Cloud Engineer (Azure)

If you are looking to join one of Canada’s fastest growing companies, goeasy Ltd. is the place for you! Recognized as Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, GTA's Top 100 Employers, one of Canada’s Top 50 Fintech’s and North America’s Most Engaged Workplaces, we want the best and brightest to join our team.

We are a publicly traded company on the TSX with over 4000% shareholder return since 2001, goeasy operates two main business units. Accredited by the Better Business Bureau, easyfinancial is our consumer lending business that offers secured and unsecured installment loans of up to $45,000 and easyhome is Canada’s largest merchandise lease-to-own company. It is our vision to provide everyday Canadians the path for a better tomorrow, today by giving them access to the credit they need and by offering them a second chance when they have been turned down by banks and traditional lenders. With a retail network of nearly 400 locations across Canada and over 2000 employees, we are able to build lasting relationships with our customers as we help them rebuild their credit and graduate towards prime rates and a brighter financial future.

Reporting to the Manager, Infrastructure Engineering, goeasy is seeking a high performing Cloud Engineer (Azure) at our Mississauga Head Office. This individual will help build out, maintain, and troubleshoot our rapidly expanding infrastructure and network. You will be part of a talented team of engineers, who are mainly focused on Infrastructure. This job consists of both Azure Infrastructure and Network management.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and design improvements or new solutions in Microsoft Azure and alternate cloud environment.
• Manage and apply security best practices to the cloud environment.
• Regularly evaluate cloud applications, designs, and best practices.
• Work within a cross-functional team of Cloud Engineers, App Admins, DBAs, and DevOps teams to specify, design, develop, test, and implement cloud services and solutions.
• Provide guidance and knowledge to team members, and promote efficiency, productivity, innovations, and knowledge-sharing across multi-functional teams.
• Work closely with internal business partners to gather requirements, design and implement solutions, manage technical operations, and triage and resolve operational issues.
• Work with internal architecture, infrastructure, governance, and security teams to ensure that all security, governance and business continuity requirements and best practices are integrated and implemented.
• Continuously improve the triage and escalation process for system availability.
• Developing and maintaining documentation for multiple environments.
• Identify repetitive tasks and build tools and/or processes for automation.
• Research and maintain up-to-date knowledge of current technology trends and best practices.
• Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
• Manage and coordinate support incidents with external vendors.
• Develop and organize Cloud Systems.
• Develop and maintain PowerShell and automation scripts to support the Azure environment.
• Assist in providing estimates of effort, material costs, etc.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination education and related experience.
• 5 - 8 years of experience in IT Infrastructure Operations with a minimum of 2 years of experience in Azure.
• Experience administering in an Active Directory, Azure Active Directory and Azure AD connect.
• Experience with admin and support of Office 365 including Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.
• Some development/automation experience including Installation, deployment and update of enterprise systems.
• Scripting and coding skills – PowerShell, Azure CLI, Terraform, Python, Azure DevOps, Git, Azure Automation.
• Hands-on experience with VMs, virtual networking, IP addressing and subnetting, Application Gateways, Load balancers, Storage accounts, NSGs, Route Tables.  Experience with Azure ExpressRoute is an asset.
• Ability to demonstrate solid analysis and troubleshooting skills.
• Good understanding of Agile/Lean principles such as Scrum, Kanban, MVP etc.
• Comprehensive understanding of key technological concepts such as IT architecture, Cloud technologies, applications, network infrastructure, and security is strongly preferred.
• Hands-on experience to install, configure, test, and deploy enterprise and multi-cloud network infrastructure
• Hands-on experience in implementing Information and Cyber Security in network infrastructure.
• Enterprise level network management including supporting and maintaining campus and DC equipment such as edge NGFW, Routers, WAN, LAN, VPN, Voice and Wi-Fi, core switches, SAN switches and top-of-rack switches.
• Strong problem-solving skills is required in this role.
• Due to the nature of the role; strong collaboration skills, communication, detail orientation are all critical for success in the role.
• Experience managing vendor-provided services including outsourcing arrangements.
• Experience working within a structured process methodology (i.e. ITIL).
• Strong systems aptitude demonstrated project management and planning skills; balanced strategic skills with tactical execution skills.
• Highly motivated, self-starter who is eager to grow within our organization.

Please note: This role internally is referred to as Senior System Engineer.

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

goeasy is an equal opportunity employer. In addition, goeasy is committed to providing accommodations for applicants upon request at any stage of the recruitment process in accordance with all legislative requirements throughout Canada.   Please let us know if you require an accommodation due to a disability during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.

Additional Information:

All candidates considered for hire must successfully pass a criminal background check, credit check, and validation of their work experience to qualify for hire.  

We thank all interested applicants, however we will only be contacting those for interview who possess the skills and qualifications outlined above.

Why should you work for goeasy?

To learn more about our great company please click the links below:

http://goeasy.com/careers/