Senior Cloud Engineer (Vancouver Hub)

Requisition ID: 166288

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

About The Role

Scotiabank has embarked on the journey to modernize both development practices and tools. One of the main areas of transformation is the public cloud and the various platform technologies that support both development and operations on the cloud. The aim is to provide a streamlined process and framework which will allow the development teams to focus on building business logic. We are looking to build our development team with influencer, makers, creators and industry leaders who will drive us forward.

The role of the Senior Cloud Engineer operates within the Cloud Engineering team. This valuable member of the team will be responsible for creating platform components and services for the broad enterprise use.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:

• Working with other lead engineers and architects on designing solutions and breaking-down, scoping, and estimating tasks.
• Ensuring software, programs, and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity, and reliability requirements.
• Participating in design discussions focused on scalability, design, and implementation best practices.
• Level 3 support responsibilities are required.
• Participate in planning and retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.
• Be able to build and operate the highly available and scalable software and infrastructure.
• Mentorship of junior cloud engineers.
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• Our teams are flexible and fast requiring daily peer review and quality control.
• Designing, implementing, and refactoring code.
• Key accountabilities include development, management, and maintenance of cloud platforms, services, and components to enable safe enterprise-wide use of common cloud functionality.
• Technical ownership/leadership of enterprise cloud product(s) or a complex part of a larger product including the design, software, and processes necessary for ongoing operations.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role.

• Ability to solve ambiguous and typically novel problems that require the effort of several engineers.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerized applications, or Terraform is a benefit.
• Experience working with relational databases.
• Passion for driving teams towards high performance and a deep pride in quality craftsmanship that delights users.
• Strong development experience, delivery history, and breadth of language experience (e.g. Java, Python).
• Attention to details, high standards for quality.
• Writing and maintaining related documentation.
• Understanding of software release process (environments, binary repositories, CI/CD).
• Awareness of design for scalable, enterprise-level software system (both on code and infrastructure levels).
• Strong communication skills, both written and spoken; of specific importance is strong communication to a technical audience.
• Sufficient domain expertise in cloud platform features and capabilities.
• Desire to learn, grow yourself and your team.
• 5+ years’ relevant work experience
• Proven experience in cloud development (Google GCP, Microsoft Azure).
• Experience within Canadian financial institutions a benefit.
• Full stack experience in product development.
• Knowledge of software design patterns, infrastructure architecture, DevOps, and security considerations.
• Full understanding of software development life cycle as well as related technologies.
• Enthusiasm for cloud transformation and cloud platform/components/services development.
• Experience in technical leadership of small sized technical teams in delivering production solutions.
• Experience in delivering enterprise systems collaborating and driving solutions with multiple teams across the organization.
• Expert in either a modern technology stack, building platforms, or in Scotiabank’s legacy systems.
• Investigating, analyzing, and resolving system problems.

What’s in it for you?

• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity and curiosity and celebrates success!
• We provide you with the tools and technology needed to create meaningful customer experiences
• You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world

Location(s): Canada : British Columbia : Vancouver