Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

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Xplore Inc. is Canada's fibre, 5G and satellite broadband company for rural living. Xplore is committed to the relentless pursuit of an improved broadband experience for all Canadians. Xplore is building a world‑class fibre optic and 5G wireless network to enable innovative broadband services for better everyday rural living, for today and future generations.

We are seeking a hands‑on Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to design, build, secure, and operate scalable Microsoft Azure platforms. This role blends technical leadership, cloud architecture ownership, and cross‑functional collaboration to modernize workloads, lead migrations, and raise platform engineering maturity across subscriptions and landing zones.

Key Responsibilities Will Include

• Architect and deliver secure, highly available Azure solutions including VMs, AKS, App Services, and serverless patterns.
• Design and maintain enterprise landing zones, subscription structure, and network topology to support scale and governance.
• Lead migrations from on‑premises and other cloud providers : assess, plan, create runbooks, execute cutovers, and validate outcomes.
• Automate infrastructure using IaC (Terraform, Bicep, ARM), and build CI / CD pipelines with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Operate production platforms with ownership for monitoring, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and post‑incident RCA.
• Enforce security and governance through Azure AD, RBAC, Key Vault, network segmentation, encryption, policies, and compliance controls.
• Optimize cost and performance across subscriptions and resource groups through tagging, rightsizing, and cost management practices.
• Coach and mentor platform engineers, lead architecture reviews, define standards, and maintain clear documentation and runbooks.

An Ideal Candidate Will Possess

Condition Of Employment

As a condition of employment and in order to comply with industry related data security standards, this position is subject to the successful completion of a Criminal Background Check. Details will be supplied to applicants as they move through the selection process.

Xplore is committed to creating an accessible environment and will accommodate disabilities during the selection process. Please let your recruiter know during the selection process of any accommodation needs.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Telecommunications

Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

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