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Canadian Tire Chapter Manager, DevOps in Toronto, Ontario
What you’ll do
As a key member of the Legacy Modernization Team, you will provide leadership in architecting, designing, and building Cloud infrastructure and pipelines for modernized solutions and services in the cloud. Serving as the go-to expert for cloud architecture and design on Azure, you will leverage your deep understanding of its capabilities, limitations, and design patterns to drive optimal outcomes. Your expertise in microservices integration and orchestration patterns in large enterprises will be essential in effectively implementing them on Azure.
In this role, you will own the solution architecture for Azure infrastructure, the Kubernetes platform, and related services supporting modernized solutions. By optimizing solutions for cloud consumption and operational efficiency, you will contribute directly to the organization's goals of legacy modernization and cloud adoption.
Lead the architecture of cloud-based solutions on Azure with a focus on infrastructure, microservices, and data integrations
Design pipelines and configurations to support automated provisioning of Azure based infrastructure and services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Lead projects, create architectural artifacts, coach, mentor, and encourage team members
Modernize engineering practices and on-going cloud infrastructure optimization
Partner with multiple technical and business stakeholders providing technical expertise for cloud related issues
Drive investigation and adoption of new and emerging cloud capabilities (e.g. Serverless)
Focus on cost optimization for cloud-based workloads
Manage team priorities and delivery of cloud infrastructure requirements through agile delivery
Work with the SRE team to ensure cloud-based solutions provide sufficient telemetry to support SLAs and operations
Provide hands-on-keyboard support to the team where required
What you bring
Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience
7+ years I.T. experience in progressive development and DevOps related positions
5+ years of experience deploying cloud-based solutions
5+ years of experience implementing foundational cloud services (networking, security, account/organizations, logging & monitoring, identity access management, etc.)
3+ years hands-on experience operating cloud based microservices and workloads with a demonstrated ability maintain high availability, secure and automated deployments
3+ years designing, implementing, and supporting Azure infrastructure and topologies
Azure Certification
Strong hands-on experience with cloud automation and orchestration tooling and practices including git, terraform, ADO/GitHub, ARM or equivalents
Strong hands-on experience with microservices tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, service mesh, API Gateways
Strong experience working with storage and messaging services such as Azure Service Bus, Azure Blob Storage, RDMS, and NoSQL
Experience interpreting and applying security best practices to create, harden and secure infrastructure and applications
Strong architectural experience in public cloud container services (AKS)
Understanding of microservices based applications/development using NodeJS (preferred) and cloud-based services
Understanding of the cloud ecosystem and leading-edge emerging technologies (e.g. Serverless)
Understanding of event-driven/reactive architectures and integrations
Experience configuring and tuning virtual private clouds
Understanding of TLS/SSL, encryption, and key management principles
Experience with Cloud-native KMS and/or HashiCorp Vault
Experience working in an Agile environment
Excellent analytics, problem solving and solutioning skills
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Hybrid
We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.
About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.
Accommodations
We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.
We are one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With world-class owned brands and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies, we are continually innovating with purpose: to excite and serve Canadian customers from coast-to-coast. We are connected to communities, big and small, from coast-to-coast, offering products and services that reflect the diverse nature of every one of them. From sports to outdoors, automobiles to homes, we know and understand life in Canada like no other retailer can.
We are always on the lookout for curious, creative people who are able to navigate and excel in a rapidly evolving retail environment. If you’re ready to take on new challenges – be it in digital, IT, marketing, data & analytics, merchandising, or one of the many other roles we have – there is a place for you here, so apply today.