Senior Cloud Engineer - Azure

About the role

Join the Technology and Business Transformation team in the 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.

Locations : Toronto -Ottawa -Montreal

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, wihle 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.

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Highspring LLC (d/b/a Vaco by Highspring) and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries ("we," "our," or "Vaco by Highspring") are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by applicable law. The company is also committed to ensuring that persons who need them are provided with reasonable accommodations; if an accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact HR@vaco.com .

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By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. Additionally, you agree to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. Lastly, you agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

For residents of Ontario, Canada only: to the extent the position for employment is not with Highspring or not otherwise noted as vacant above, candidate should be informed that this role is to replace a presently employed person at Vaco by Highspring's client.

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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring's use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client's use of AI products in hiring.

Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

· the individual's skill sets, experience and training;

· licensure and certification requirements;

· office location and other geographic considerations; and

· other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or participation in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company's retirement plan (or similar retirement benefits).