Location: Toronto, ON - Hybrid, 4 days per week onsite
Duration: 12 months (1 year), starting ASAP - extension & Conversion possible
Schedule: Monday to Friday, core business hours · 7.5 hours/day · 37.5 hours/week
Employment Type: Contract - conversion & extension possible
Job Description
Our client, a leading North American financial institution, is standing up a brand-new data-processing project within Corporate Technology - and this is the first engineering hire on the team. That means the person who joins sets the technical foundation rather than inheriting one: infrastructure as code, CI/CD, configuration management, monitoring and reliability practice for a platform built on Microsoft Azure and Azure Databricks.
You will work in a complex, critical enterprise environment where the scope is genuinely multi-faceted and the expectation is ownership. You will deploy, manage and operate complex applications in the cloud, automate aggressively with PowerShell, Bash and Python, and bring order to a landscape that is still being defined. It is a 12-month contract with extension potential, hybrid from downtown Toronto, and a rare opportunity to architect the runway you will then run on.
Experience: 8–10 years minimum overall engineering experience, with 7+ years hands-on Azure
Responsibilities
Platform engineering & infrastructure as code
- Design, build and maintain Azure infrastructure using IaC (Terraform, Bicep, Ansible) with version-controlled, reviewable, repeatable deployments.
- Deploy and configure Azure Databricks workspaces for enterprise use - networking, private endpoints, identity/RBAC, cluster policies, cataloguing and workspace configuration.
- Apply configuration management discipline (Salt, Ansible, Chef or equivalent) to eliminate drift and manual build steps.
- Establish environment standards and promotion paths from development through production.
- Implement secrets, key and access management in line with enterprise security policy.
Reliability, automation & operations
- Build and own CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) including build, test, security scanning and deployment gates.
- Write production-grade automation in Python, PowerShell and Bash/Shell to remove recurring manual work.
- Instrument infrastructure, services and applications for monitoring and logging, and define alerting that reflects real user impact.
- Lead troubleshooting of complex production issues and drive root-cause analysis through to permanent fix.
- Work in Agile delivery with developers and stakeholders, contributing to design reviews, runbooks and operational documentation.
Required Skillsets
- Azure cloud (7+ years): IaaS and PaaS engineering across subscriptions - networking, storage, compute, identity, policy and cost controls.
- Azure Databricks: proven enterprise infrastructure setup and configuration, including workspace provisioning and cluster/security governance.
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Bicep, Ansible and PowerShell deployed through automated pipelines, with modular design and state management.
- Configuration management: Salt, Terraform, Ansible or Chef - idempotent configuration at enterprise scale.
- Development/engineering (7+ years): Python, PowerShell, Bash/Shell used for real automation, not one-off scripts.
- DevOps practice: CI, CD, CM and IaC concepts plus Agile principles within a DevOps organization.
- Toolchain (7+ years): Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket, Nexus or comparable - pipeline authoring and artifact management.
- Monitoring & logging: infrastructure, services and application observability, alert design and log analysis.
- Troubleshooting: excellent diagnostic skills in distributed production systems; methodical RCA.
- Seniority & ownership: 8–10+ years total experience; able to act as senior/lead SME and resolve highly complex issues independently.
Preferred Skillsets
- Big-data technologies and database management - storage, indexing and data-access trade-offs.
- Delta Lake, ADLS Gen2 and Unity Catalog in an enterprise Databricks estate.
- Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Grafana, Prometheus or Splunk.
- Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400) and/or Databricks certifications.
- ASP/.NET application engineering background.
- Kubernetes/AKS and containerized workloads.
- FinOps / cloud and Databricks cost optimization.
- Regulated financial-services or large-enterprise change-management experience.
- Strong organizational, follow-up and priority-setting skills in ambiguous, multi-faceted assignments.
Education: Undergraduate degree or technical certificate in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
Certifications: Azure (AZ-104 / AZ-305 / AZ-400) and Databricks certifications strongly preferred, not mandatory
License: N/A
About US Tech Solutions:
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