Title: Lead Cloud Operations Engineer

Location: Hybrid - 106 Colonnade Rd Suite 215 (3 days/week) Nepean Ontario K2E 7L6

Clearance Required: Criminal Record Check Required

Senior technical leadership role responsible for leading cloud engineers while remaining hands-on in Azure and Kubernetes environments. You will build secure, scalable infrastructure, drive automation, mentor engineers and improve platform reliability, performance and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

- Lead Azure and AKS technical strategy, architecture and best practices.
- Build infrastructure as code using Terraform and Azure DevOps.
- Manage Kubernetes deployments using ArgoCD, Helm and GitOps.
- Configure Azure networking, Application Gateway, WAF, ingress and load balancing.
- Manage secrets and certificates through Azure Key Vault.
- Maintain ACR pipelines, image scanning and registry operations.
- Automate operational tasks using Python and Bash.
- Troubleshoot AKS clusters, Linux systems, networking, storage and identity.
- Lead incident response, root-cause analysis and stakeholder reporting.
- Maintain monitoring, security, backup, disaster recovery and high availability.




- Mentor junior engineers and communicate with customers and internal teams.
- Drive cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices.

Required Qualifications

- 8–12 years of cloud or infrastructure engineering experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on Azure experience.
- 5+ years managing production Kubernetes/AKS environments.
- Advanced Terraform and infrastructure-as-code experience.
- Robust Azure DevOps and CI/CD knowledge.
- Hands-on experience with ArgoCD, GitOps and Helm.
- Experience with Application Gateway, WAF, Key Vault and ACR.
- Strong Linux, networking and troubleshooting skills.
- Python, Bash or Shell scripting experience.
- Demonstrated technical leadership and mentoring experience.
- Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Assets

- Azure or Kubernetes certifications.
- Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor or Application Insights.
- Microsoft Defender, Wiz or other cloud-security tools.
- Azure API Management, Backup and Site Recovery.
- FinOps, regulatory compliance or financial-services experience.

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