Cloud & Platform Engineer

Manulife

Cloud & Platform Engineer building and operating Azure-based ecosystem for investment analysis. Focus on developer experience, platform reliability, automation, and delivery speed.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeMontreal • 🇨🇦 CanadaMid-LevelSenior💰 CA$86,100 - CA$136,100 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Azure-based platform development and operations, with a strong focus on containerized workloads, CI/CD practices, and troubleshooting in cloud environments. Proficient in automation and observability, ensuring reliability and security across platform services.

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Azure Cloud EngineeringKubernetes (AKS) ManagementCI/CD Pipeline DevelopmentScripting with Python or BashCloud Troubleshooting

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Hard Skills

Azure Blob StorageAzure File ShareEvent GridEvent HubsAPI ManagementDeployment AutomationPlatform AutomationContainerizationInfrastructure EngineeringCloud Security Fundamentals

Soft Skills

Strong Communication Skills

Tools & Technologies

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Azure Key VaultAzure-native Observability ToolsCI/CD Tools

Industry Keywords

Cloud EngineeringPlatform EngineeringDevOpsInfrastructure EngineeringEvent-Driven Workloads

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudKubernetesPythonVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop, build, operate, and improve Azure-based platform, services and cloud environments
Support containerized workloads running on Azure Kubernetes platforms (AKS), Azure VM and related runtime patterns
Help engineer and maintain platform components such as Azure Blob Storage, Azure File Share, Event Grid, Event Hubs, Key Vault, API Management and other Azure Cloud services
Contribute to DevOps and platform engineering practices including CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, environment management, monitoring and operational mandate
Support event-driven and scheduled workload patterns across platform services and compute environments
Partner with application, data and analytics teams to onboard workloads onto shared platform capabilities
Troubleshoot incidents, deployment issues, scaling problems, and integration failures in lower and production environments
Improve observability, reliability, security, and cost discipline across the platform
Support Kubernetes-based application development, deployment, configuration, scaling, and troubleshooting
Assist with platform automation for build, release, configuration, and environment setup
Help maintain secure secrets, identity, and access patterns using services such as Azure Key Vault and managed identity
Contribute to monitoring and operational tooling using Azure-native observability and logging solutions
Work with senior engineers to improve platform standards, reusable patterns, and self-service capabilities
Handle provision and Azure resources request process
Participate in production support, root cause analysis, and follow-up remediation work
Document technical designs, runbooks, and platform operating procedures clearly

Requirements

What you’ll need

3 to 5 years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering
Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform (Microsoft Azure preferred; AWS or Google Cloud experience is also acceptable)
Practical experience with containers and Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, or GKE)
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Experience with scripting or automation using at least one language such as Python and Bash
Familiarity with infrastructure, networking, identity, and security fundamentals in cloud environments
Experience troubleshooting application, API, platform or infrastructure issues in cloud environments
Strong communication skills and the ability to work across partner teams

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Dental benefits
Mental health support
Vision benefits
Short- and long-term disability
Life and AD&D insurance coverage
Adoption/surrogacy benefits
Wellness benefits
Employee/family assistance plans
Retirement savings plans (including pension and global share ownership plan)
Financial education and counseling resources
Generous paid time off program including holidays, vacation, personal and sick days