Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Overview

At CI, we look for a Cloud Platform Engineer to design and implement reusable frameworks, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and infrastructure automation using modern cloud‑native architecture and AWS services.

Responsibilities

• Build end‑to‑end cloud solutions using low‑level architecture documents.
• Collaborate with IT Infrastructure Specialists, Enterprise Architects, and Security to design and integrate cloud and on‑premises services.
• Lead infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques for large‑scale enterprise applications.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code delivery pipelines using CI/CD and DevOps tools.
• Understand the complete deployment lifecycle from design, build, test, to deploy.
• Design and deploy pipelines using Docker, ECS, and/or EKS.
• Provide expert hands‑on use of AWS technologies such as IAM, ECS, EKS, VPC, ELB, KMS, S3, CloudFront, RDS, AWS‑CLI.
• Work with large data sets and data lakes; support AWS Data Engineering technologies including Glue, EMR, Lake Formation, DMS, and Aurora Postgres.
• Practice DevOps (Expert Level) with Terraform, Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Artifactory, CloudFormation, Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket.
• Demonstrate knowledge of Web APIs, UIs, infrastructure, data architecture, security, and new technologies, including Cloud APIs, streaming, and metrics.
• Script with modern languages including PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Handle basic AWS tasks such as IAM roles, resource policies, S3 buckets, load balancers, and networking.
• Lead and educate clients on cloud deployment patterns.
• Act as SME for building infrastructure to support CI applications.
• Investigate and resolve integration issues arising during implementation.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience in software development or IT operations with at least 5 years in Cloud Engineering/DevOps.
• Proven knowledge of public cloud (AWS preferred) in IaaS/PaaS/Serverless.
• Experience deploying and managing containers and orchestrators (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong expertise in infrastructure and platform services automation.
• Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and Docker.
• Experience with industry‑leading CI/CD pipeline tools: Confluence, Jira, Rundeck, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Ansible, Terraform.
• Experience developing cloud migration patterns.
• Preferred experience in hybrid cloud environments.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, and PHP.
• Knowledge of infrastructure security and cloud security best practices.
• Experience in SAFe, Kanban, DevOps, or Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Knowledge of networking concepts.
• Prior IT experience in a financial institution is preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, or equivalent experience.
• Public cloud related certifications (AWS Architect, AWS DevOps, etc.).
• Technical proficiency with AWS resources (VPC, S3, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, EMR, Lambda, API Gateway, Data Lake, etc.), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), databases (MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Oracle), middleware (WebLogic, Tomcat, JBoss), operating systems (RHEL, AIX, Windows), CI/CD (Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Artifactory), JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Cloudflare, OKTA, ADFS, PHP, Node.js, React.js, Python.

Compensation

Base salary range: $69,500 – $119,500 (depending on experience, skills, education, and budget). Additional bonus program eligibility.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage, wellness programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans.
• Paid leave programs, education‑related programs, paid holidays, vacation time.
• Paid time off for volunteering.
• Modern headquarters location within walking distance from Union Station.
• Training reimbursement.
• Paid professional designations.
• Employee Savings Plan (ESP).
• Corporate discount program.
• Enhanced group benefits.
• Parental leave.
• Top‑up program.

EEO and Accommodations

CI Financial Corp. and all of our affiliates (“CI”) are committed to fair and accessible employment practices and provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities. If you require accommodations to apply or during the recruitment process, please contact accessible.recruitment@ci.com or call 416‑364‑1145 ext. 4747.

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