Cloud Platform Engineer (Intermediate)

Join us at Manulife and be part of a high performing engineering team in our Waterloo ON Office where your expertise directly contributes to our technological this role youll have a meaningful impact on our cloud platform strategy helping drive efficiency reliability and innovation across the organization. Youll work with modern cloud technologies build automation and collaborate with cross-functional teams to continuously enhance our platform services and operational excellence.

The Intermediate Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for designing building and maintaining cloud infrastructure solutions that support business applications and enterprise platform services.

This role plays a critical part in streamlining operations enabling automation and driving continuous improvement across our cloud environments. You will help implement scalable architecture ensure the security and availability of cloud systems and contribute to ongoing cloud modernization initiatives.

Position Responsibilities:

• Design build deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise applications and services.

• Develop innovative cloud-centric solutions and document platform designs ensuring optimized performance security alignment and operational readiness.

• Maintain a highly available server and infrastructure environment including OS updates configuration management and system tuning.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex or escalated technical issues within cloud platforms.

• Plan conduct and evaluate tests for IaaS cloud systems to ensure reliability and performance.

• Perform ongoing performance tuning capacity management hardware upgrades and resource optimization for cloud infrastructure.

• Support the implementation and maintenance of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.

• Contribute to automation initiatives that improve efficiency for infrastructure provisioning monitoring and operational tasks.

Office Location: Waterloo - Canada or Toronto - Canada or Boston - USA

Work arrangement: Hybrid - 3 days in office 2 days from Home;

Working remotely option is not available.

Required Qualifications

• At lease 3 - 6 years IT industry experience

• Minimum 2 years of professional experience in a production environment in a similar role.

• Understanding of server infrastructure virtualization and cloud computing principles.

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure IaaS and Azure Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Solid grasp of cloud networking concepts and infrastructure components.

• Experience with Windows Server operating systems and advanced troubleshooting.

• Hands-on experience automating infrastructure provisioning DevOps practices and/or CI/CD pipelines.

• Understanding of IT security principles and public cloud security controls.

• Experience writing code or scripts to automate monitoring operations or data analysis.

• Demonstrated ability to design build and deploy scalable cloud solution architectures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.

• Experience with cloud computing and cloud service models (IaaS PaaS) is desired

• Hands-on knowledge of automation Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools.

• Background in networking and security concepts.

• Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM).

• Knowledge of networking infrastructure components.

• Familiarity with API gateways and cloud-based architectural patterns.

• System administration experience across Windows or Linux environments.

• Proficiency in scripting or programming languages (e.g. PowerShell Python).

• Experience with containers and container orchestration technologies.

When you join our team:

• Well empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

• Well recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

• As part of our distributed team well support you in crafting the future you want to see.

The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us visit is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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Salary range is expected to be between

Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge skills qualifications experience and education/training. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location please contact for the salary range for your location.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits including health dental mental health vision short- and long-term disability life and AD&D insurance coverage adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays vacation personal and sick days and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S. please contact for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.

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