23 Jan
S.i. Systems
Toronto
Intermediate Cloud Engineer with GCP and Terraform experience to design and manage cloud services with one of our major banking clients- 36685
Location Address: Hybrid - Toronto - 1/week (every Wednesday)
Contract Duration: ASAP to 30/05/2025
Possibility of extension & conversion to FTE
Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week - at times, expected to be a part of after-hours project deployments in the evenings or weekends - candidates need to be OK with this
Story Behind the Need
- Business group: Cloud Engineering - main teams are responsible for creating platform (Kubernetes)
and all connections for logging monitoring chargeback and setting up all processes around creating/establishing Cloud resources for different projects; creating processes for automating releases; spearheading creation and management of new resources coming to Bank; some teams are responsible for CICD processes - encompassing Bank’s security and auditable processes to go from development/non-prod to production environment; DevOps teams assisting in SDLC; troubleshooting and acting as a point person between development and operations teams.
- Project: Cloud Acceleration Program - moving towards Google Cloud, team will be focusing on virtual machines in the Cloud, initiative to move virtual machines from private cloud environment VMWare to GCVE/GCE environments; in initial phases; program will take a few years before is fully completed
- As a Cloud Engineer you will be working closely with platform engineering team to design, build and maintain cloud platforms. You will be at the forefront of managing and optimizing our cloud operations for the cloud platforms and services. If you’re passionate about cutting-edge technologies, cloud-native solutions, and driving innovation,
this role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of digital banking.
Typical Day in Role:
- Participating in design discussions focused on scalability, design, and implementation best practices.
- Ensuring software, programs and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity, and reliability requirements.
- Participating in planning, retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.
- Supporting application teams on the use of cloud platform including providing guidance on design patterns, best practices, and security considerations.
- Level 3 support responsibilities are required.
- Design and manage Cloud Services - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) & Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- You thrive on the detailed design & deployment of cloud services; the same in the design & implementation of automated delivery pipelines for the cloud services.
- You can work with engineers and architects on breaking-down, scoping, and estimating tasks.
- You are proficient in providing Level 3 support for developed Cloud Services.
- You can develop & document operational procedures for service operations teams.
Must Have Skills:
- 3+ years of hands-on technical working experience in Cloud Services (Azure, AWS, GCP), with at least 1+ with Google Cloud Platform.
- 2+ years of hands-on technical working experience in HashiCorp’s Terraform in implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) delivery pipelines e.g. Terraform modules, Terraform Cloud
- 2+ years’ experience with Compute (Linux Virtual Machines, Disks, VM Manager, GCVE)
- 2+ years’ experience with Containerization (Docker, Google Kubernetes Engine)
Nice-To-Have Skills:
- 2+ years of hands-on technical working experience of using Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Tools (e.g., GitHub Enterprise and/or Azure DevOps) for the purposes of maintaining pipelines
- 1+ years of experience with development languages (Python, Powershell,GO etc.) - scripts in GCP written in Python, developed using CI/CD pipelines, from Ops POV if issues with scripts, they should be able to resolve issues in scripts; Go is related to Kubernetes
- 1+ years of hands-on technical working experience in the use of Configuration Management & Automation tools (e.g., Saltstack, Perforce’s Puppet and/or Red Hat Ansible and/or Progress® Chef®).
- 2+ years of hands-on technical working experience with Bash and/or Powershell to develop automation & deployment utilities
- 2+ years’ experience Storage Services (Persistent Disks, Backup and DR Service,
Cloud Storage)
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (master’s degree preferred).
Best VS. Average Candidate:
- Ideal candidate has experience migrating workloads from existing cloud and on-prem; strong GCP experience.
- Top bank, IT service industries, migration project from On prem to clound environment who has worked as as cloud engineer and not as support engineer.
Candidate Review & Selection
In person interviews availability is must- Toronto or Scarborough
1st round - 30 mins - HM interview - MS teams
2nd round - In person - 1-hour technical panel interview - deep dive on skillset, technical questions on solutioning
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