Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure)

at  Goeasy

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 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 – i.e. PowerShell, 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 (i.e. ITIL).
• 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.

• 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.