incident response and guiding best practices in automation and security.

Strong communication and mentoring are essential to drive successful outcomes. You will contribute to knowledge sharing and ensure stable environments, while collaborating with architecture and development

Qualifications

• Seven to ten years of technical experience in progressive environments.
• Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or equivalent.
• Led multiple complex, resilient technical solutions with focus on security, performance and reliability.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration with business partners.

Responsibilities

• Translate system requirements into architectures for cloud infrastructure.
• Plan, maintain, and upgrade complex multi-tier platforms and environments.
• Provide leadership and guidance across teams during cloud initiatives.
• Document processes, share knowledge, and support incident resolution.
• Assess risk and design solutions to improve efficiency, reliability and performance.

Skills

Kubernetes management

Automation

Cloud architectures

API gateway familiarity

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Information Technology or Computer Science degree

Tools

Terraform

Cloud-native tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Company: CGL
Department: Cloud Platforms Ops & Eng
Employment Type: Regular Full-Time
Work Model: Hybrid (2 days in office)
Language: This role operates in English.
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 system requirements and architect 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

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

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 build trusting relationships and provide guidance to support the development of colleagues.

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 a condition of employment, in the event you are the successful candidate.

What’s in it for you?

• Training and development opportunities to grow your career.
• Flexible work options and paid time off 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.

Expected salary/hourly range $91,058 - $141,000+

The salary amount for the successful candidate is determined by Co-operators in its discretion and will vary depending on several criteria including but not limited to: local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualification, experience and education.

Employees may also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn additional compensation tied to individual and/or business performance, or other business metrics.