Senior GCP Cloud Engineer with terraform experience to support one of our major banking clients- 40078

Senior GCP Cloud Engineer with terraform experience to support one of our major banking clients- 40078

Location Address: Hybrid - Toronto- 1 days/week (Wednesdays- subject to change)

Contract Duration: May to Oct 2026 - approx. 6 months - with possibility of extension and conversion to FTE

Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 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. Our team has embarked on the journey to modernize both development practices and tools. One of the main areas of transformation is the public cloud and the various platform technologies that support both development and operations on the cloud. The aim is to provide a streamlined process and framework which will allow the development teams to focus on building business logic.

Project: To ensure continuity and modernize our infrastructure management, we will launch an initiative to migrate all Google Cloud resources currently managed by a legacy pipeline to Terraform. This migration will standardize our Infrastructure-as-Code approach, improve automation, and enhance scalability while reducing dependency on deprecated tools. The project will include inventorying existing deployments, converting or rebuilding configurations using Terraform best practices.

Project has started - currently team has a lead engineer as an FTE that is needed for other initiatives so hoping to find a contractor to fill that gap; closely working with 3 others and output of initiative will be used by the whole team (20+)

Candidate Value Proposition:

As part of this initiative, you’ll lead a high-impact transformation that modernizes our cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Google Cloud’s advanced ecosystem, including GKE (Kubernetes), Policy Controller and Config Connector. This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of enterprise-scale cloud engineering while elevating your technical profile. You’ll design and deliver production-grade Terraform modules following best practices, enabling the opportunity to dive deeply into Terraform

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.

• Infrastructure on a legacy pipeline - writing terraform modules to redploy and deploy those objects using Terraform

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 4+ years’ advanced experience with IaC: Terraform with strong experience in building reusable modules following best practices

2) 8+ years of relevant experience as a cloud engineer / software engineer / systems engineer

3) 3+ years GCP and Kubernetes networking model - to be able to troubleshoot networking problems, setup firewall rules, and understand traffic flows.

4) 5+ years’ proven experience in cloud development (Google GCP, Microsoft Azure, AWS) 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) Working knowledge of the Argo Suite (ArgoCD, ArgoWF, ArgoRollouts) and HashiCorp Vault/ExternalSecret Operator

2) Experience with OPA Gatekeeper is a plus.

3) Knowledge of VPC-SC in GCP and other security control mechanisms is a plus.

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

- Cloud Infrastructure architecture

- Security

- Software design patterns

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

6) Experience with migration projects

7) Experience building enterprise Kubernetes platforms

Soft Skills Required:

• Attention to details, high standards for quality.

• Desire to learn, grow yourself and your team.

• Passion for driving teams towards high performance and a deep pride in quality craftsmanship that delights users.

• Investigating, analyzing, and resolving system problems.

• Ability to solve ambiguous and typically novel problems that require the effort of several engineers.

• Strong communication skills, both written and spoken; of specific importance is strong communication to a technical audience.

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;

Ideal candidate has deep expertise in Terraform, has worked with Kubernetes; if they have done a migration project that will be an asset, a nice to have would be experience building enterprise Kubernetes platforms

Candidate Review & Selection

2 rounds - 1 hour - MS Teams Video for 1st round, 2nd in person

1st with HM - culture/team fit

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