Posted: June 20, 2026
Cloud Platform Engineer - Manulife, Waterloo is listed at Manulife in Waterloo, ON. The Beaver Board aggregates this opening from the employer's career page — apply using the button below to reach the official application. Browse more jobs at Manulife.
As an Intermediate Cloud Platform Engineer at Manulife in Waterloo, you will join a high-performing engineering team, making a meaningful impact on the organisation's cloud platform strategy. Your expertise will directly contribute to driving efficiency, reliability, and innovation across Manulife's technological landscape. This pivotal role involves designing, building, and maintaining sophisticated cloud infrastructure solutions that underpin critical business applications and enterprise platform services. You will work with modern cloud technologies, developing innovative, cloud-centric solutions and documenting platform designs to ensure optimised performance, robust security alignment, and operational readiness.
A core aspect of this position is streamlining operations and enabling extensive automation. You will be instrumental in driving continuous improvement across our cloud environments, helping to implement scalable architecture and ensuring the security and availability of all cloud systems. This includes maintaining a highly available server and infrastructure environment, performing OS updates, configuration management, and system tuning. Furthermore, you will troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues within cloud platforms, plan and conduct tests for IaaS cloud systems to guarantee reliability, and perform ongoing performance tuning and resource optimisation. Your contribution to automation initiatives, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, will significantly improve the efficiency of infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and various operational tasks, enhancing the overall information flow and process within Manulife.
To excel in this Intermediate Cloud Platform Engineer role at Manulife, candidates must possess at least three to six years of IT industry experience, with a minimum of two years of professional experience specifically in a production environment in a similar capacity. A strong understanding of server infrastructure, virtualization, and core cloud computing principles is essential. Expertise in Microsoft Azure IaaS and Azure Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a key requirement, alongside a solid grasp of cloud networking concepts and various infrastructure components. Practical experience with Windows Server operating systems and advanced troubleshooting skills are also critical for maintaining our robust platform.
Furthermore, hands-on experience automating infrastructure provisioning, implementing DevOps practices, and managing CI/CD pipelines is expected. A clear understanding of IT security principles and public cloud security controls is vital to ensure the integrity and protection of our information and systems. Candidates should also demonstrate experience writing code or scripts to automate monitoring, operations, or data analysis, contributing to more efficient processes. The ability to design, build, and deploy scalable cloud solution architectures is paramount. Preferred qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, experience with various cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS), knowledge of automation and configuration management tools, a background in networking and security concepts, and familiarity with Identity and Access Management (IAM) and API gateways. Proficiency in scripting languages like PowerShell or Python, and experience with containers, will further enhance your application for this Manulife opportunity.
