Hybrid Associate Cloud Engineer

at Manulife

• Job title: Associate Cloud Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: CA$60,900 - CA$113,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Azure, Cloud, SOAP, SQL, Unix, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Waterloo, Canada

About the role

• Associate Cloud Engineer integrating cloud technologies for infrastructure design at Manulife. Collaborating with engineering teams to deploy efficient cloud-based solutions and applications.

Responsibilities

• Working in tandem with our engineering team to identify and implement the most efficient cloud-based solutions for the company.
• Planning, crafting and developing cloud-based applications.
• Managing cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines.
• Deploying and debugging cloud initiatives as needed in accordance with standard processes throughout the development lifecycle.
• Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as required.
• Employing outstanding problem-solving skills, with the ability to see and solve issues before they snowball into problems.
• Using your extensive knowledge of APIs to craft RESTful services, and integrate them with existing data providers, using JSON or XML as needed.
• Lead and develop standard processes for larger Cloud Engineer team.
• Building and designing web services in the cloud, along with implementing the set-up of geographically redundant services.
• Orchestrating and automating cloud-based platforms throughout the company.
• Participate in Agile sprints and ceremonies; support rapid iteration and development
• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, maintaining and improving application APIs as a member of a team, work across key data, orchestration, rules and transactional stacks through the entire application and system development life cycle.
• Builds code to specifications and standards
• Creates and conducts executable tests, continuously integrating code into the overall software framework
• Researches technical strategies, third party tools, and current and new technologies to deal with emerging technical issues and improve development efficiency
• Promotes agile principles and methodology

Requirements

• 1+ years Cloud Engineer experience
• 1+ years of experience in Azure Cloud
• 1+ years Golang programming experience
• Good knowledge of Unix and Bosh CLI
• Experience with end-to-end application development in open-stack technologies running in private, public or hybrid datacenter locations is preferred.
• Software development in an agile environment with a focus on DevOps with CI/CD.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and ability to communicate at different management levels.
• Familiar with platform technologies, modern software architectures and API-driven development, scripting languages, technologies such as: API Gateways, Messaging, Data Event Streaming, REST, SOAP, Distributed Tracing, Relational and Document Database Interface/SQL

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental
• Mental health
• Vision
• Short- and long-term disability
• Life and AD&D insurance coverage
• Adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits
• Employee/family assistance plans
• Various retirement savings plans
• Generous paid time off program including holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days