Senior Cloud Specialist

About F12: F12 was built by uniting IT consulting firms across Canada with a shared vision: to reduce risk and complexity by crafting technology platforms that empower leaders to focus and thrive. We elevate IT conversations from ingredients to outcomes, delivering fully designed solutions with no bad options. If you’re looking for the fast lane into an IT career or want to supercharge your professional development, you’ve come to the right place.

At F12, you’ll collaborate with a diverse team and gain exposure to technology services across countless businesses—building a resume rich with experience and accomplishments. Our mission is to elevate our employees by building and retaining an elite team of IT professionals equipped to deliver unmatched service to Canadian business leaders. We value humble service, continuous improvement, and hard work—and we’re looking for like‑minded individuals to join us.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud, AI, and Security Architect to lead the design, implementation, and governance of secure, scalable, multi‑cloud environments across Azure and AWS. This role blends deep cloud engineering expertise with advanced security and enterprise networking capabilities. You will partner with the Sr Cloud Solution Architect, Cybersecurity, Data, and AI teams to deliver secure‑by‑design architecture, modern automation, and resilient platforms that support enterprise‑scale applications.

This position is ideal for a senior technologist who thrives in complex environments, influences cross‑functional teams, and elevates engineering standards across cloud, AI, data, and network domains.

• Design, build, and maintain Azure and AWS infrastructure using compute, networking, storage, serverless, and PaaS services.
• Architect multi‑cloud solutions that meet enterprise requirements for scalability, security, governance, and cost efficiency.
• Maintain reusable cloud patterns, landing zones, and reference architectures.
• Support containerized workloads across AKS, EKS, ECS, Fargate, App Services, and Lambda.
• Data Warehouse Migration to Azure and AWS
• Infra and Database Migration to Azure and AWS
• Optimize workloads for performance, resilience, and cost (Fin Ops mindset).
• Ensure operational readiness, backups, and disaster recovery across both clouds.

• Troubleshoot and maintain IaC using CDK, CDKTF, Terraform, and Bicep.
• Develop reusable IaC modules, wrappers, and libraries for consistency and compliance.
• Enhance automation pipelines for provisioning, configuration management, and policy enforcement.

• Maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, and AWS Code Pipeline.
• Integrate security scanning, compliance checks, and artifact management into release workflows.
• Enable cloud‑native development patterns and modern application hosting.
• Assess, design, implement, and automate security controls across Azure and AWS.
• Develop and maintain cloud security patterns, baselines, and policies‑as‑code.
• Review and approve changes with security implications (IAM roles, policies, SGs, etc.).
• Serve as the cloud security SME for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS implementations.
• Ensure alignment with regulatory frameworks (CSA CCM, ISO 27001/27017, NIST CSF).

• Implement and manage DSPM tools to monitor sensitive data exposure.
• Establish controls for structured/unstructured data across Snowflake, S3, ADLS, data lakes, and warehouses.
• Drive adoption of data‑centric security practices.
• Implement DLP, data classification, encryption, tokenization, and key management.
• Configure, and troubleshoot routers, switches, firewalls, wireless access points, and cloud networks.
• Design and support Azure networking (VNet, NSG, routing, hybrid connectivity).
• Lead upgrades, migrations, and integration projects.
• Monitor network performance, availability, and reliability.
• Implement network security measures in coordination with Cybersecurity teams.

• Implement end‑to‑end monitoring, logging, and alerting using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Cloud Watch, and equivalent tools.
• Ensure strong…