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What You’ll Be Doing

This is an exciting time to be joining CIBC’s Infrastructure Technology team. We are looking for a Senior Consultant, Cloud Engineering who brings experience specifically in working with Microsoft Azure. This role is for someone who is passionate about building innovative solutions with new challenges and technologies while making an impact.

The Senior Consultant, Cloud Engineering is responsible for providing technical recommendations and subject matter expertise to ensure stable, reliable production and non-production environments for complex sharing initiatives in compliance with established controls, standards, policies, and procedures. The role collaborates with and advises senior management, utilizing a solid understanding of business dynamics to analyze and protect production and non-production environment integrity and mitigate risks, present and recommend solutions using available resources for complex initiatives with key dependencies. The Senior Consultant, Cloud Engineering provides technical leadership, interpreting complex information and coordinating client, provider, and vendor relationships to meet and manage service expectations, aligned to best practices. In addition, the role participates in the development of the team to maximize individual contributions and professional growth, functioning effectively with colleagues.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (proportion of on-site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview.

How You’ll Succeed

• Leadership & Communication: Provide technical leadership during the design, build, configuration, implementation and maintenance phases of major public and private Cloud technologies and automation tooling in a multi-platform environment.Lead the evaluation, selection and implementation of new and emerging products and techniques; support the development of business/technology proposals by estimating implementation costs and evaluating options. Collaborate with senior leaders across the company and make informed recommendations to enhance Cloud related solutions. Weigh business needs against technology of offerings, security concerns and provide recommendations which are practical and achievable.

• Governance: Proactively contribute to governance initiatives in the development of company policies, audit requirements etc. Provide technical or business guidance to clients within and outside your own department.

• Engineering: Provide automation expertise within core automation DevOps tool chain and orchestration expertise in Provisioning and Public Cloud. Determine standards and roadmaps for hardware and software. Decide how infrastructure is built and recommends Cloud-based standards for organization wide initiatives based on area of expertise. Conduct major studies regarding system usage, make recommendations for improvements, and determine infrastructure system requirements. Design, develop and test emerging Cloud-based software solutions. Provide ongoing analysis and evaluation of test plan, all additions and changes to ensure they are introduced in a manner that protects the integrity of the environment and mitigates risks. Provide in-depth subject matter expertise to perform broad impact analysis, present alternative solutions, and make recommendations for complex initiatives and projects. Work with the Enterprise Architecture team on identifying requirements and design for continuous evolution of Cloud-based solutions. Manage clients, providers and vendor relationships to ensure service expectations are understood, managed and met. Support both production and non-production Cloud platform environments and hosted applications. Implement production and non-production changes to Cloud platforms and applications following established change management policies.

Who You Are

• You can demonstrate experience in design, implementation and support of technologies and technology-based solutions on Cloud platforms.

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience is required. Understanding of Waterfall and Agile delivery methodologies, terminologies and ceremonies is mandatory.

• Experience in ServiceNow and Microsoft Azure is required, while additional experience in Amazon Web Services is preferred. Proficiency with tools such as GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, and Continuous Integration (CI)/ Continuous Delivery (CD) systems is required. Strong technical knowledge and subject matter expertise in Microsoft's Azure, ARM Templating, Azure DevOps Pipeline implementation of “infrastructure as code” deliveries, Role Based Access Control (RBAC), and monitoring/hardening/policing/templating/delivery of Azure Services will be key to your success. Proficiency with Bicep, JSON and PowerShell scripting is a must.

• Experience with IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and network and security related solutions is required. Technical knowledge and subject matter expertise in Windows Server, Linux/Unix and Middleware tier is required. Experience with Azure Firewalls, ExpressRoute & IPSec Tunnels, Virtual WAN, WAF, Network Security Groups (NSG) and other network and security components of Azure will be valuable. Microsoft Azure certifications, as well as ITIL certifications would be considered as assets.

• You have strong knowledge of-

• Systems Software Infrastructure - Knowledge of the existing and planned software technology and the global, regional and local software architecture and infrastructure components.

• Hardware Infrastructure - Familiarity with hardware technology and the global, regional and local hardware architecture.

• Technical Troubleshooting - Knowledge of approaches, tools and techniques for anticipating, recognizing, and resolving technical (hardware, software, application or operational) problems.

• Consulting - Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques and roles and responsibilities in providing technical or business guidance to clients within and outside own area.

• Problem Solving - Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems.

• Managing Multiple Priorities - Ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups or activities. Effective judgment in prioritizing and time allocation.

• Creativity - Knowledge of approaches, tools and techniques for promoting creative, original thinking and applying it to existing and emerging situations.

• Computer Operations - Knowledge of the data center operating environment and day-to-day operational requirements.

• Decision Making and Critical Thinking - Knowledge of tools and techniques for effective use of a broad range of factors, assumptions, frameworks and perspectives when solving problems.

• Written Communications - Ability to produce a variety of business documents that demonstrate command of language, clarity of thought and orderliness of presentation.

• Oral Communications - Ability to express oneself and communicate with others verbally; recognizing that verbal communication is more than just language - it includes tone, style and structure.

• Interpersonal Relationships - Knowledge of approaches, tools and techniques for working with individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.

• You act like an owner - You thrive when you're empowered to take the lead, go above and beyond, and deliver results.

• You're digitally savvy - You seek out innovative solutions and embrace evolving technologies. You can easily adapt to new tools and trends.

• You look beyond the moment - You make decisions and take actions that will make a difference today and tomorrow. You proactively seek new opportunities to define what's possible.

• Values matter to you - You bring your real self to work and you live our values – trust, teamwork and accountability.

What CIBC Offers

At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck.

• We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program, defined benefit pension plan, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.

• Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.

• We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.

*Subject to plan and program terms and conditions

What you need to know

• CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation, please contact Mailbox.careers-carrieres@cibc.com

• You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit.

• We may ask you to complete an attribute-based assessment and other skills tests (such as simulation, coding, French proficiency, MS Office). Our goal for the application process is to get to know more about you, all that you have to offer, and give you the opportunity to learn more about us.

Job Location

Toronto-81 Bay, 32nd Floor

Employment Type

Regular

Weekly Hours

37.5

Skills

Agile Methodology, Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analytical Thinking, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA, Automation Technology, AWS Direct Connect, Azure Devops, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Azure Pipelines, CI/CD, Client Counseling, Client Service, Cloud DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Communication, Computer Operations, Creativity (Inactive), Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Design, DevOps, Enterprise Technologies {+ 28 more}

At CIBC, we are in business to help our clients, employees and shareholders achieve what is important to them. Our ability to create value for all CIBC stakeholders is driven by a business culture based on common values: Trust, Teamwork and Accountability.

Working with CIBC makes you a part of a work environment committed to our clients, employees and communities - a place where you can excel.

Every day, our 44,000 employees help our clients achieve their financial goals, because what matters to our clients, matters to us.