Cloud engineer Jobs in St. Albert, AB

Imagine yourself as part of one of the most dynamic companies in the healthcare technology industry today! QHR Technologies, a Loblaw Company, is leading the way in Canadian healthcare technology, by providing solutions that enrich healthcare professionals’ practices and improve the quality of care delivered to all Canadians across the country. We are looking for talented, inspired, and motivated people to join our incredible team and experience a workplace culture that stands above the rest! Competitive salaries and generous perks are just a few of the reasons that QHR has been voted one of BC's Top Employers and Canada’s Top Small & Medium Employers for many years running.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Team Lead of Cloud Services, the Cloud Systems Administrator acts as a subject matter expert (SME) on various QHR-supported cloud services and tools, as well as providing user support and the administration of QHR defined guardrails for safe, secure, and stable cloud operations.

Essential Functions

• Performing various tactical tasks within the Cloud Team such as (but not limited to):Provide and maintain cloud resources for QHR teams via infrastructure as and manage RBAC permissions and roles, assisting other teams with account and access QHR teams in troubleshooting cloud application and infrastructure to service tickets, incidents, and problems in a timely different QHR teams working on Cloud projects.
• Billing optimization and monitoring:Monitor billing usage across all aspects of the budgets within Azure with alerting thresholds and dashboards as budget threshold alerts and take appropriate utilization dashboards and reports to with forecasting cloud spending and cloud resource capacity that adequate tagging and categorizing of cloud resources are defined, maintained, and adhered Azure invoices from George Weston Limited to validate QHR cloud spending.
• Create and provide documentation:Develop and document processes and procedures for using cloud documentation to be used by the QHR teams to allow easier delegation of tactical diagrams to document cloud-based as-built solutions.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as codeand automation scripts:Script in various languages to automate infrastructure as code developed by Terraform and Terragrunt configuration to create, maintain, and destroy new infrastructure as code all scripts are version controlled and maintained in a source control scripts are simple to use and understand and resources to leverage the elasticity of cloud resources to optimize cost and the script repository.
• Monitor alerts, reports, and other metrics and alarms:Respond as an escalation point for alerts and issues for Cloud infrastructure and , maintain, and monitor dashboards that represent the health of the QHR cloud landscape.
• Enforce Cloud governanceDefine and implement policies via infrastructure as code to support QHR compliance, standards, and monitoring Azure Cloud Advisor recommendations and work with appropriate stakeholders to remediate any , remediate, and report on Azure Security Center events for policy and compliance, resource security hygiene, and advanced cloud defence.

Additional Duties and Expectations

• Promote QHR’s Blue Culture framework to foster a collaborative, positive and efficient workplace.
• Contribute to the organization’s positive image both internally and externally.
• Perform other duties consistent with the position, as reasonably directed by your manager.

What You Will Need

• 2+ years experience working with Microsoft Azure or other cloud services
• 5+ years relevant IT experience
• Experience creating Infrastructure as Code with technologies such as: Azure CLI, PowerShell, Terraform, Terragrunt, Azure automation, and others
• Strong understanding of Azure technologies and concepts such as Azure Kubernetes Service, Service Bus, Application Gateway, API Management, Virtual Networks, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, etc.
• Azure DevOps projects and pipeline creation and management
• Azure Automation and runbooks
• Experience with Azure Monitor and Azure Advisor
• Experience with Git and GitHub tooling and workflows
• Solid Microsoft Entra ID knowledge
• DevOps experience is an asset utilizing tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, Azure DevOps administration, etc.
• Experience with various IT technologies such as operating systems (Linux, Windows), networking, storage, etc.
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Can work independently and as part of a team
• Relevant Azure Certification
• Relevant IT/Computer Engineering degree or diploma

Compensation and Logistics:

• Base salary, variable bonus established at the corporate level, competitive benefits packageHiring Range: $80,000 - $110,000 annualFinal pay for this position may depend on candidate knowledge, skills, experience and location
• Full-time, permanent