- Top-tier health and wellness benefits, including comprehensive benefits packages, a yearly health spending account and personal spending account
- Enhanced mental health benefits through SunLife and TELUS Health
- Up to $1000 per year towards career development
- Pension Plan
- Flex-work environment
- Company-wide Employee Volunteer program (Blue Wave Program)
- Employee and Family Assistance Program

Why FirstOntario?

- Top-tier health and wellness perks, including comprehensive benefits packages, a yearly health spending account and personal spending account
- Enhanced mental health benefits through SunLife and TELUS Health
- Up to $1000 per year towards professional development
- Pension Plan
- Flex-work environment
- Company-wide Employee Volunteer program (Blue Wave Program)
- Employee and Family Assistance Program

Job Overview

The VP of Technology & Cloud Engineering drives technology strategy, oversees the design of IT infrastructure (cloud/on-prem), manages related budgets, ensures security by design, leads the Infrastructure team, oversees site reliability engineering (SRE), aligns tech with business goals, and champions innovation, focusing on reliability, scalability, cost-efficiency, and compliance through strong financial acumen and stakeholder partnership. This role ensures the entire technology stack, including cloud services, is designed efficiently, securely, and cost-effectively to support the company's growth, often bridging the gap between technical execution and business strategy.

Key Responsibilities

- Strategic Leadership: Define and execute technology roadmaps, aligning IT Infrastructure with business objectives.
- Cloud & Infrastructure Platform Delivery:



Oversee design of global cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), infrastructure, SRE, and network operations for high availability.
- Oversee the structure of the infrastructure as a code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm) and ensure the CI/CD pipelines, build environments, and monitoring systems are built to maximize developer productivity and deployment quality.
- Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and manage high-performing technology teams.
- Budget & Finance: Manage large IT budgets, control costs, and optimize technology spending.
- Security & Compliance: Implement robust cybersecurity, data protection, and ensure adherence to regulatory standards (FSRA, ISO27001 and others as applicable).
- Innovation: Champion emerging tech like AI/ML, support digital transformation, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
- Policy Management: Contribute to IT policy management process, ensuring consideration for Infrastructure, Cloud and Security best practices.
- Stakeholder Management: Partner with business leaders to understand needs and ensure tech delivers value.
- Operations Excellence: Optimize ITIL processes (incident, change, problem) and ensure reliable service delivery.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.

Required Skills





- Computer Science Diploma or equivalent with 10+ years of experience managing infrastructure teams.
- Exposure to ITIL concepts and adoption, certification desired.
- Foundational knowledge in IT frameworks such as ISO27001, ITIL, COBIT, NIST, etc.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), DevOps, SRE, networking, and cybersecurity.
- Experience managing IT Infrastructure and/or IT Operations Teams in a highly available complex infrastructure with 24/7 availability and support Deep experience with employee enablement tools including Microsoft suite of employee enablement products such as 365, Entra, Teams and others.
- Experienced with regulatory compliance, as well best practices in application and network security.
- Proficient in the following areas: project management, strategic planning, change management, successful management of large-scale projects, advocacy of critical business requirements, and enabling business process improvements and culture change.
- Datacenter management and migrations.
- Aware of and mitigate enterprise risk factors and ensure compliance with applicable regulations, legislation and FirstOntario policies and procedures.
- Proven experience in large-scale infrastructure management and digital transformation.
- Strong financial acumen for budgeting and ROI analysis.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Familiarity with AI/ML technologies and their business application.
- Willingness to work flexible schedule including evenings and weekends as the job demands and travel as required.

This role is hybrid in Stoney Creek, ON.

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📌 VP, Technology (Canada)
🏢 FirstOntario Credit Union
📍 Canada