Cloud Engineer

Requisition ID: 267496 

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Scotiabank 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.  We are looking to build our development team with influencer, makers, creators, and industry leaders who will drive us forward.

The role of the Principal Engineer operates within the Cloud Storage Engineering team. This valuable member of the team will be responsible for creating platform components and services for the broad enterprise use. 

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Champion a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.
• Have key accountabilities including design, development and maintenance of cloud platforms, services, and components to enable safe enterprise-wide use of public cloud offerings
• Take ownership/leadership of a component of a larger product.
• Be designing, implementing, and refactoring code (typically Go, Python).
• Ensure software, programs and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity and reliability, security, and compliance requirements.
• Work with other engineers and architects on breaking-down, scoping and estimating tasks.
• Work with application teams for successful onboarding onto the Platform
• Participate in planning and retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.
• Provide mentorship, peer review and code review
• Lead a product/service, and define functions or features for cloud platforms, lead the work of 8+ engineers
• Be able to build and operate the highly available and scalable software and infrastructure.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• At least 5-10 years of hands-on technical working experience with Cloud Managed Development/Services such as Google Cloud Storage
• At least 5-10 years of hands-on technical working experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• At least 5-10 years of hands-on technical working experience with development languages (Go, Python, etc)
• At least 5-10 years of hands-on technical working experience with container-based technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)