Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Our client - A large industrial organization based out of Oshawa - is looking to hire a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer for a long term contract role. This is a hybrid based position - on-site 3 days/week in Oshawa.

Key Accountabilities

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer develops, configures, implements, and supports cloud infrastructure and virtualization solutions. The role works within established cloud architecture, security, and governance standards across IaaS, Azure networking, landing zones, disaster recovery, backups, monitoring, FinOps, Infrastructure as Code, and scripting. The position independently delivers defined engineering work while collaborating with senior engineers and architects on complex designs and enterprise-wide changes.

This role on the Cloud Platform team will support multiple IT project intiatives.

Job Duties:

1. Cloud Infrastructure Implementation: Develop, configure, deploy, and support secure and scalable cloud infrastructure and virtualization solutions using approved architecture patterns and version-controlled configurations.

2. Server Automation: Develop and maintain automated server build and deployment processes using approved automation tools and scripting languages.

3. Azure Networking: Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Azure networking components including ExpressRoute, VPNs, route tables, vNETs, and vNET peering using established designs.

4. Landing Zones: Implement and maintain cloud landing zone components in accordance with approved architecture, security, and governance standards.

5. Disaster Recovery & Backups: Implement, test, and maintain disaster recovery and backup solutions to support defined business continuity requirements.

6. Monitoring & Reliability: Configure monitoring and alerting capabilities, analyze operational information, and implement improvements to infrastructure reliability and performance.

7. Cost Optimization & FinOps: Analyze cloud resource utilization and spending and implement approved optimization actions to improve cost efficiency and support FinOps transparency.

8. Infrastructure as Code: Develop and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code configurations using technologies such as Terraform and Packer.

9. Scripting & Automation: Develop and maintain scripts using Bash, PowerShell, Go, Python, or comparable languages to automate infrastructure and operational activities.

10. Security & Governance: Implement cloud infrastructure in accordance with cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and governance requirements and remediate identified configuration issues.

Qualifications

Role requires knowledge of scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure, virtualization, networking, automation, and operational practices.

Experience:

Role requires progressively responsible experience implementing and supporting cloud infrastructure solutions, including virtualization, IaaS, Azure networking, landing zones, backup and recovery, monitoring, Infrastructure as Code, scripting, and cloud operations.

Experience using technologies such as Terraform, Packer, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, or comparable tools is required.