Senior Cloud Architect

2 months ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada CB Canada Full time

About Us

Valeyo is a leading Canadian-based solutions provider to the financial services industry. We are a trusted distributor for industry-leading carriers and service providers across Canada, whose products strengthen our proprietary technologies and expand our suite of lending and insurance solutions. With over 40 years of business excellence behind us, we unite a diverse group of insurance, technology, business, and marketing professionals with a common purpose: to help our clients thrive through strong partnerships.

About the Role

The Senior Cloud Engineer role specializes in Microsoft Azure. The role participates in the design of high-performance, reliable, resilient, economical, and secure solutions to ensure successful deployments. We make recommendations to ensure that the architecture meets the business needs.

Responsibilities

  • Owns continuous delivery framework and focus on automation.
  • Provisions and administers infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service environments using best practices in Microsoft Azure.
  • Architects, designs, deploys, maintains, and leads the implementation of cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and underlying technologies.
  • Reviews, evaluates, specifies, designs, maintains, and documents system architecture, system configuration, system monitoring, and system performance monitoring.
  • Processes and completes simultaneous projects in an accurate and timely fashion.
  • Supports always-available cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) applications.
  • Makes decisions on problem resolutions in critical downtime situations when escalation is impractical.
  • Creates, updates, and shares implementation, infrastructure, and architectural designs with the organization.
  • Develops clear, concise installation, configuration procedures, runbooks, and contributes to the maintenance of operational standards.
  • Creates automated approaches and scripts for system administration tasks where possible and appropriate.
  • Analyzes security requirements and recommends appropriate solutions.
  • Implements security measures in all technical activities to limit unauthorized access/use.
  • Provides advanced systems and intermediate network support as requested as part of troubleshooting analysis.
  • Participates in design sessions with the team and architects.
  • Creates technical documentation, diagrams, and presentations.

Requirements

  • University degree or equivalent industry experience.
  • Knowledge of Azure cloud services and related controls.
  • Understands capacity management and right-sizing.
  • Nice to haves include anything with Firewalls, Office 365, Exchange, Domain Controllers, Virtualization VMWare.
  • Azure Cloud Architect certification.
  • 4-5 years of experience working in Cloud architecture, implementation, and/or administration role.
  • Automation and configuration management tools like Azure native tool – deployment manager.
  • Azure Policies.
  • Azure SKD/API tools.

Skills and Experience

  • Experience scripting languages and automation.
  • Experience with agile development methodologies and implementing them to DevOps practices.
  • 5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical and deployment projects (where necessary, managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects).
  • Strong communication, presentation, and relationship skills, especially the ability to articulate technical topics.
  • Scripting (PowerShell, Python) knowledge/experience a bonus.
  • Knowledge of Linux, Windows system.
  • Ability to lead the team and work well both independently and in a team environment.
  • Good working knowledge with Microsoft products such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  • Team player before anything.
  • Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.

The Valeyo Way

Through collaboration and innovation, everything we do at Valeyo is focused on people – those we help and those we hire. It's our way to empower our people with autonomy to make decisions that align with our values, to treat each other with compassion focusing on what we can accomplish as a team; and to recognize our individual and collective efforts. We share a passion and drive for success and are proudly a diverse team. Embracing our differences enhances everything we are involved in from our social awareness as an organization, to our creative problem solving, to the communities we support.

We offer our team the best of both worlds: a fast-paced, innovative environment and an established organization. This includes:

  • A healthy, fulfilling work-life balance through a flexible hybrid work model, a Health and Personal Spending Account, plus the comprehensive benefits and perks of a financially stable organization including Group Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with a company match for Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) and a generous paid-time-off policy including vacation, personal/sick time, wellness day, and statutory holidays.
  • A continuously evolving people-first environment that takes time to have some fun (virtual team building events including scavenger hunts, charity drives, FitBit challenges, photo challenges, virtual social events, including team lunches, and once we're able to safely do so, awesome potlucks, costume competitions, and karaoke battles) while providing access to professional development opportunities through training and educational assistance programs.
  • A bigger than us outlook. Valeyo is committed to conducting its business activities in a responsible manner with emphasis on those that are most relevant to our business: including ethical behavior, concern for employee health and safety, care for the environment, and respect for the communities we serve.

If you have 70% of the qualifications we are looking for and want to be part of our success, we encourage you to express your interest. We can't promise it will be a fit, but we do promise to consider your experience. Apply now.

Valeyo is committed to providing a barrier-free work environment. As such, Valeyo will provide reasonable accommodations available to applicants with disabilities upon request during the recruitment process.

Please contact careers@valeyo.com for accommodation requests.



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