Job Specifications
Job Requisition ID: 11774
Position Status: Permanent Full Time
Position Type: Hybrid
Office Location: Ottawa (ON); Calgary (AB); Halifax (NS); Montreal (QC); Toronto (ON); Vancouver (BC)
Travel Requirement: Limited
Language Designation: English Essential
Language Skill Levels (Read/Write/Speak): ZZZ
Security Requirement: Secret
Salary: Our salaries generally range from $ 101639.3 to $ 127049.13 and are based on qualifications and experience.
About CMHC
The work you do and the work we do together matters. We come to work every day with a common purpose: to contribute to a well-functioning housing system.
At CMHC, we hold ourselves accountable for our results and support our colleagues in their achievements. We thrive on collaboration, connecting across CMHC and involving the right people to get our work done. Our leadership style is guided by trust, where our leaders favour an adaptive approach based on the needs of their teams.
Join us and be part of a team that's committed to making a real difference and be part of something meaningful.
What’s in it for you
Benefits
We’ve got the purpose, the people and the perks you need for a fulfilling career. Here’s the comprehensive and generous benefits you get when you’re a permanent employee:
Annual Paid vacation.
Annual individual performance incentive.
Defined benefit pension plan.
Comprehensive group insurance plan to support your well-being from day one.
Support towards your personal and professional growth with training, mentorship and more.
An inclusive workplace culture and environment.
About The Role
Join the Technology and Business Transformation team in the Specialist, Cloud Infrastructure Operations Engineering position. In this position, you will be responsible for infrastructure, platform engineering, managing, monitoring, and optimizing cloud infrastructure services to ensure high availability, scalability, and security. This role involves collaborating closely with architecture, development, security, and IT teams to maintain robust cloud environments. This role is pivotal in enabling digital transformation and operational excellence by ensuring the reliability and security of cloud platforms that underpin core business applications.
What You Will Do
Participate in solution design in collaboration with the Enterprise Architecture team and deploy, configure, and maintain cloud resources (compute, storage, networking) across platforms suchs as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Implement and optimize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like ARM/Bicep, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible, ensuring automation, scalability, and reliability of cloud environments.
Provide strategic recommendations to infrastructure leadership for automating and streamlining cloud administration, wihle proactively sharing automation strategies, cloud administration techniques, and lessons learned with peers across IT, EA, Security, and leadership, to foster a culture of operational excellence and drive the adoption of modern cloud practices.
Advise infrastructure leadership on optimization and efficiency improvements for cloud infrastructure and processes, and mentor junior team members to foster a culture of learning and development.
Apply and enforce cloud security best practices —including IAM, encryption, compliance standards, and leasts privilege principles—by conducting regular audits of security settings and privileged accounts to maintain a hardened and compliant cloud environment.
Ensure operational and regulatory readiness by maintaining accountability for cloud service uptime, incident response performance, and compliance audit results, while logging and recording all security incidents and breaches in accordance with Canadian privacy legislation and OSFI breach notification and recordkeeping requirements.
Design and implement resilient cloud architectures in partnership with the Enterprise Architecture team, delivering self-optimizing and self-healing designs using Azure native capabilities, GitHub Actions, and automation tooling.
Industrialize operations through automation and DevOps by scripting routine tasks and workflows in Python, Bash, and PowerShell, and contributing to CI/CD pipelines for deployment and ongoing maintenance.
What You Should Have
An undergraduate degree in a related field such as information technology, computer science, or network engineering. An equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered.
A minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in cloud architecture, engineering, and operations.
An extensive experience with hybrid entity, cloud integration (Azure AD/EntraID), and multi-cloud governance.
An advanced expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and automation scripting (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Python, Bash, PowerShell) with a proven track record of designing, implementing, and optimizing automated cloud infrastructure and workflows across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
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