Senior Cloud Engineer, Infrastructure as Code

Requisition ID: 259821 

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

Contributes to the overall success of the Global Information Security and Control division, ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives.  Ensures all activities conducted adhere to governing regulations, internal policies.

The Role:
The Senior Cloud Engineer, Infrastructure as Code within Cloud Platform Engineering at Scotiabank Canada is a senior individual contributor role focused on accelerating and enabling enterprise-wide cloud adoption through strong engineering practices, reusable infrastructure patterns, and cross team collaboration.

This role is aligned under the Cloud Product organization and operates horizontally across Cloud Engineering verticals rather than being embedded in a single focus delivery team. You will work across Azure and GCP, integrating with multiple delivery models and closely working with the CIO‑aligned teams consuming our patterns to better help them operationalize secure, scalable, and compliant Cloud solutions. You will help to bridge gaps with CIO teams, prioritizing and meeting their needs that in turn improves cloud platform engineering reach and adoptability.

Rather than owning a single platform, service, or execution lane, Senior Cloud Engineers in this role are expected to apply sound engineering judgment across a variety of problem spaces; balancing standards, delivery realities, and evolving platform capabilities.

What You’ll Do:

Cross Platform Enablement

• Integrate with multiple cloud delivery initiatives across Azure and GCP.
• Support internal teams consuming cloud platforms by providing guidance on infrastructure design, deployment patterns, and operational best practices.
• Operate effectively across varied delivery models without being tied to a single backlog or pipeline.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Develop, extend, and support the adoption of reusable Terraform modules, cloud and DevOps patterns across the enterprise.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in existing cloud foundations, onboarding workflows, shared infrastructure pipelines, and tenant consumables.
• Apply practical engineering judgment to improve IaC solutions to meet unique CIO needs while maintaining compatibility with existing environments.

Governance & Compliance Support

• Contribute to the evolution of policy‑as‑code and governance mechanisms (e.g., HashiCorp Sentinel, Open Policy Agent).
• Support regulated cloud environments, including the creation and enhancement of cloud platform landing zones to achieve PCI and other compliance frameworks.
• Help ensure governance controls are effective, scalable, and adoptable by delivery teams.

Developer Experience and CI/CD Contributions

• Participate in both traditional virtual machine and container‑based platforms development and adoption, including self-service consumable patterns and internally managed as a service Kubernetes offerings.
• Contribute to CI/CD workflows and automation supporting infrastructure and platform delivery (e.g., GitHub Actions).
• Identify common failure patterns and contribute improvements that increase reliability and developer experience.

Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing

• Collaborate closely with Principal Engineers across cloud domains to align solutions with platform standards and product direction.
• Share knowledge through documentation, design discussions, demos, and code reviews.
• Provide informal mentorship and guidance to other engineers when working across teams.

What You'll Bring:

• Strong hands‑on experience with Terraform and shared IaC codebases.
• Experience with Kubernetes patterns (Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD/Flux).
• Practical experience across Azure and GCP, supporting VM, Kubernetes and other cloud-native workloads.
• Familiarity with infrastructure CI/CD and cloud governance in regulated environments.
• Comfort operating in brownfield environments and improving platforms incrementally.
• Comfortable working independently on complex ambiguous problems and collaborating across organizational boundaries to solve them.
• Demonstrated technical credibility and the ability to influence outcomes through collaboration rather than formal authority
• Self‑directed, with the ability to ramp up quickly and operate independently

Working Conditions

Work in standard office-based environments located in Scarborough and Downtown Toronto; non-standard hours are a common occurrence. No external travel required.

Interested?

If your experience is closely related but doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we do encourage you to apply - you might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Scotiabank!

At Scotiabank, every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are and, embraced for their differences. That’s why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture.

What's in it for you?

• You’ll join a team focused on building cloud platforms as products, enabling delivery teams across the enterprise rather than acting as a centralized gatekeeper or operating within a narrow delivery focus. This role offers exposure to a wide range of technologies, problem domains, and stakeholders.

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove, and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days, and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs.

Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Toronto 

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.  

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our  Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.