Sr. Consultant, Cloud Engineering

We’re building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world. We need talented, passionate professionals who are dedicated to doing what’s right for our clients.

At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered at work. Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute.

To learn more about CIBC, please visit CIBC.com

What You’ll Be Doing

You will be joining CIBC’s Infrastructure Technology team. As a Senior Consultant, Cloud Engineering you will bring experience specifically in working with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. This role is for you if you are passionate about building innovative solutions with new challenges and technologies while making an impact.

As a Senior Consultant, Cloud Engineering you will be responsible for providing technical recommendations and subject matter expertise to ensure stable, reliable production and non-production environments for complex sharing initiatives in compliance with established controls, standards, policies, and procedures. In this role, you will collaborate with and act as an advisor to the senior management, utilizing a solid understanding of business dynamics to analyze and protect production and non-production environment integrity and mitigate risks, present and recommend solutions using available resources for complex initiatives with key dependencies. You will provide technical leadership, interpreting complex information and coordinating client, provider, and vendor relationships to meet and manage service expectations, aligned to best practices. In addition, you will also participate in the development of the team to maximize individual contributions and professional growth, functioning effectively with colleagues.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (proportion of on-site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview.

How You’ll Succeed

• Leadership & Communication:

  • Provide technical leadership during the design, build, configuration, implementation and maintenance phases of major public and private Cloud technologies and automation tooling in a multi-platform environment.

  • Lead the evaluation, selection and implementation of new and emerging products and techniques; support the development of business/technology proposals by estimating implementation costs and evaluating options.

  • Collaborate with senior leaders across the company and make informed recommendations to enhance Cloud related solutions. Weigh business needs against technology of offerings, security concerns and provide recommendations which are practical and achievable.

• Governance:

  • Proactively contribute to governance initiatives in the development of company policies, audit requirements etc. Provide technical or business guidance to clients within and outside your own department.

• Engineering:

  • Provide automation expertise within core automation DevOps tool chain and orchestration expertise in Provisioning and Public Cloud.

  • Determine standards and roadmaps for hardware and software. Decide how infrastructure is built and recommends Cloud-based standards for organization wide initiatives based on area of expertise.

  • Conduct major studies regarding system usage, make recommendations for improvements, and determine infrastructure system requirements.

  • Design, develop and test emerging Cloud-based software solutions.

  • Provide ongoing analysis and evaluation of test plan, all additions and changes to ensure they are introduced in a manner that protects the integrity of the environment and mitigates risks.

  • Provide in-depth subject matter expertise to perform broad impact analysis, present alternative solutions, and make recommendations for complex initiatives and projects.

  • Work with the Enterprise Architecture team on identifying requirements and design for continuous evolution of Cloud-based solutions.

  • Manage clients, providers and vendor relationships to ensure service expectations are understood, managed and met.

  • Support both production and non-production Cloud platform environments and hosted applications.

  • Implement production and non-production changes to Cloud platforms and applications following established change management policies.

  • On-call rotation for after-hours support is required for this role.

  • Work onsite during our core days in the office.

Who You Are

• You can demonstrate minimum 6+ years' experience in design, implementation and support of technologies and technology-based solutions on Cloud platforms.

  • Experience with Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services, while additional experience in Google Cloud Platform is preferred.

  • Strong technical knowledge and subject matter expertise in Microsoft's Azure, ARM Templating, Azure DevOps Pipeline implementation of “infrastructure as code” deliveries, Role Based Access Control (RBAC), and monitoring/hardening/policing/templating/delivery of AWS and Azure Services will be essential.

  • Strong technical knowledge and subject matter expertise in AWS, multi-account Organizations, Control Tower, Cloud Formation implementation of “infrastructure as code”, as well as delivery of other AWS Services will be key to your success.

  • Proficiency with Python, Bicep, JSON and PowerShell scripting.

  • Experience with IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and network and security related solutions is required.

  • Proficient with tools such as ServiceNow, GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, and have expertise in Continuous Integration (CI)/ Continuous Delivery (CD).

  • Understanding of Waterfall and Agile delivery methodologies, terminologies and ceremonies.

  • Technical knowledge and subject matter expertise in Windows Server, Linux/Unix and Middleware tier.

  • Experience with Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, AWS Security Groups and Network ACLs, Direct Connect, and other network and security components of AWS would be considered as assets.

  • Experience with Azure Firewalls, ExpressRoute & IPSec Tunnels, Virtual WAN, WAF, Network Security Groups (NSG) and other network and security components of Azure will be valuable.

  • Technical knowledge in Google Cloud Platform engineering and administration will be an asset.

  • AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP certifications, as well as ITIL certifications would be considered as assets.

• You have strong knowledge of:

  • Systems Software Infrastructure - Knowledge of the existing and planned software technology and the global, regional and local software architecture and infrastructure components.

  • Hardware Infrastructure - Familiarity with hardware technology and the global, regional and local hardware architecture.

  • Technical Troubleshooting - Knowledge of approaches, tools and techniques for anticipating, recognizing, and resolving technical (hardware, software, application or operational) problems.

  • Consulting - Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques and roles and responsibilities in providing technical or business guidance to clients within and outside own area.

  • Computer Operations - Knowledge of the data center operating environment and day-to-day operational requirements.

• You are an excellent communicator - You have solid written and oral communication skills and an ability to produce a variety of business documents that demonstrate command of language, clarity of thought and orderliness of presentation as well as express oneself and communicate with others verbally; recognizing that verbal communication is more than just language - it includes tone, style and structure.

• You are a Problem Solver - You have knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems.

• You have ability to manage multiple priorities - Ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups or activities. Effective judgment in prioritizing and time allocation.

• You have strong interpersonal and relationship building skills - You have knowledge of approaches, tools and techniques for working with individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.

• You have decision making and critical thinking skill - You have knowledge of tools and techniques for effective use of a broad range of factors, assumptions, frameworks and perspectives when solving problems

• You are creative - You have knowledge of approaches, tools and techniques for promoting creative, original thinking and applying it to existing and emerging situations.

• You act like an owner - You thrive when you're empowered to take the lead, go above and beyond, and deliver results.

• You're digitally savvy - You seek out innovative solutions and embrace evolving technologies. You can easily adapt to new tools and trends.

• You look beyond the moment - You make decisions and take actions that will make a difference today and tomorrow. You proactively seek new opportunities to define what's possible.

• Values matter to you - You bring your real self to work and you live our values – trust, teamwork and accountability.

What CIBC Offers

At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck.

• We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program*, defined benefit pension plan*, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.

• Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.

• We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.

*Subject to plan and program terms and conditions

What you need to know

• CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation, please contact [email protected]

• You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit.

• We may ask you to complete an attribute-based assessment and other skills tests (such as simulation, coding, French proficiency, MS Office). Our goal for the application process is to get to know more about you, all that you have to offer, and give you the opportunity to learn more about us.

Job Location

Toronto-81 Bay, 32nd Floor

Employment Type

Regular

Weekly Hours

37.5

Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analytical Thinking, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA, Automation Technology, AWS Direct Connect, Azure Devops, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Azure Pipelines, CI/CD, Cloud DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Enterprise Technologies, GitHub, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Infrastructure Management (IM), IPSec Tunnels, JSON, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Cloud Services, Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Microsoft Azure Resource Manager (ARM) {+ 6 more}