Reason:
• To work on solutions involving VM’s, Databases and Storage for the Cloud Acceleration Program.
Story Behind the Need:
• Business group: Cloud Engineering-The Bank 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.
• Project: Cloud Acceleration Program-moving towards Google Cloud, team will be focusing on virtual learning machines in the Cloud, initiative to move virtual machines to GCVE/GCE Environments
Typical Day in Role:
• Senior: Own the task through to being done and discuss task with stakeholders, discuss options for technologies; pros cons and alternatives; key indecision making
• Key accountabilities include managing, development and maintenance of cloud platforms, services, and components to enable safe enterprise-wide use of public cloud offerings
• Technical ownership/leadership of a component of a larger product.
• Managing, implementing, and refactoring code (Go, Python, etc).
• Ensuring software, programs and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity and reliability, security, and compliance requirements.
• Working with other engineers and architects on breaking-down, scoping and estimating tasks.
• Working with application teams for successful onboarding onto the Platform
• Participating in planning and retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.
• Be able to build and operate the highly available and scalable software and infrastructure.
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
• 5+ years of experience with Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure), with at least 1+ year recent experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• [need at least 1 of these 3 requirements]:
o 5+ years of experience with database technologies (SQL, Cloud SQL, MySQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, GCP/Azure Database Technologies
OR
o 5+ years of experience with Cloud Managed Development/Services such as Google Cloud Storage
OR
o 5+ years of experience with virtualized environments (VMWare, Virtual Servers)
• 5+ years of experience with container-based technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• 1+ years of experience with development languages (Go, Python, etc.)
• 1+ years of experience with config management tools and Scripting Languages (Ansible, Bash, Groovy)
Nice-To-Have Skills:
• 5+ years of experience in using Infrastructure as Code tooling Like Terraform.
• 5+ years of experience in the use of CI/CD Tools
• Experience with Cloud Native Platforms, particularly Kubernetes, and associated technologies (e.g., Istio, Envoy, Anthos, Kustomize)
• Unix administration skills
Soft Skills Required:
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Passion for driving teams towards high performance and a deep pride in quality craftsmanship.
• Able to communicate with internal stakeholders on a call
Best VS. Average Candidate:
• Virtualization/Virtual Machine knowledge; strong experience with cloud technologies in relation to storage technologies or cloud database and virtualization
• Cloud platforms, technologies, methodologies, with focus on history of virtual machines and virtualized servers, and focus on GCP and all GCP Products service offerings and technologies; focus on virtualized environments; “must is experience with containerization with Docker or databases or storage
Candidate Review & Selection:
• 2 rounds:
o 1-video MS Teams-technical interview with team (2-3 team members)-1 hour-may involve a codility test (2 questions)
o 2-culture fit with HM and 1 more-in person ideally-30 mins
Job Details
12126
Contract
1 year
Toronto