Manager, Cloud Engineering (Azure)

If you are looking to join one of Canada’s fastest growing companies, goeasy Ltd. is the place for you! Certified as a Great Place to Work®, recognized as Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, GTA's Top 100 Employers, one of Canada’s Top 50 Fintech’s, North America’s Most Engaged Workplaces, and placed on the 2022 Report on Business Women Lead Here list, 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. Accredited by the Better Business Bureau, goeasy Ltd is a Canadian company that provides non-prime leasing and lending services through easyhome, easyfinancial and LendCare. We offer a wide variety of financial products and services including lease-to-own merchandise, unsecured and secured installment loans, direct-to-consumer auto loans, and point-of-sale financing to over 4,000 merchants in the powersports, automotive, retail, home improvement and health sectors. With over 30 years of experience, our over 2300 employees work with our customers to help them get access to the money they need today, while they rebuild their credit and graduate to prime rates. Our omni-channel model includes over 400 retail locations and digital/mobile platforms that enable our customers to transact with us through their channel of choice.

Reporting to the Director, IT Infrastructure, goeasy is seeking a high performing Manager, Cloud Engineering. This is a hands-on management role who will lead the next generation of cloud services at goeasy! 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:

• Lead and manage the cloud engineering team at goeasy by providing guidance, promoting efficiency, productivity, innovation, and knowledge-sharing.
• Contribute to IT strategy & roadmap as it pertains to enterprise cloud services.
• Architect and design improvements or new solutions in Microsoft Azure and alternate cloud environments.
• Regularly evaluate cloud applications, designs, and security best practices for the cloud environment.
• Work within a cross-functional team(s) of Cloud Engineers, App Admins, DBAs, and DevOps teams to specify, design, develop, test, and implement cloud services and solutions.
• Work closely with internal and external business partners to gather requirements, design, and implement solutions, manage technical operations, and triage and resolve operational issues.
• Developing and maintaining documentation for multiple environments.
• Research and maintain up-to-date knowledge of current technology trends and best practices.
• Develop and maintain PowerShell and automation scripts to support the Azure environment.
• Assist in providing estimates of effort, material costs, etc.

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
• 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.
• Scripting and coding skills in PowerShell
• Azure cloud-based networking experience
• Some development/automation experience including Installation, deployment and update of enterprise systems.
• 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
• Experience managing vendor-provided services including outsourcing arrangements.

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/

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