Role: Cloud Engineer Location: Scarborough, ON (Hybrid) Mode: Contract Skills: Platform Provisioning and AWS CDK Strong hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Services including: EC2 S3 Lambda VPC IAM Cloud

Watch Position Summary We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Engineer with strong expertise in AWS and Azure cloud platforms to design, implement, maintain, and optimize cloud infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with cloud services, automation, infrastructure as code, containerization, monitoring tools, and system administration.

This role requires excellent troubleshooting abilities, strong collaboration skills, and a proactive approach to improving cloud operations, security, and reliability.

Key Responsibilities Cloud Infrastructure Management Monitor, maintain, and optimize AWS and Azure cloud environments to ensure high availability, performance, and scalability.

Manage and support AWS services including EC2, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Cloud

Watch, and related cloud components.

Administer Azure infrastructure resources including virtual machines, networking, storage, and security services.

Perform capacity planning and resource optimization to improve performance and control costs.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and AWS Cloud

Formation.

Automate operational and administrative tasks using Python, Bash, and Power

Shell scripting.

Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure deployment automation.

Containerization & Application Support Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot containerized workloads using Docker, ECS, and EKS.

Collaborate with development and Dev

Ops teams to deploy, maintain,



and modernize cloud-based applications.

Ensure application availability, performance, and resilience across environments.

Monitoring, Security & Compliance Implement proactive monitoring and alerting using AWS Cloud

Watch, Dynatrace, and other observability tools.

Enforce cloud security best practices including IAM policies, encryption, patch management, and compliance controls.

Conduct vulnerability assessments and support remediation activities.

Participate in disaster recovery planning, testing, and backup validation.

Incident Management & Troubleshooting Diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure, networking, and application-related issues.

Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive measures to minimize recurring incidents.

Support critical production incidents and provide timely resolution.

Documentation & Knowledge Sharing Maintain accurate technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and runbooks.

Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and training to junior engineers and support teams.

Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and cloud adoption strategies.

Required Skills & Qualifications Technical Skills Solid hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Services including: EC2 S3 Lambda VPC IAM Cloud

Watch Experience managing and supporting Microsoft Azure Infrastructure.





Strong knowledge of Linux and Windows Server Administration.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools: Terraform AWS Cloud

Formation Experience with CI/CD tools and deployment automation.

Hands-on experience with containerization technologies: Docker Amazon ECS Amazon EKS Experience with monitoring and observability tools: AWS Cloud

Watch Dynatrace Other enterprise monitoring platforms Strong scripting skills in: Python Bash Power

Shell Good understanding of: Networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing, Routing, VPNs) Security best practices and cloud governance Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions Soft Skills Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.

Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Strong organizational and time-management skills.

Ability to perform in a fast-paced, production-critical environment.

Leadership mindset with experience mentoring junior engineers and driving team success.

Preferred Qualifications AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional Certification.

Microsoft Azure Administrator or Azure Solutions Architect Certification.

Experience with Dev

Ops and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.

Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud transformation initiatives.

Knowledge of cloud cost optimization and governance frameworks.

Experience 5+ years of Infrastructure/System Administration experience 3+ years of hands-on AWS and/or Azure Cloud Engineering experience Experience working within enterprise production environments supporting mission-critical applications.

📌 Cloud Engineer (Canada)
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