Senior GCP Cloud Engineer to help build an enterprise-wide cloud platform with one of our major banking clients- 38165

Senior GCP Cloud Engineer to help build an enterprise-wide cloud platform with one of our major banking clients- 38165

Location Address: Hybrid - Toronto - 2 days/week (Wednesdays, Thursdays - subject to change)

Subject to change: 3-4 days onsite may be required based on business needs

Contract Duration: ASAP to March 31st, 2026. Possibility of extension.

Schedule Hours: 37.5 hrs/week

Story Behind the Need

Business group: Cloud Engineering - Team is undertaking a critical modernization initiative to build an enterprise-wide cloud platform on Google Cloud. This platform will leverage Kubernetes infrastructure as code to enable scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure. A key focus is creating a seamless CI/CD experience that reduces developer friction, enhances productivity, and enables robust self-service capabilities.

Project: We are building a next-generation cloud platform on GCP, designed to support enterprise-scale workloads with modern DevOps practices. This role will focus on designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines that empower developers with intuitive, self-serve deployment capabilities. To meet our ambitious timelines and quality standards, we are expanding our team with skilled engineers who thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments.

Candidate Value Proposition:

As part of this initiative, you’ll work on a high-impact project that integrates cutting-edge technologies including Kubernetes, GCP, GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Argo CD. You’ll gain hands-on experience with enterprise-grade CI/CD tooling and contribute to building a secure, scalable platform-skills that are highly transferable across financial institutions and the broader tech industry. This is a unique opportunity to elevate your technical profile while shaping the future of cloud engineering at scale.

Typical Day in Role:

• Technical ownership/leadership of enterprise cloud product(s) or a complex part of a larger product including the design, software, and processes necessary for ongoing operations.

• Designing, implementing, and refactoring code.

• Participating in design discussions focused on scalability, design, and implementation best practices.

• Ensuring software, programs, and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity, and reliability requirements.

• Working with other lead engineers and architects on designing solutions and breaking-down, scoping, and estimating tasks.

• Design strategies and tools to deploy, monitor, and administer Cloud applications and the underlying services for Cloud .

• Participate in planning and retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.

• Our teams are flexible and fast, requiring daily peer review and quality control.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 8+ years of relevant experience as a developer / software engineer / cloud engineer

2) 2+ year experience with containerized applications: GKE (preferred), Kubernetes

3) 2+ years’ experience with CI/CD: Github, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Github Actions or similar

4) 5+ years’ proven experience in cloud development (Google GCP, Microsoft Azure, AWS - in order of preference) with domain expertise in cloud platform features and capabilities

5) Experience with design for scalable, enterprise-level software systems (both on code and infrastructure levels).

Nice-To-Have Skills:

1) Full stack experience in product development

2) Experience within Canadian financial institutions

3) Knowledge of /experience with any or all of the following will be an asset:

- Cloud Infrastructure architecture

- Security

- Software design patterns

4) Experience in delivering enterprise systems, collaborating and driving solutions with multiple teams across the organization.

5) Experience with networking in a multi cloud hybrid environment

6) 1+ year experience with IaC: Terraform

Education:

Bachelor (equivalent or higher) degree in computer science or engineering/mathematics discipline.

Best VS. Average Candidate:

Someone who knows what they are doing and come in and execute with minimal hand holding;

Experience with GKE will be prioritized - Experience with building enterprise grade system, doing enterprise work with GKE. Enthusiasm for cloud transformation and cloud platform/components/services development.

Understanding of software development life cycle as well as related technologies, and software release process (environments, binary repositories, CI/CD). The ideal candidate will have some awareness of ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Argo Events Github Actions and Github.

Candidate Review & Selection

2 rounds - 1 hour for 1st round

1st with HM - MS Teams Video - culture/team fit

2nd technical panel interview with technical team - In Person - technical scenario-based questions, coding questions through codility shared live in the interview