Job Description

Location Address: Hybrid - 44 King Street W 8th Floor – coming in on an ad hoc basis for meetings (up to twice a week and not every week) – need candidates in GTA
Subject to change: 3–4 days onsite may be required based on business needs
Contract Duration: 1 year
Possibility of extension for a total of 16 months & conversion to FTE
Number of Positions: 2
Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week

Story Behind the Need
Business group: Cloud Engineering – main teams are responsible for creating platform (Kubernetes) and all connections for logging monitoring chargeback and setting up all processes around creating/establishing Cloud resources for different projects; creating processes for automating releases; spearheading creation and management of new resources coming to Bank; some teams are responsible for CICD processes – encompassing Bank’s security and auditable processes to go from development/non-prod to production environment; DevOps teams assisting in SDLC; troubleshooting and acting as a point person between development and operations teams.
The Bank has embarked on the journey to modernize both development practices and tools. One of the main areas of transformation is the public cloud and the various platform technologies that support both development and operations on the cloud.
Project: Automating provisioning of Google Cloud resources - Google is decommissioning deployment manager technology which is what BNS was using in their pipelines for provisioning google cloud resources – expanded decommissioning time with Google (March 2027) so have over a year to do this, have a lot of pipelines that currently use deployment manager so need to review those to replace, need to migrate to new pipeline.

Candidate Value Proposition:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain exposure to latest technologies in the market in a progressive organization, grow their GCP skillsets, and visibility with senior stakeholders and different business groups.

Typical Day in Role:
• Key accountabilities include managing, development and maintenance of cloud platforms, services, and components to enable safe enterprise-wide use of public cloud offerings
• Technical ownership/leadership of a component of a larger product.
• Managing, implementing, and refactoring code (Go, Python, etc).
• Ensuring software, programs and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity and reliability, security, and compliance requirements.
• Working with other engineers and architects on breaking-down, scoping and estimating tasks.
• Working with application teams for successful onboarding onto the Platform
• Participating in planning and retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.
• Be able to build and operate the highly available and scalable software and infrastructure.
• Day: stand-up/daily scrum with team in Agile framework, 2-week sprint periods; tracking work in Kanban; work on different tasks and provide updates; not always deploying at end of every sprint but working towards tasks set on roadmap

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 5+ years of relevant hands-on technical working experience in an Infrastructure Operations, DevOps or Cloud Engineering Operations role
2) 3+ years working with Cloud Environments (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.)
3) 1+ year of hands-on experience with GCP
4) 3+ years of hands-on technical working experience with Terraform HCL for IAC

Nice-To-Have Skills:
• Hands-on technical working experience with development/scripting languages (Python), container-based technologies, config management tools, container-based technologies, and CI/CD tools
• Full understanding of software development lifecycle and release process (container-native workflow for job orchestration, Git/GitOps, CI/CD, environments, code repositories).
• Knowledge of software design patterns, and/or security considerations
• Focus on scalable, enterprise-level software system design (both on code and infrastructure levels)
• High level Unix administration skills.

Soft Skills Required:
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Passion for driving teams towards high performance and a deep pride in quality craftsmanship.
• Able to communicate with internal stakeholders on a call

Education:
Bachelor (equivalent or higher) degree in computer science or engineering/mathematics discipline.

Candidate Review & Selection
1 round in person – 1 hour panel interview – with HM, with 2-3 other team members – technical questions

Hiring Manager’s availability to interview: ASAP

Company Description

About TekStaff

Tekstaff is a Canadian owned company based out of Toronto. Founded in 2006, TekStaff has quickly become an industry leading supplier of IT Staffing Services for Canada and the USA. Placing hundreds of IT Professionals on an annual basis with speed, reliability and integrity has given our clients the leading edge in their businesses.

Company Description

About TekStaff\r\n\r\nTekstaff is a Canadian owned company based out of Toronto. Founded in 2006, TekStaff has quickly become an industry leading supplier of IT Staffing Services for Canada and the USA. Placing hundreds of IT Professionals on an annual basis with speed, reliability and integrity has given our clients the leading edge in their businesses.

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