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Join us at Manulife and be part of a high performing engineering team in our Waterloo, ON Office, where your expertise directly contributes to our technological success. In this role, you’ll have a meaningful impact on our cloud platform strategy, helping drive efficiency, reliability, and innovation across the organization. You’ll work with modern cloud technologies, build automation, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to continuously enhance our platform services and operational excellence.

The Intermediate Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure solutions that support business applications and enterprise platform services.

This role plays a critical part in streamlining operations, enabling automation, and driving continuous improvement across our cloud environments. You will help implement scalable architecture, ensure the security and availability of cloud systems, and contribute to ongoing cloud modernization initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise applications and services.

Develop innovative, cloud-centric solutions and document platform designs, ensuring optimized performance, security alignment, and operational readiness.

Maintain a highly available server and infrastructure environment, including OS updates, configuration management, and system tuning.

Troubleshoot and resolve complex or escalated technical issues within cloud platforms.

Plan, conduct, and evaluate tests for IaaS cloud systems to ensure reliability and performance.

Perform ongoing performance tuning, capacity management, hardware upgrades, and resource optimisation for cloud infrastructure.

Support the implementation and maintenance of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.





Contribute to automation initiatives that improve efficiency for infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and operational tasks.

Required Qualifications

Minimum 2+ years of professional experience in a production environment in a similar role.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Understanding of server infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud computing principles.

Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure IaaS and Azure Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Solid grasp of cloud networking concepts and infrastructure components.

Experience with Windows Server operating systems and advanced troubleshooting.

Hands‑on experience automating infrastructure provisioning, DevOps practices, and/or CI/CD pipelines.

Understanding of IT security principles and public cloud security controls.

Experience writing code or scripts to automate monitoring, operations, or data analysis.

Demonstrated ability to design, build, and deploy scalable cloud solution architectures.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with cloud computing and cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS).

Hands‑on knowledge of automation, Infrastructure as Code, and configuration management tools.

Background in networking and security concepts.

Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM).

Knowledge of networking infrastructure components.

Familiarity with API gateways and cloud‑based architectural patterns.





System administration experience across Windows or Linux environments.

Proficiency in scripting or programming languages (e.g., PowerShell, Python).

Experience with containers and container orchestration technologies.

When you join our team:

We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

We’ll recognise and support you in a flexible environment where well‑being and inclusion are more than just words.

As part of our distributed team, we’ll support you in crafting the future you want to see.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programmes without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy‑related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process.

Location: Waterloo, Ontario. Working arrangement: Hybrid.

Salary range: $86,100.00 CAD – $136,100.00 CAD. Employees also have the prospect to participate in incentive programmes and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

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📌 Cloud Platform Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Manulife Financial
📍 Toronto