Infrastructure Cloud Solution Architect

Job Description

Infrastructure Cloud Solution Architect – AWS

Rank P5

Scarborough, ON (Hybrid)

Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) currently has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Infrastructure Cloud Solution Architect specializing in AWS to design, implement, and optimize cloud-based infrastructure solutions that provision our enterprise strategy. This role will be accountable for driving cloud adoption, ensuring secure and resilient architectures, and guiding cross-functional teams in leveraging AWS services effectively. The ideal candidate is a hands-on architect with strong infrastructure, networking, security, and automation expertise, as well as the propensity to align solutions with business needs and enterprise roadmaps.

This is a full-time opportunity reporting to the Manager, Infrastructure & Support Services. You'll play a key role in defining, building, and maintaining our AWS infrastructure, adhering to AWS standards and best practices for Information Services initiatives, and ensuring the strategic alignment with enterprise roadmaps, our business goals and technology standards. This role offers a unique blend of technical challenge and strategic influence, within a culture that values innovation and teamwork.

What We'll Bring:

Company & Culture

• A hybrid work environment

• A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility and respect

• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career

• A focus on respect for people and continuous improvement

• Summer Hours – condensed work week during the summer

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package including bonus

• Extended health care and dental benefits effective immediately

• Company pension plan with additional employer contributions

• Associate vehicle discount program

• Reimbursement programs (tuition & fitness)

• Paid holiday shutdown and competitive paid time off benefits

• Sabbatical leave program

What You'll be Doing:

Architecture & Design

• Design scalable, secure, high-performing, and cost-optimized AWS infrastructure solutions

• Develop reference architectures, best practices, and reusable frameworks for cloud deployments

• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards and industry compliance requirements

Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

• Spearhead AWS infrastructure solution design for new projects, other cloud solutions, or integration with on-premises environments

• Evaluate on-premises workloads and legacy applications for migration consideration to AWS

• Define cloud network topology, identity and access management models, and security controls

• Review Vendor SOW's to ensure adherence to TCI standards and accuracy to the required work

• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, and AWS CloudFormation

Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner with business stakeholders, developers, security, and operations teams to deliver cloud solutions

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other Solution Architects

• Be the advisor on AWS faculties, cost optimization, and emerging trends

• Guide the development of new enterprise applications, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and meet all security and compliance needs

• Participate in architecture reviews and solution assessments

• Oversee project resources, scheduling, and performance, providing assistance and direction to the Cloud Team

• Build and maintain collaborative relationships with peers from other functional areas, external vendors, leaders across the organization, and other Toyota affiliates

Operations & Governance

• Establish monitoring, observability, and disaster recovery strategies for cloud workloads

• Oversee the regular operational maintenance projects, including workload allocation to the AWS Team

• Oversee budgets, purchase orders, vendor and contract management, and daily project related tasks

• Enforce governance policies for cost management, compliance, and operational excellence

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience)

• 8+ years of IT infrastructure experience, with 5+ years in cloud architecture (AWS focus)

• Deep expertise in AWS services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.)

• Strong background in networking (VPC design, Direct Connect, VPN, routing, firewalls)

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (EKS, ECS, Kubernetes)

• Proficiency in automation and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation)

• Solid knowledge of security best practices (logging, encryption, key management, compliance frameworks)

• Familiarity with DevOps pipelines, CI/CD, and modern application delivery models (GIT focus)

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (strongly preferred)

• AWS Certified Security – Specialty or Advanced Networking – Specialty

• Other relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, CISSP, Kubernetes)

• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Ability to lead and influence across technical and business teams

About Us

Toyota Canada Inc. is the exclusive Canadian distributor of Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Toyota Canada's head office is in Toronto, with regional offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Halifax. Toyota parts and accessories are distributed through TCI's Parts Distribution Centres in Bowmanville and Vancouver. TCI supports over 287 Toyota and Lexus dealers in Canada with services that include training, sales, marketing, environmental and customer satisfaction initiatives.

What Sets Us Apart?

A focus on people, passion for Toyota, innovation and continuous improvement have made us an award-winning company, recognized worldwide for our technological leadership and superior standards of quality, community involvement and environmental responsibility.

What You Should Know:

Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace diverse perspectives and value unique human experiences. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates the diversity of the communities where we live and do business. Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law. Please advise us at any point during the recruitment and selection process or your employment if you require accommodation.

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