Container Platforms Advisor

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Our employee promise represents Intact’s commitment to you in exchange for living our Values, striving to do your best work, being open to change and investing in your career. In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us.

Pay at Intact is about much more than just salary.

• Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model

• Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year

• Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more

• Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)

Salary range (but not limited to):

Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance):

As part of our commitment to Win As A Team, we share our success with employees through our annual bonus plan and Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) – with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.

Our pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers. We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.

Salary for the candidate will be determined taking into consideration a number of factors including: experience, skills, qualifications, anticipated contribution to role, internal equity, etc. The salary range presented above is based on a 35-hour workweek and would represent a majority of different candidate profiles. However, we encourage candidates who may fall outside of this range to apply as well.

About the role

We are looking for a Container Platforms Advisor to join our growing team!

In this role, you will be responsible for the integration and operation of our containerized infrastructure.  The work of this team helps to ensure the integrity, efficiency and excellence of our IT systems so people can effortlessly leverage technology to do their work well.

What you’ll do here:

• Design, deploy and manage Google K8s engine (GKE) multi-cluster environments in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Manage and support our container infrastructure based on OpenShift Container Platform and ROSA.
• Collaborate with architects, platform specialists, and developers in agile teams accelerating cloud adoption and migration.
• Guide best practices for containerization, scalability, and reliability.
• Develop robust pipelines to automate cluster, tools deployments and lifecycle management.
• Work as part of the Operations squad to manage incidents, requests, and changes.
• Monitor performance and availability of the platform.
• 24/7 Production support as part of an on-call support team (rotation).

What you bring to the table:

• Undergraduate degree in computer science or any combination of equivalent education and experience.
• Experience in Google K8s engine (GKE) is a must.
• Experience in OpenShift Container Platform/ ROSA will be an asset.
• Strong understanding of K8s components such as network policies, cluster roles, services, deployments etc.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools: Terraform, GitOps, Ansible.

• Experience supporting GCP services such as BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud DNS, Apigee would be valuable.
• Familiarity of monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
• Experience with Agile software development and release engineering (branching, versioning, tagging) with tools such as GitHub.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Certifications in Kubernetes, Cloud and Terraform is an asset.
• For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English speaking colleagues across the country. 
• No Canadian work experience required however must be eligible to work in Canada 

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We are an equal opportunity employer

At Intact, our Value of respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength. We strive to create an accessible workplace where employees feel valued, included and encouraged to share their unique perspectives.

We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

As part of Intact’s commitment to reconciliation, we acknowledge that we work, meet and travel across the land currently called Canada, originally inhabited by First Nations, Metis and Inuit people. This history extends through many centuries and continues to evolve today.

We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations). A copy of applicable policies is available on request.

If we can provide a specific adjustment to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please let us know when we reach out about a job opportunity. We’ll work with you to meet your needs.

Learn more about our recruitment process and your candidate journey here.

Please note that Intact does not provide sponsorship or other support for immigration-related matters including but not limited to employer-specific closed work permits. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada from the anticipated start date and throughout their employment and are solely responsible for maintaining their work eligibility.

If you are an employee of Intact or belairdirect, please apply for this role on Internal Career Site.