Cloud Engineer

**Dawn InfoTek Inc.** is a professional IT consulting firm that partners with major financial institutions, investment firms, and government organizations. We are dedicated to delivering cutting\-edge consulting services and recruiting top IT talent across all levels for our clients. We are currently seeking a **Cloud Engineer** to join a dynamic development team supporting one of our major financial clients. Location Address: Hybrid \- **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** **Candidate Value Proposition:** The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain exposure to **latest technologies i** n 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.