Specialist, Cloud Engineering (GCP)

Our culture lifts you up—there is no ego in the way. Our common purpose? We all want to win for our customers. We aim to always be evolving, dynamic, and ambitious. We believe in the power of genuine connections. Each employee is a part of what makes us unique on the market: agile and dedicated.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Drive technical direction of cloud solutions aligned with cloud strategy 

• Compile, develop, and deliver architectural guardrails; influence stakeholders and ensure compliance with guardrails

• Responsible to build services to effectively provision, install/ configure cloud infrastructure and lead infrastructure as code

• Provide guidance on new tools and techniques to increase performance, automation, agility and scalability 

• Partner with delivery teams to help build CI/CD pipelines 

• Service management - enable teams logging, monitoring, alerting, auditing and reporting on service platforms 

• Partner with application teams to design and implement codified stacks that meet their needs

• Research, analyse, recommend and select technical approaches for solving difficult and challenging development and integration problems

• Operations management - Identity and access management (IAM) and asset management

• Support cost management reporting - assist the tracking and reporting on the financial performance of cloud initiatives to ensure they are creating desired value. Advisory on project costing / budgeting

• Provide up-to-date information on all GCP services, and advise on how to solve business use cases and support technology-led innovation 

• Partner with technology teams to apply security, and governance requirements and best practices are implemented in the cloud environment

• Oversee establishment and maintenance of appropriate standards for cloud services and definition of processes and guidelines 

ACADEMIC TRAINING: 

• University Degree in a related area  preferred

SKILLS & EXPERTISE (must have): 

• 5+ years experience in IT Infrastructure Operations with a min of 3 years of experience with public clouds (GCP, Azure, AWS, OCI) 

• Infrastructure as code expertise (ex. Terraform, GCloud) 

• Expertise with coding & scripting languages (ex. Python, Bash, Git, Bitbucket) 

• Experience with tooling to support monitoring, telemetry, logging, reporting/dashboarding, and continuous delivery technologies

• Understanding of automation practices throughout the development, build, and deployment phases of the application lifecycle

• System engineering in cloud-based architecture (including solution design and infrastructure core services) 

• Experience with Dev & SecOps and secure coding practices, including data security and privacy 

SKILLS & EXPERTISE (nice to have): 

• GCP certification(s)

• Information security certification(s) 

• Comprehensive understanding of key technological concepts such as IT architecture, Cloud technologies, applications, network infrastructure, and security is strongly preferred

• Experience with incident management and on call support

• Development/automation experience including installation, deployment and update of enterprise systems 

• Experience operating in agile environment using Jira (scrum/kanban/mvp) 

• Process definition and improvement expertise 

• Containerization experience (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes (GKE))

• Serverless experience (Cloudrun, Pub/Sub)

• Build orchestration (e.g. Cloud Build, Jenkins)

At Cogeco, we know that different backgrounds, perspectives, and beliefs can bring critical value to our business. The strength of this diversity enhances our ability to imagine, innovate, and grow as a company. So, we are committed to doing everything in our power to create a more diverse and inclusive world of belonging.

By creating a culture where all our colleagues can bring their best selves to work, we’re doing our part to build a more equitable workplace and world. From professional development to personal safety, Cogeco constantly strives to create an environment that welcomes and nurtures all. We make the health and well-being of our colleagues one of our highest priorities, for we know engaged and appreciated employees equate to a better overall experience for our customers.

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