Overview

Cloud Operations Developer — Location: Remote - Anywhere in Canada. Empire Life is looking to hire a Cloud Operations Developer to join our IT Infrastructure & Operations team.

Note on salary — The base salary will be determined by the successful candidate's education, skills and experience. The listed salary range serves as a general pay guideline for this position's pay level.

What you’ll be working on

- Re-platforming and operationalizing existing batch jobs onto cloud-native services (e.g., Kubernetes Jobs, serverless functions) with automated workflows.
- Designing, building, and maintaining automated runbooks and self-healing capabilities for cloud-native applications and shared enterprise services.
- Implementing and managing advanced monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions for cloud-native systems and modernized batch workloads, ensuring application observability integration.
- Ensuring the continued reliable operation of existing legacy batch jobs and applications during the transition period.




- Developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for operational components and shared services.
- Managing the application layer for self-hosted streaming platforms like Redpanda/Kafka (e.g., configuring brokers, topics, security, monitoring) on provided infrastructure via IaC.
- Automating the deployment and scaling of cloud SFTP services (e.g., Azure / GCP) if cloud-managed, or managing the SFTP application layer if self-hosted in the cloud.
- Collaborating with other teams to manage enterprise-wide document management systems (e.g., Confluence, SharePoint, AODOCS) and enterprise network file shares/storage solutions.
- Contributing to company-wide disaster recovery planning, focusing on cloud infrastructure DR plans and automation.
- Providing Level 2/3 production support and incident management for cloud infrastructure and cloud-managed p

📌 Cloud Operations Developer (Canada)
🏢 Empire Life
📍 Canada