Senior Cloud Engineer

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Team

In partnership with the Customer Insights Data and Analytics teams and our IT partners, the Data and Analytics Technology team supports the bank's Data and Analytics needs with tooling, projects, and IT operational support. The Sr Cloud Support Engineer role will be responsible for building, tuning, managing infrastructure, platform site reliability, monitoring, and troubleshooting bank-wide initiatives supported by Data and Analytics Technology on the GCP Platform. This consists of platform building, tooling, integration, process automation, platform enhancement, and delivery of new projects.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

1. Guidance and Direction: Provide clear direction to the team, set goals, and keep the team accountable for their deliverables. Align team goals with the overall direction of the Platform.
2. Technical Oversight: Understand GCP services, Platform architecture, and best practices.
3. Quality Assurance: Ensure high quality of support delivery for the platform users. Adhere to the Platform SLAs and service objectives.
4. Process Improvements: Continually improve Platform processes and standard operating procedures for efficiency gains and automation.
5. Customer Relations: Create a strong relationship with the platform user base. Communicate effectively with the platform stakeholders and cross-functional teams within the Bank.
6. Advanced Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot and resolve performance issues to ensure optimal system performance.
7. Site Reliability: Analyze, triage, and resolve Platform issues promptly to achieve Platform site reliability objectives.
8. Incident Management: Provide support during major incidents, including after-hours support. Design strategies for incident response and user communications.
9. Observability Tools Development: Design, build, and deploy cloud logging and monitoring solutions, including improvements to current solutions for early detection of issues.
10. Cloud Managed Application Development: Design, build, and implement solutions around standard public cloud services like Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Vertex AI Notebooks, Cloud Run, and Cloud Functions among others, using Terraform Modules.
11. Release Control Management: Maintain and enhance the Release Control Management pipeline using Terraform, Cloud Build, and GitHub Actions and Bitbucket/GitHub repositories.
12. Client Pipeline Management: Implement CI/CD processes by designing industry-standard Cloud Build for deploying Infrastructure and analytics workloads using Terraform, Docker, Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, Artifact Registry, and other build/deployment activities.
13. Credential Security: Setup Hashicorp Vault and Secret Manager for secret management. Integrate security solutions with client interfaces.
14. Client User Acceptance Testing: Lead clients in user acceptance testing for component and base image upgrades, ensuring smooth transitions and minimal disruptions.
15. Vendor and Technical Support Interaction: Regularly meet with product vendors and technical support to fine-tune and troubleshoot software components, ensuring the highest level of system performance and reliability.
16. Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers in best practices for building, deploying, testing, and supporting services, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

1. 5+ years of experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
2. 5+ years of experience with Cloud Managed Development/Services such as Google Cloud Storage
3. 5+ years of experience in using Infrastructure as Code tooling like Terraform
4. 5+ years of experience with development languages (Go, Python, etc.)
5. 5+ years of experience with container-based technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
6. 5+ years of experience in the use of CI/CD Tools
7. In-depth understanding of different database technologies (e.g., CloudSQL, NoSQL, Relational databases)
8. Comprehensive understanding of software development lifecycle and release process
9. 5+ years of experience with config management tools and scripting languages (Ansible, Bash, Groovy)
10. Experience in managing teams and good interpersonal skills for working with cross-cutting teams.
11. Google Cloud Architect certification will be a strong asset.
12. Experience in managing and supporting platforms and applications with a large user base is mandatory.
13. Team player with effective communication skills (verbal and written)
14. Able to see tasks through to completion without significant guidance
15. Self-managed and results-oriented with a sense of ownership is required
16. A university degree in Mathematics, Science, Engineering, Management or relevant.

What's in it for you?

1. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship
2. Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations
3. Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
4. Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days, and benefits will start on day one.
5. Community Engagement opportunities.
6. Work arrangements: Hybrid

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Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families, and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products, and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.