Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure)

Embark on a journey with one of Canada's fastest growing companies welcome to goeasy! We have been honored with recognitions such as Waterstone Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures , the 2022 Report on Business Women Lead Here , Report on Business for Canada’s Top Growing Companies and TSX30 as one of the best performing companies on the TSX .

We've also received the Greater Toronto Top Employers Award and certified as a Great Place to Work® . We're on the lookout for the best and brightest to join our team!

Our vision is to provide everyday Canadians a path to a better tomorrow, today. As one of Canada’s leading non-prime consumer lenders, we offer a full suite of products including non-prime leasing, unsecured and secured loans as well as point-of-sale-financing though easyhome, easyfinancial, and LendCare.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering, goeasy is seeking a high performing Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure) at our Mississauga Head Office.

You will help build out, maintain, and troubleshoot our rapidly expanding infrastructure and network. You will be part of a talented team of engineers, who are mainly focused on Infrastructure.

This job consists of both Azure Infrastructure and Network management.

What will you be doing?

• Architect and design improvements or new solutions in Microsoft Azure and alternate cloud environment.
• Work within a cross-functional team of Cloud Engineers, App Admins, Data Engineers DBA’s and DevOps teams to specify, design, develop, test, and implement cloud services and solutions.
• Provide guidance and knowledge to team members, and promote efficiency, productivity, innovations, and knowledge-sharing across multi-functional teams.
• Lead DevOps initiatives to streamline environment deployment and maintenance.
• Support the data solutions team in their operations and projects.
• Regularly evaluate cloud applications, designs, and best practices.
• Work closely with internal business partners to gather requirements, design and implement solutions, manage technical operations, and triage and resolve operational issues.
• Work with internal architecture, infrastructure, governance, and security teams to ensure that all security, governance and business continuity requirements and best practices are integrated and implemented.
• Continuously improve the triage and escalation process for system availability.
• Developing and maintaining documentation for multiple environments.
• Identify repetitive tasks and build tools and / or processes for automation.
• Research and maintain up-to-date knowledge of current technology trends and best practices.
• Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
• Assist in providing estimates of effort, material costs, etc.
• Other duties as assigned.

What experience do you have?

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination education and related experience.
• 5+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure Operations with a minimum of 3 years of experience in Azure.
• Experience administering Active Directory and Entra ID (Azure AD).
• Scripting and coding skills , Azure CLI, Python.
• Extensive experience in DevOps practices, with hands on with Git and Azure DevOps.
• Infrastructure as code (IaC) experience, preferably with Terraform.
• Expertise in Azure Data Solutions, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Databricks, and Data Lake.
• Good knowledge of core cloud services such as VMs, Containers, App Services, Virtual Networks, NSGs, Application Gateways, Load balancers and Storage accounts.
• Comprehensive understanding of key technological concepts such as IT architecture, Cloud technologies, applications, network infrastructure, and security is strongly preferred.
• Ability to demonstrate solid analysis, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Hands-on experience to install, configure, test, and deploy enterprise and multi-cloud network infrastructure.
• Good understanding of Agile / Lean principles such as Scrum, Kanban, MVP etc.
• Experience managing vendor-provided services including outsourcing arrangements.
• Experience working within a structured process methodology ().
• Strong systems aptitude demonstrated project management and planning skills; balanced strategic skills with tactical execution skills.

We offer a Flexible Work Program that provides you the ability to work three days onsite per week , between our Mississauga and downtown Toronto office.

Internal Applicants : please apply through the link and provide written endorsement from your current manager.