Cloud Engineer - GCP, Hashicorp

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Hybrid (Downtown, Toronto)
Duration: Until May 30, 2025

Our client, a leading financial institution in Downtown Toronto, is looking for a Cloud Engineer - GCP, Hashicorp to work closely with the platform engineering team to design, build, and maintain cloud platforms. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.

Typical Day in Role:

• Participate in design discussions focused on scalability, design, and implementation best practices.
• Ensure software, programs, and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity, and reliability requirements.
• Participate in planning, retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.
• Support application teams on the use of the cloud platform, including providing guidance on design patterns, best practices, and security considerations.
• Design and manage Cloud Services - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) & Platform as a Service (PaaS).
• Detailed design & deployment of cloud services; the same in the design & implementation of automated delivery pipelines for the cloud services.
• Work with engineers and architects on breaking down, scoping, and estimating tasks.
• Proficient in providing Level 3 support for developed Cloud Services.
• Develop & document operational procedures for service operations teams.

Must-Have Skills:

• 3+ years of hands-on technical working experience in Cloud Services (Azure, AWS, GCP), with at least 1+ year with Google Cloud Platform.
• 2+ years of hands-on technical working experience in HashiCorp’s Terraform in implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) delivery pipelines e.g. Terraform modules, Terraform Cloud.
• 2+ years’ experience with Compute (Linux Virtual Machines, Disks, VM Manager, GCVE).
• 2+ years’ experience with Containerization (Docker, Google Kubernetes Engine).

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• 2+ years of hands-on technical working experience using Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Tools (e.g., GitHub Enterprise and/or Azure DevOps) for maintaining pipelines.
• 1+ years of experience with development languages (Python, Powershell, Go, etc.) – scripts in GCP written in Python, developed using CI/CD pipelines; from an Ops POV if issues with scripts, they should be able to resolve issues in scripts; Go is related to Kubernetes.
• 1+ years of hands-on technical working experience in the use of Configuration Management & Automation tools (e.g., Saltstack, Perforce’s Puppet and/or Red Hat Ansible and/or Progress Chef).
• 2+ years of hands-on technical working experience with Bash and/or Powershell to develop automation & deployment utilities.
• 2+ years’ experience with Storage Services (Persistent Disks, Backup and DR Service, Cloud Storage).

Soft Skills Required:

• Self-sufficient, works under the supervision of a more senior engineer.
• Strong communication skills, both written and spoken; of specific importance is the strong communication to a technical audience.
• Attention to detail, high standards for quality.
• Writing and maintaining related documentation.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (master’s degree preferred).

Finance professional is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. We advocate for you and welcome anyone regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.