Senior Cloud Engineer, IaC - Scotiabank, Toronto

About the Role

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, Infrastructure as Code, within Scotiabank's Cloud Platform Engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in accelerating enterprise-wide cloud adoption. This senior individual contributor position focuses on implementing strong engineering practices, developing reusable infrastructure patterns, and fostering cross-team collaboration across the organization. Operating horizontally across Cloud Engineering verticals, rather than being confined to a single delivery team, you will work across both Azure and GCP environments.

This role involves integrating with multiple cloud delivery models and collaborating closely with CIO-aligned teams. Your expertise will help these teams operationalize secure, scalable, and compliant cloud solutions, bridging gaps and improving the reach and adoptability of the cloud platform engineering initiatives. You'll apply sound engineering judgment across diverse problem spaces, balancing standards, delivery realities, and evolving platform capabilities to ensure overall success within the Global Information Security and Control division.

Key Duties

In this dynamic Senior Cloud Engineering role, your responsibilities will span several critical areas, contributing to the robust and secure evolution of Scotiabank's cloud infrastructure:

• Integrate with multiple cloud delivery initiatives across Azure and GCP, providing cross-platform enablement.
• Support internal teams consuming cloud platforms by offering guidance on infrastructure design, deployment patterns, and operational best practices.
• Operate effectively across varied delivery models without being tied to a single backlog or pipeline.
• Develop, extend, and support the adoption of reusable Terraform modules, cloud, and DevOps patterns across the enterprise.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues within existing cloud foundations, onboarding workflows, shared infrastructure pipelines, and tenant consumables.
• Apply practical engineering judgment to improve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions, meeting unique CIO needs while maintaining compatibility with existing environments.
• Contribute to the evolution of policy-as-code and governance mechanisms, such as HashiCorp Sentinel and Open Policy Agent.
• Support regulated cloud environments, including the creation and enhancement of cloud platform landing zones to achieve PCI and other compliance frameworks.
• Help ensure governance controls are effective, scalable, and adoptable by delivery teams.
• Participate in both traditional virtual machine and container-based platforms development and adoption, including self-service consumable patterns and internally managed as-a-service Kubernetes offerings.
• Contribute to CI/CD workflows and automation supporting infrastructure and platform delivery, utilizing tools like GitHub Actions.
• Identify common failure patterns and contribute improvements that increase reliability and developer experience.
• Collaborate closely with Principal Engineers across cloud domains to align solutions with platform standards and product direction.
• Share knowledge through comprehensive documentation, engaging design discussions, insightful demos, and thorough code reviews.
• Provide informal mentorship and guidance to other engineers when working across teams.

Qualifications

To excel in this Senior Cloud Engineer position, you will bring a combination of technical expertise and collaborative skills, essential for navigating complex cloud environments and influencing outcomes across various teams:

• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and shared Infrastructure as Code (IaC) codebases.
• Experience with Kubernetes patterns, including Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD/Flux.
• Practical experience across Azure and GCP, supporting VM, Kubernetes, and other cloud-native workloads.
• Familiarity with infrastructure CI/CD and cloud governance in regulated environments.
• Comfort operating in brownfield environments and improving platforms incrementally.
• Comfortable working independently on complex, ambiguous problems and collaborating across organizational boundaries to solve them.
• Demonstrated technical credibility and the ability to influence outcomes through collaboration rather than formal authority.
• Self-directed, with the ability to ramp up quickly and operate independently.

Why You'll Love It Here

Joining Scotiabank offers a unique opportunity to advance your career within a purpose-driven, winning team committed to results in an inclusive and high-performing culture. As part of the Cloud Platform Engineering group, you'll be instrumental in building cloud platforms as products, empowering delivery teams across the entire enterprise rather than acting as a centralized gatekeeper. This role provides unparalleled exposure to a wide range of technologies, problem domains, and stakeholders, making it an excellent step in your Scotiabank career journey.

• You’ll join a team focused on building cloud platforms as products, enabling delivery teams across the enterprise rather than acting as a centralized gatekeeper or operating within a narrow delivery focus.
• This role offers exposure to a wide range of technologies, problem domains, and stakeholders.
• Benefit from Scotiabank's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship, fostering an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential.
• Access to Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations, ensuring an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone.
• Opportunities for upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• A competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days, and benefits that start on day one.
• Opportunities for community engagement and belonging through various programs, no matter where you choose to work from.