Bilingual Senior Specialist Software Engineering & Environment Management

Overview

Job Requisition : 11524

Position Status: Permanent Full Time

Position Type: Hybrid

Travel Requirement: Limited

Language Skill Levels (Read/Write/Speak): CBC

Security Requirement: Reliability Status

Salary: Our salaries generally range from $101639.30 to $127049.13 and are based on qualifications and experience.

The work you do and the work we do together matters. We come to work every day with a common purpose: to contribute to a well-functioning housing system.

At CMHC, we hold ourselves accountable for our results and support our colleagues in their achievements. We thrive on collaboration, connecting across CMHC and involving the right people to get our work done. Our leadership style is guided by trust
, where our leaders favour an adaptive approach based on the needs of their teams.

Join us and be part of a team that's committed to making a real difference and be part of something meaningful.

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.
• 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.

Join the Platform Engineering team, in the Bilingual Senior Specialist Software Engineering & Environment Management position, where we’re modernizing how CMHC builds and operates software platforms. As Senior Specialist, you’ll learn current model, design and evolve reusable infrastructure pipelines that provision, configure, and maintain CMHC’s cloud environments reporting to the platform engineering manager. Working with platform, security, and application teams, you’ll build automation that allows environment provision, patching, data refreshes, compliance self-service, scalability, and security.

This role is ideal for someone passionate about platform enablement, policy-as-code/Infrastructure-as-code and engineering excellence—helping CMHC teams deliver faster with confidence.

What you’ll do:

• Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and infrastructure pipelines (ARM, Azure, Bicep, Terraform, Helm) to provision and update Azure environments.
• Standardize automation patterns and reusable modules for environment setup, configuration, and data refresh.
• Partner with platform and Dev Ops teams to pair application CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation pipelines for full-stack delivery.
• Embed security controls, RBAC and policy-as-code into provisioning workflows to ensure compliance and consistency.
• Build self-service capabilities and documentation, enabling teams to deploy and refresh environments independently.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of monitoring, observability, and resilience within infrastructure pipelines.
• Coach engineers and analysts on IaC principles and Azure Dev Ops best practices.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or Engineering (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years in Dev Ops, cloud automation & Software delivery support.
• In depth experience with Azure services.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience embedding security and governance into automation workflows.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills to guide cross-functional teams.

• Dynamics 365 CRM, Dynamics 365 F&O ERP.
• Git Ops, policy-as-code tools (Azure Policy, OPA), and progressive delivery strategies.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD processes, leveraging software engineering.
• Terraform.

• Experience working in a Dev Ops enablement or platform team.
• Experience with solution packaging and deployment pipelines for Dynamics 365.
• Knowledge of progressive delivery strategies (feature flags, blue-green, canary).
• Familiarity with compliance automation and policy-as-code.
• Skills in building developer onboarding or paved road experiences.
• A Microsoft Certification as a Dev Ops Engineer Expert and/or Azure…