Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Questrade Financial Group

$120K — $140K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Deep understanding of Cloud computing concepts including public, private, and hybrid cloud models.
  • Understanding of Cloud Security aspects such as IAM Roles, Security Groups, and Encryption keys.
  • Experience with at least one major public cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Hands-on expertise with container technologies, particularly Docker and Kubernetes, with GKE as a plus.
  • Knowledgeable in CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation methodologies.
  • Proficient in writing clean code in languages like Python, Golang, or Bash.
  • Familiar with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.

Responsibilities

  • Champion production-quality standards by creating advanced cloud infrastructure with Infrastructure-as-Code.
  • Maintain and enhance self-service cloud infrastructure tooling and CI/CD pipelines for internal developers.
  • Design and facilitate organizational improvements to support automation and DevSecOps practices.
  • Provide guidance and coaching to team members on relevant technologies and processes.
  • Lead technical discussions for designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting cloud-native applications.
  • Develop strategies to optimize resource usage and reduce costs in cloud environments.
  • Assist engineering teams in developing and releasing scalable, resilient cloud-native applications efficiently.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits plan.
  • Incentive bonus program for full-time permanent roles.
Full Job Description
We're looking for our next Senior Cloud Platform Engineer. Could It Be You?

The Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer is part of the team that implements core infrastructure components, CI/CD pipelines and tooling that powers Questrade Cloud Platform to deliver self-servicing capabilities to our Engineer teams to onboard and operationalize cloud-native applications. Some of these components include container orchestration platforms (Google Kubernetes Engine), Service Mesh (Istio), container provisioning engines, configuration and secrets management, stand up / provisioning Terraform modules and others.

In this role, you will collaborate with the project and the architecture teams to influence the design and delivery of our footprint, shape Questrade's cloud roadmap to deliver against the existing and future needs of the business, and build pipelines and tools to deliver cloud platform components and services for the broad enterprise.

Need more details? Keep reading...

You will:
  • Champion "Production Quality" and create cutting edge cloud infrastructure through Infrastructure-as-Code and automation.
  • Maintain and expand cloud infrastructure self-service tooling and Cloud Native Application CI/CD Pipeline that powers our internal platform used by hundreds of developers
  • Design, propose, facilitate organizational and process improvements as needed for supporting automation and DevSecOps
  • Provide expertise, direction, coaching and training to other team members on technologies and processes; drive education and knowledge transfer of design patterns, technical practices, and relevant technologies and tools
  • Lead and participate in technical discussions to aid system design, analysis, and troubleshooting cloud-native applications
  • Recommend strategies to drive down cost and improve efficiencies with supported vendor software and written code to ensure optimal use of available resources.
  • Help engineering teams to develop, test, debug and release scalable, resilient and highly available cloud-native applications quickly.


So are YOU our next Senior Cloud Platform Engineer? You are if you have...
  • Deep understanding of Cloud computing concepts and solutions including public, private, hybrid cloud.
  • A good understanding of Cloud Security, specifically IAM Roles & Policies, Security Groups and Encryption keys
  • Demonstrated experience supporting at least one of the predominant public clouds (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Advanced knowledge and understanding, and hands-on experience with container technologies, like Docker runtime and Kubernetes orchestration. Experience with Google Kubernetes Engine is nice to have.
  • Advanced knowledge and understanding CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
  • Ability to write clean code in at least one language (i.e Python, Golang, Bash etc.)
  • Experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Cloud Deployment Manager.
  • Exposure or familiarity to Linux Operating system administration and a good understanding of Linux fundamentals like signals, scheduling, filesystems
  • Strong TCP/IP networking knowledge in either cloud or on-prem deployments: DNS, network, routing, L3/L7 protocols etc.
  • Advanced experience in building systems in a microservice environment. Understanding the building blocks of a resilient and scalable software.
  • Experience leading projects.

Compensation Information:
  • Base salary range: $120,000 - $140,000
  • The final compensation package will be commensurate with the successful candidate's experience, skills, and geographic location (Canada). It includes a comprehensive benefits plan and a competitive incentive (bonus) program for Full-Time Permanent roles.


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