Staff Engineer, Cloud Engineering
EQ Bank | Canada6 months ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize Azure platform components such as App Services, Azure Functions, Key Vaults, and API Management.
- Develop Terraform or Bicep infrastructure-as-code for scalable and secure resource provisioning.
- Implement observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
- Develop Power Platform lifecycle automation, ALM pipelines, environment provisioning, DLP policies, usage reporting, and licensing optimization.
- Design and maintain GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps pipelines for deploying containerized workloads to AKS.
- Implement secure AKS architectures with ingress, autoscaling, monitoring, and security controls.
- Lead cloud platform process improvements covering incident management, platform health, self-service enablement, reusable standards, blueprints, and FinOps.
- Collaborate with engineering, security, operations, architecture, governance, and business stakeholders while promoting documentation, workshops, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering roles in enterprise environments.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Azure, PaaS services, Power Platform, and AKS.
- Strong experience with Terraform or Bicep, CI/CD pipelines, and Git-based workflows.
- Strong background in cloud solution architecture and low-level design documentation.
- Practical understanding of DevOps and SRE practices, including automation, observability, and incident response.
- Experience with Power Platform governance, including DLP, ALM, monitoring, and citizen development enablement.
- Experience designing secure and scalable AKS workloads and containerized platform services.
- Proficiency with scripting languages such as PowerShell and Bash, plus YAML- and JSON-based configurations.
- Post-secondary education, preferably in technology; GCP knowledge is an asset.
- Strong collaboration, documentation, and cross-functional communication skills.
Benefits
- Competitive discretionary bonus, RRSP match, medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
- Employee Share Purchase Plan, maternity/parental top-up, generous vacation policy, and personal days.
- Virtual colleague events and professional development through a comprehensive Career Development program.
- Hybrid work arrangement with in-office time at EQ Bank’s additional office space at 2200-25 Ontario Street, Toronto, Ontario.
- Candidates must successfully complete a criminal background check and credit check; accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process.
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About EQ Bank | Canada
EQ Bank is the digital banking platform of Equitable Bank (EQB Inc., TSX: EQB), headquartered in Toronto. It provides consumer online banking such as savings accounts, GICs, and payments, and connects to Equitable Bank’s broader mortgage, lending, and trust services for individuals and businesses. Equitable Bank, founded in 1970, is Canada’s seventh-largest Schedule I bank by assets and serves nearly 4 million customers nationwide.