Cloud Automation Engineer Ontario

At Gore Mutual, we’ve always set ourselves apart as a modern mutual that does good. Now, we’re proudly building on that legacy to transform our company—and our industry—for the better.

Effective January 1, 2026, Gore has joined Beneva—the country’s largest mutual insurance company—as part of its Property & Casualty operations in Ontario and Western Canada. During 2026, Gore will combine its operations with Unica Insurance, Beneva’s Ontario-based subsidiary specializing in niche commercial and personal insurance, creating a stronger, more diversified mutual insurer with greater scale and long‑term stability.

Every decision and investment remains anchored in long‑term benefits to customers, members, and communities. Come join us.

The Cloud Automation Engineer designs, builds, and operates automation‑first cloud infrastructure platforms using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD, and serverless automation. The role enables secure, repeatable, and resilient cloud environments through standardized automation, self‑service capabilities, and codified governance primarily in Microsoft Azure , with tertiary exposure to AWS .

• Design, develop, and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, ensuring infrastructure is reproducible, testable, and auditable.
• Build and maintain reusable IaC modules aligned with platform standards, security guardrails, and network architecture patterns.
• Implement automated provisioning, configuration, scaling, and decommissioning workflows for cloud infrastructure and shared services.
• Define and maintain code repositories following industry best practices and strong code repository governance.
• Design and maintain BC/DR capabilities and recovery environments using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Automate recovery environment deployment and support validation/testing routines to ensure recoverability and resilience.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform automation.
• Integrate testing, validation, and policy enforcement into pipelines to promote safe and consistent changes.
• Build automation solutions using Power Shell, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Automation Accounts, and Azure Functions.
• Develop event‑driven and scheduled automation for platform operations, governance processes, and operational workflows.
• Implement robust secret management and secure runtime configuration practices.
• Develop and maintain automation using Power Shell, Python, and Bash scripting.
• Use appropriate scripting/tools to enable orchestration, integration, validation, and operational automation across platforms.

• Work closely with other IT teams to integrate cloud network solutions with existing systems and applications.
• Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving hardware, software, and other network and system problems including routers, switches, firewalls, wireless controllers and VPN concentrators.
• Maximizing network performance by monitoring activity and utilizing observability tools such as Dynatrace and Azure monitoring.
• Monitoring and maintenance of company‑wide AV (Audio‑Video) infrastructure – such as conference rooms, collaboration spaces etc.
• Serve as the on‑call network engineering for after‑hours escalation issues as part of the company on‑call rotation schedule.

• Ensure automation solutions are observable and operationally supportable by integrating with modern observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Datadog, and Azure‑native tooling including Azure Monitor and Azure Log Analytics.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, and operational insights, enabling faster detection and root‑cause analysis (RCA) by using telemetry (metrics/logs/traces) and platform standards.
• Use modern query languages such as DQL (Dynatrace Query Language) and KQL (Kusto Query Language), with secondary knowledge of SQL, to support troubleshooting, insights, and automation‑driven operations.

• Embed cloud security and technology security best practices into all automation solutions (identity, secrets, least privilege, logging, secure configuration baselines).
• Partner with Security teams to ensure…