Advisor, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

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What’s in it for you  Benefits  We’ve got the purpose, the people and the perks you need for a fulfilling career. Here’s the comprehensive and generous benefits you get when you’re a permanent employee:
Annual Paid vacation.
Annual individual performance incentive.
Defined benefit pension plan.
Comprehensive group insurance plan to support your well-being from day one.
Support towards your personal and professional growth with training, mentorship and more.
An inclusive workplace culture and environment.
While positions at CMHC require some in-office presence, alternative work arrangements may be considered for Indigenous candidates.
Members of the following employment equity deserving groups will be prioritized for this job:
Indigenous Peoples
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The Role  Join the Infrastructure and Operations team, in the Advisor, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering position.

The Advisor, provides senior technical advisory support for the evolution and continuous improvement of the organization’s cloud and infrastructure platforms across public cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. The role contributes to cloud infrastructure strategy, standards, reusable patterns, operational guardrails, and modernization roadmaps, ensuring infrastructure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, supportable, cost-conscious, and aligned with business objectives, IT strategy, operational requirements, security expectations, and enterprise standards.
Working in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture, infrastructure leadership, security, application, platform, and delivery teams, the Advisor provides technical guidance, design input, and practical validation for cloud and infrastructure solutions. The role combines senior advisory responsibilities with hands‑on technical assessment, proof‑of‑concept work, and operational readiness reviews to confirm that proposed solutions are feasible, secure, resilient, observable, and supportable. Through collaboration, influence, and technical credibility, the Advisor helps inform cloud platform adoption, infrastructure modernization, and consistent engineering practices across the enterprise.
What You’ll Do   Evaluate emerging cloud services, infrastructure platforms, and technologies to support business objectives, operational needs, and future‑state infrastructure capabilities.
Conduct technical, operational, risk, security, and cost analyses to inform cloud strategy, infrastructure roadmaps, modernization initiatives, and investment decisions.
Provide design input and technical guidance for cloud‑centric infrastructure solutions that balance security, scalability, resiliency, availability, supportability, performance, and cost optimization in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture and key stakeholders.
Perform hands‑on technical validation, proof‑of‑concept activities, and design assessments to confirm feasibility, operational readiness, security, resiliency, observability, and supportability of proposed cloud and infrastructure solutions.
Ensure cloud and infrastructure…