Resiliency Architect

Location: Downtown Montreal North

Our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times.

Our employee promise represents Intact’s commitment to you in exchange for living our Values, striving to do your best work, being open to change and investing in your career. In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us.

Pay at Intact is about much more than just salary.

Flexible  work arrangements and a  hybrid  work model

Possibility to purchase up to  5 extra days off  per year

Multiple benefits offered to support  physical and mental  wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more

Share plan & other savings: up to  12%  of salary or even more (ask how you could earn  guaranteed income for life)

Salary range  (but not limited to):
149,
Annual bonus  target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to  double  the target (subject to personal and company performance):
15%
As part of our commitment to  Win As A Team , we share our success with employees through our annual bonus plan and Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) – with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.

Our pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers. We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.

Salary for the candidate will be determined taking into consideration a number of factors including: experience, skills, qualifications, anticipated contribution to role, internal equity, etc.  The salary range presented above is based on a 35-hour workweek and would represent a majority of different candidate profiles. However, we encourage candidates who may fall outside of this range to apply as well.

About the role

We are seeking a Resiliency Architect to define and drive our end-to-end resiliency architecture and production reliability posture across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and on‑prem environments.

This person will be responsible to design standards, production readiness, and enforcement mechanisms at enterprise scale.

The ideal candidate combines deep SRE expertise with advanced systems architecture and a strong vision for explicit blue/green and chaos engineering practices—alongside AI/GenAI—to make systems reliable, leverage AI as a force multiplier for resiliency, transform team workflows, and deliver resilient, intelligent user solutions.

What you'll do here:
Core objectives :
Establish the enterprise resiliency architecture, patterns, and production guardrails for all critical platforms and services.

Govern design quality through rigorous architecture reviews and production readiness assessments.

Make blue/green deployments and chaos engineering first-class, codified practices across the estate: design, tooling, automation, and continuous validation.

Integrate AI/GenAI into reliability engineering: robust AI system architectures, AI-assisted observability, causal detection, and autonomous remediation.

Lead the evolution of disaster recovery, ransomware protection, and continuity strategies grounded in hard SLAs/SLOs and measurable business outcomes.

Key responsabilities
Own the resiliency reference architecture for multi-cloud/hybrid (multi-region/zone, active-active/passive, blast-radius reduction) and define/enforce NFRs (availability, latency, durability, RTO/RPO).

Establish governance via design reviews, production gates, policy-as-code, scorecards, and automated controls integrated with CI/CD, IaC, and runtime platforms.

Standardize blue/green deployment architecture and engineer…