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In this role, you will take on a premier platform automation, infrastructure as code (IaC), and cloud reliability engineering capacity, specializing in designing, building, and operating production-grade automation frameworks across multi-tier cloud platforms.\n\nAs a Cloud Engineer, you will bridge the gap between platform engineering, solution architecture, service operations, and quality engineering. Operating in a 100% remote setting, you will drive strategic initiatives to modernize how infrastructure is provisioned, deployed, and sustained. You will consolidate CI/CD pipelines into shared reusable templates, orchestrate infrastructure using Terraform and Helm, implement GitOps-based continuous delivery, and automate disaster recovery procedures. This position demands a technical platform authority with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes/AKS, and infrastructure automation who can eliminate manual workflows, optimize operational costs, and leverage modern AI tooling to accelerate delivery.\n\nLocation: Remote\n\nAssignment Type: 100% Remote\n\nContract Duration: 6-month contract to start (with intention to convert to Full-Time Permanent)\n\nAdvantages\n100% Remote Flexibility: Enjoy the freedom and work-life balance of a fully remote position.\n\nContract-to-Perm Potential: Start with a 6-month contract structured with direct intention to convert to a full-time permanent role.\n\nModern Cloud-Native Tech Stack: Gain deep, production-grade exposure to Azure, AKS, Terraform, Helm, GitOps, and Kafka.\n\nNext-Gen Automation & AI Enablement: Pioneer AI-assisted engineering and automated guardrails within a forward-thinking platform environment.\n\nResponsibilities\nOwn build and release engineering by auditing existing repositories and consolidating Azure DevOps pipeline YAML into shared, reusable templates with change detection and automated quality gates.\n\nImplement GitOps-based continuous delivery to achieve declarative, Git-driven deployments featuring automated reconciliation, drift detection, and automated rollbacks.\n\nDesign, build, and maintain automated on-demand provisioning and teardown for line-of-business environments across all supporting cloud services and applications.\n\nAutomate business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) processes, including backup validation, automated failover, recurring DR drills, and measured RTO and RPO metrics.\n\nMaintain, refactor, and version Terraform configurations and modules, enforcing strict state boundaries and provider version management.\n\nAuthor and refactor Helm charts to deploy in-cluster platform services, hardening workloads for high availability, auto-scaling, and resource optimization.\n\nBuild and maintain custom build agent images to standardize and streamline tooling across CI/CD delivery pipelines.\n\nImplement automated platform guardrails, embedding policy-as-code, security scanning, IaC static analysis, and observability dashboards into pipelines.\n\nIntegrate AI-assisted engineering tools into platform operations, packaging operational knowledge into reusable skills and automated runbooks.\n\nEliminate repetitive manual efforts across engineering teams by automating patching, certificate and secret rotation, environment scaling, and routine reporting.\n\nTroubleshoot complex staging and production issues, performing root-cause analysis and maintaining comprehensive operational documentation.\n\nQualifications\nCore Technical & Cloud Engineering Requirements\nPlatform & DevOps Tenure: Minimum 6+ years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering, including at least 1–2+ years focused on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD automation in production Azure environments.\n\nInfrastructure as Code & Containers: Deep expertise in Terraform (module design, state management, refactoring) and Helm chart authoring, alongside production experience with Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).\n\nCI/CD & GitOps Delivery: Proven experience building Azure DevOps YAML pipelines and implementing GitOps continuous delivery frameworks (Argo CD or Flux).\n\nAzure Cloud Ecosystem: Demonstrated engineering experience across Microsoft Azure services, including AKS, Key Vault, Storage, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, virtual networking, and IAM.\n\nAutomation & Scripting: Strong programming proficiency in Python and Bash to build maintainable tooling, automation scripts, and custom integrations.\n\nDisaster Recovery Automation: Hands-on experience engineering automated backup, restore, and failover workflows with measurable RTO and RPO targets.\n\nEducation: Post-secondary degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent practical work experience).\n\nPreferred Assets & Certifications\nEvent Streaming: Operational experience with Apache Kafka (topic/partition design, consumer group sizing, performance tuning, or platform migrations).\n\nObservability as Code: Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and tracing using Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.\n\nAI Tooling & FinOps: Experience utilizing agentic coding tools to safely accelerate delivery, alongside knowledge of Azure Cost Management and FinOps practices.\n\nIndustry Certifications: Credentials such as HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, Microsoft Certified (AZ-104, AZ-400, AZ-305), or Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD) are considered an asset.\n\nRegulated Industries: Prior experience operating within regulated enterprise environments (e.g., healthcare, PHI) is an asset.\n\nSoft Skills & Delivery Attributes\nAnalytical Problem Solving: Superior diagnostic capabilities to troubleshoot complex deployment pipelines, containerized workloads, and cloud infrastructure issues.\n\nCollaboration & Knowledge Sharing: Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven track record of authoring clear runbooks and collaborating across multidisciplinary engineering teams.\n\nSummary\nIf you're interested in the \"Cloud Engineer\" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.\nOnly qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!\n\nRandstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.\n\nRandstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. 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