Questrade Financial Group (QFG), through its companies - Questrade, Questbank, Questrade Wealth Management, Community Trust Company, Zolo, and Flexiti, provides securities and foreign currency investment, professionally managed investment portfolios, mortgages, real estate services, financial services and more. We use cutting-edge technology to help Canadians become much more financially successful and secure.
At QFG, we combine human-centric collaboration with AI-driven innovation to redefine financial services. The ideal candidate will be a catalyst for change, using AI to transform and deliver unparalleled customer experiences and shaping a future where AI empowers our teams to do their best work.
Join our diverse, inclusive, and hybrid workplace to unleash your creativity and nurture your curiosity without limits. If you share this sense of infinite possibility, come shape your future at QFG.
What’s in it for you as an employee of QFG?
- Health & wellbeing resources and programs
- Paid vacation, personal, and sick days for work-life balance
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Career growth and development opportunities
- Opportunities to contribute to community causes
- Work with diverse team members in an inclusive and collaborative environment
We’re looking for our next Senior Cloud Platform Engineer. Could It Be You?
The Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer is part of the team that implements core infrastructure components, CI/CD pipelines and tooling that powers Questrade Cloud Platform to deliver self-servicing capabilities to our Engineer teams to onboard and operationalize cloud-native applications. Some of these components include container orchestration platforms (Google Kubernetes Engine), Service Mesh (Istio), container provisioning engines, configuration and secrets management, stand up / provisioning Terraform modules and others.
In this role, you will collaborate with the project and the architecture teams to influence the design and delivery of our footprint, shape Questrade’s cloud roadmap to deliver against the existing and future needs of the business, and build pipelines and tools to deliver cloud platform components and services for the broad enterprise.
Need more details? Keep reading…
You will:
- Champion “Production Quality” and create cutting edge cloud infrastructure through Infrastructure-as-Code and automation.
- Maintain and expand cloud infrastructure self-service tooling and Cloud Native Application CI/CD Pipeline that powers our internal platform used by hundreds of developers
- Design, propose, facilitate organizational and process improvements as needed for supporting automation and DevSecOps
- Provide expertise, direction, coaching and training to other team members on technologies and processes; drive education and knowledge transfer of design patterns, technical practices, and relevant technologies and tools
- Lead and participate in technical discussions to aid system design, analysis, and troubleshooting cloud-native applications
- Recommend strategies to drive down cost and improve efficiencies with supported vendor software and written code to ensure optimal use of available resources.
- Help engineering teams to develop, test, debug and release scalable, resilient and highly available cloud-native applications quickly.
So are YOU our next Senior Cloud Platform Engineer? You are if you have…
- Deep understanding of Cloud computing concepts and solutions including public, private, hybrid cloud.
- A good understanding of Cloud Security, specifically IAM Roles & Policies, Security Groups and Encryption keys
- Demonstrated experience supporting at least one of the predominant public clouds (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Advanced knowledge and understanding, and hands-on experience with container technologies, like Docker runtime and Kubernetes orchestration. Experience with Google Kubernetes Engine is nice to have.
- Advanced knowledge and understanding CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Ability to write clean code in at least one language (i.e Python, Golang, Bash etc.)
- Experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Cloud Deployment Manager.
- Exposure or familiarity to Linux Operating system administration and a good understanding of Linux fundamentals like signals, scheduling, filesystems
- Strong TCP/IP networking knowledge in either cloud or on-prem deployments: DNS, network, routing, L3/L7 protocols etc.
- Advanced experience in building systems in a microservice environment. Understanding the building blocks of a resilient and scalable software.
- Experience leading projects.
Sounds like you? Click below to apply!
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At Questrade Financial Group of Companies, with multiple office locations around the world, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible work environment. This is an environment where individuals are treated with dignity and respect. Here, the unique skills and experience you bring will be valued. You will be supported and motivated, so that you can harness your unlimited potential. Our team reflects the diversity of the communities we serve and operate in. Having a collaborative and diverse team helps us push boundaries to bring the future of fintech into existence—not only for the benefit of our customers, but for those who build their career with us.
Questrade Financial Group of companies Applicant Tracking System utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) for application screening. The AI system operates on predetermined criteria, with final decisions subject to human review.
Candidates selected for an interview will be contacted directly. If you require accommodation during the recruitment/selection process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
