Northpoint- Cloud Engineer - En

Backed by Laurentian Bank

With Northpoint's foundation and reputation in the industry built, Laurentian Bank, which has been in business for over 170 years, acquired Northpoint Financial in 2017. With over $45 billion* in assets, a solid cultural alignment and variety of financing solutions, Laurentian Bank ensures stability for the foreseeable future while allowing Northpoint Financial to maintain its personal, flexible approach.

Northpoint Commercial Finance offers businesses across North America personal, flexible financing options such as inventory finance and asset-based lending to support their business growth needs.

This role sits within Northpoint Commercial Finance. Northpoint Commercial Finance, a subsidiary of Laurentian Bank of Canada, provides expert, flexible and personal inventory financing to dealers and manufacturers across the U.S. and Canada.

Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Infrastructure & Operations, the incumbent will support and streamline the migration and operation of various infrastructure workloads to the public cloud environment. The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will participate in the setup of the vital infrastructure to support the bank's continued growth. This role's contributions to the team will help guide design decisions and implement tooling and technologies to help with both migration, maintenance, and ongoing support of the bank's public cloud environments. This role operates in a mixed of in‑house and outsourced IT services environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide recommendations to the IT leadership regarding suggested investments and service changes, including lifecycle management.
• Helps establish and monitors key performance indicators, taking effective action where results are below internal and vendor SLA targets.
• Assist in the engineering and implementation of reliable, scalable, cost effective and secure application environments using public cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Follow standard cloud practices to create the right cost governance framework
• Support cost management and reporting setups. This will include analyzing trends, understanding spend patterns, creating reports, dashboards, alerts, anomaly detection
• Ensures that effective ITIL based best practices are maintained for interactions with support vendors.
• Resolve system incidents where applicable and execute maintenance and support of the infrastructure environment through change management procedures defined by the organization.
• Create trends, forecast reports to create awareness about spend anomalies
• Build automation tools to streamline and manage and scale applications, platform, and infrastructure services
• Participate of business and IT projects.
• Take proactive role in project scoping, planning, design, and development to drive successful solution delivery.
• Work within a cross functional team to engineer, implement and manage cloud services and solutions at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience managing or delivering IT services and operations in a mixed managed environment. including both in house and outsourced managed services environments.
• 2+ years' experience designing, implementing, and operating solutions on a variety of IaaS/PaaS offerings, both public and private clouds at a massive scale (Azure preferred)
• 2+ years' experience managing both Windows and UNIX/Linux environments at scale.
• 2+ years' experience with automation/configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Go).
• Bilingualism (English/French) communication skills are an asset.
• Experience in a 24x7 operating environment.
• University Degree in a technical or business related discipline and 6 10 years of related experience or
• College Diploma in a technical or business related discipline and 9 12 years of related experience.
• 2+ years' experience managing container environments.
• Experience applying ITIL best practices is an asset.
• Knowledge of and demonstrated ability in core competencies including leadership, , teamwork, adaptability, problem solving, judgement and decision making.
• Cloud environment migration & management experience
• Knowledge of best practices in an always up, always available, customer orientated SaaS service.
• 2+ years' experience using continuous integration build and test tools (Jenkins, TravisCI, CircleCI).
• 2+ years' experience hardening and securing SaaS environments.

Other

• On call availability.
• After hours and weekend implementations management and coordination

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible work environment that reflects the diversity of our customers and our communities. We welcome and encourage applications from individuals from all groups, including Indigenous people, women, visible minorities, and persons with disabilities, regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability or any other legally-protected ground.

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