Staff Engineer, Cloud Engineering

<p><strong>Join a Challenger<br><br></strong>At EQ, we're remaking banking so every Canadian gets ahead, every day. Serving nearly 4 million Canadians from coast to coast, we offer a wide variety of financial services from banking and lending, to trust and credit union solutions.&nbsp;<br><br>We've been at this since 1970, challenging the conventions of traditional banking with smarter, faster, and more connected financial experiences.<br><br><strong>What's kept us moving?&nbsp; </strong>The people behind it all: challengers who ask better questions, push back on old assumptions, and look for a better way forward.<br><br>If you're driven to help reshape how banking works for Canadians and the businesses that power our economy, this could be your next big opportunity.&nbsp;<br><br>We can’t wait to get to know you!&nbsp;</p><br>The Work

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<p>As a&nbsp;Staff Cloud Engineer, you will serve as a senior technical expert supporting EQ Bank’s Microsoft cloud platforms with a focus on&nbsp;Power Platform (30%),&nbsp;Azure Cloud Engineering (30%),&nbsp;AKS and DevOps Enablement (20%), and&nbsp;Platform Process Improvement (20%). Reporting to the Director, Cloud Operations, you will design, implement, and improve reusable platform capabilities that empower both professional and citizen developers across the bank.&nbsp;</p>

<p>You will work hands-on with Azure services, PaaS workloads, Kubernetes, and DevOps toolchains, while also contributing to Power Platform governance and lifecycle enablement. As a technical leader, you’ll collaborate with engineering, security, operations, and business stakeholders to drive platform maturity, automation, scalability, and compliance across our cloud environments.</p>

The Core Responsibilities!

<p><strong>Cloud Platform Engineering &amp; Operations (30%)&nbsp;</strong></p>

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<p>Design, build, and optimize Azure platform components including App Services, Azure Functions, Key Vaults, and API Management.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or Bicep for scalable and secure resource provisioning.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Implement observability patterns across infrastructure and workloads using tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Collaborate with architecture, security, and operations teams to ensure platforms meet SLAs, DR/RTO requirements, and compliance expectations.&nbsp;</p>

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<p><strong>Power Platform Enablement (30%)&nbsp;</strong></p>

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<p>Develop and maintain automation for Power Platform lifecycle management, including ALM pipelines and environment provisioning.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Implement data loss prevention (DLP) policies, app usage reporting, and licensing optimization for Power Platform components.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Collaborate with Governance and Security teams to establish safe, compliant citizen development frameworks.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Provide technical guidance to Power Platform users and support solution acceleration across the organization.&nbsp;</p>

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<p><strong>AKS Platform &amp; DevOps Practices (20%)&nbsp;</strong></p>

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<p>Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps to deploy containerized workloads into AKS.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Implement secure AKS architectures, including ingress, autoscaling, monitoring, and security controls.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Enable&nbsp;GitOps&nbsp;patterns and promote modern deployment practices in collaboration with product engineering teams.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Contribute to&nbsp;DevSecOps&nbsp;initiatives and embed security, performance, and resiliency into deployment pipelines.&nbsp;</p>

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<p><strong>Platform Process &amp; Maturity Improvements (20%)&nbsp;</strong></p>

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<p>Lead initiatives to improve cloud platform operational processes, including incident management, platform health, and self-service enablement.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Define platform engineering standards and reusable blueprints to reduce manual effort and increase team efficiency.</p></li></ul>