Typical Day in Role:
• Technical ownership/leadership of enterprise cloud product(s) or a complex part of a larger product including the design, software, and processes necessary for ongoing operations.
• Designing, implementing, and refactoring code.
• 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.
• Working with other lead engineers and architects on designing solutions and breaking-down, scoping, and estimating tasks.
• Design strategies and tools to deploy, monitor, and administer Cloud applications and the underlying services for Cloud .
• Participate in planning and retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.
• Our teams are flexible and fast, requiring daily peer review and quality control.
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 8+ years of relevant experience as a developer / software engineer / cloud engineer
2) 2+ year experience with containerized applications: GKE (preferred), Kubernetes
3) 2+ years’ experience with CI/CD: Github, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Github Actions or similar
4) 5+ years’ proven experience in cloud development (Google GCP, Microsoft Azure, AWS – in order of preference) with domain expertise in cloud platform features and capabilities
5) Experience with design for scalable, enterprise-level software systems (both on code and infrastructure levels).
Nice-To-Have Skills:
1) Full stack experience in product development
2) Experience within Canadian financial institutions
3) Knowledge of /experience with any or all of the following will be an asset:
– Cloud Infrastructure architecture
– Security
– Software design patterns
4) Experience in delivering enterprise systems, collaborating and driving solutions with multiple teams across the organization.
5) Experience with networking in a multi cloud hybrid environment
6) 1+ year experience with IaC: Terraform
Soft Skills Required:
• Attention to details, high standards for quality.
• Desire to learn, grow yourself and your team.
• Passion for driving teams towards high performance and a deep pride in quality craftsmanship that delights users.
• Investigating, analyzing, and resolving system problems.
• Ability to solve ambiguous and typically novel problems that require the effort of several engineers.
• Strong communication skills, both written and spoken; of specific importance is strong communication to a technical audience.
Education:
Bachelor (equivalent or higher) degree in computer science or engineering/mathematics discipline.