Cloud Engineer

J&M Group


Date: 5 hours ago
City: Toronto, ON
Contract type: Contractor
  • Help with and implement our Cloud Architectural Artifacts, Network, Firewall, Routing
  • Implementation level architecture for scalable IaC strategies (e.g. modularization etc)
  • Platform Vs Service level scaling practices
  • Contribute to and support our org wide Architecture Decision Records
  • Support the delivery and maintenance of our Cloud Policies, Procedures and Standards
  • Disaster Resiliency, Recovery and Availability Planning
  • IaC tooling, use and quality gating
  • Cloud technology stack/services consultancy and selection in accordance to technical and quality requirements (scalability, performance, security, compliance)
  • Support our Cloud Operational Practices
  • Cloud infrastructure TCO optimization and focus
  • Capacity planning by continuously monitoring utilized resources and demand trends
  • Evangelize for our needs with cloud service providers/vendors to ensure smooth operations and support.
  • Lead and ensure compliance with organizational security practices and auditing
  • Ensure maximal uptime of our infrastructure and services through monitoring, alerting, golden signals and on-call support
  • Drive best in class cloud strategies
  • Knowledge transfer, training, mentoring of cloud practices across the engineering org

Essential Skills

  • Proficiency in one or more major cloud platforms, such as Azure (preference), Google Cloud, AWS or others
  • Experience with modularized IaC (Infrastructure as Code) and industry tooling e.g. Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Packer
  • Configuration management, Secrets Management (Consul, Vault, KMS systems, Consul Template)
  • Operational concerns: Disaster Recovery, Disaster Resilience, Monitoring, Alerting
  • (ITSM) Change, Knowledge & Incident Management
  • Containerization technologies: Docker/Container, Kubernetes (K8S, K3S), container registries and artifact tools (e.g. Artifactory, GCR, ACR, ECR)
  • Administration of Kubernetes clusters
  • Understanding of microservices principles and best practices for designing scalable and modular architectures including API Gateway technologies and best practices
  • Understanding of event-driven architecture principles and best practices and tooling (e.g. Pub/Sub, Kafka etc)
  • Familiarity with serverless computing services and functions (e.g. Azure Functions, AWS Lambda etc).
  • Proficient in cloud networking concepts, including VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancing, Firewalling (including WAF), and security groups.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and security group configurations, SAST & DAST tooling (CrowdStrike, Qwiet.AI, Prisma Cloud etc)
  • Experience with cloud monitoring and logging tools like AWS CloudWatch, EFK/ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic etc
  • Knowledge of diagramming tools and methodologies (e.g. Miro, Diagrams.net, Figjam, Mermaid.JS etc)
  • Educated to Degree level in Computer Science or equivalent

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