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Cloud & Platform Engineer
Manulife · Montréal, QC, Canada
Montréal, QC, CanadaExp: 3-5 yrs86,100-136,100 CAD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
86,100-136,100 CAD/yearly
Location
Montréal, QC, Canada
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Manulife Investment Management is seeking a Cloud & Platform Engineer to join their Quantitative Development team. This role involves building and operating an Azure-based cloud ecosystem and platforms, focusing on cloud-native development, platform services, DevOps practices, and engineering support. The engineer will work on improving developer experience, platform reliability, automation, and delivery speed for various workloads.
Benefits
Incentive programsIncentive compensation tied to business and individual performanceHealthDentalMental healthVisionShort- and long-term disabilityLife and AD&D insurance coverageAdoption/surrogacy and wellness benefitsEmployee/family assistance plansRetirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan wiFinancial education and counseling resourcesHolidaysVacationPersonal, and sick daysFull range of statutory leaves of absence
Qualifications
- 3 to 5 years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering.
- Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform (Microsoft Azure preferred; AWS or Google Cloud experience is also acceptable).
- Practical experience with containers and Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, or GKE).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Experience with scripting or automation using at least one language such as Python and Bash.
- Familiarity with infrastructure, networking, identity, and security fundamentals in cloud environments.
- Experience troubleshooting application, API, platform or infrastructure issues in cloud environments.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work across partner teams.
- 3 years of proven experience working in a managed Kubernetes environment (AKS preferred; EKS or GKE also considered).
- 3 years of experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Experience with Azure services such as Event Hubs, Event Grid, Azure Cloud Storage, API Management and Key Vault, or equivalent services on AWS or Google Cloud.
- Knowledge of API development and complementary tools such as FastAPI and Swagger.
- Experience with Docker, Helm, GitHub Actions, or GitOps-style deployment workflows.
- Experience supporting Azure Ubuntu virtual machines, including Linux-based VM administration, troubleshooting, and operational support.
- Familiarity with event-driven architecture and platform integration patterns.
- Exposure to workflow or data platform tooling such as Airflow, Databricks, or similar analytics platforms.
- Understanding of platform reliability, operational readiness, and production support practices.
Responsibilities
- Develop, build, operate, and improve Azure-based platform, services and cloud environments.
- Support containerized workloads running on Azure Kubernetes platforms (AKS), Azure VM and related runtime patterns.
- Engineer and maintain platform components such as Azure Blob Storage, Azure File Share, Event Grid, Event Hubs, Key Vault, API Management and other Azure Cloud services.
- Contribute to DevOps and platform engineering practices including CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, environment management, monitoring and operational mandate.
- Support event-driven and scheduled workload patterns across platform services and compute environments.
- Partner with application, data and analytics teams to onboard workloads onto shared platform capabilities.
- Troubleshoot incidents, deployment issues, scaling problems, and integration failures in lower and production environments.
- Improve observability, reliability, security, and cost discipline across the platform.
- Support Kubernetes-based application development, deployment, configuration, scaling, and troubleshooting.
- Assist with platform automation for build, release, configuration, and environment setup.
- Maintain secure secrets, identity, and access patterns using services such as Azure Key Vault and managed identity.
- Contribute to monitoring and operational tooling using Azure-native observability and logging solutions.
- Work with senior engineers to improve platform standards, reusable patterns, and self-service capabilities.
- Handle provision and Azure resources request process.
- Participate in production support, root cause analysis, and follow-up remediation work.
- Document technical designs, runbooks, and platform operating procedures clearly.
Skills
AirflowAKSAWSAzureAzure Blob StorageAzure Key VaultBashDatabricksDockerEKSGCPGitHubGitHub ActionsGKEHelmKubernetesLinuxOpenAPIPythonUbuntuVault
Relocation
No