Cloud Governance Specialist

Job Description What is the Opportunity?

As aCloud Governance Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in shaping technical governance across RBC’s Hybrid Cloud and Intelligent Operations program. Your mission is todesign, author, and maintain cloud controls that define secure, compliant, and scalable cloud platform configurations across

Azure, AWS, and GCP.

You will translate enterprise risk, regulatory requirements, and architectural principlesintoclear, actionable, and technically precise platform controls, ensuring they are enforceable through automation (e.g., guardrails, policy-as-code). This role demands a focus oncontrol clarity, consistency, and enforce ability, balancing governance rigor with engineering practicality.

Key Impact
:
Enable RBC’s cloud transformation by establishing a robust governance framework that mitigates risk while fostering innovation.

• Author and maintain cloud platform controls, ensuring technical precision, platform specificity, and clarity on mandatory vs. discretionary requirements.
• Translate enterprise and regulatory expectations into risk-aligned, platform-implementable technical controls, collaborating with Cloud Security, Risk & Compliance, and Architecture teams.
• Manage the end-to-end controls lifecycle(draft, review, approve, publish, retire), including versioning, change control, and periodic relevance reviews.
• Define guardrail intentfor platform standards, ensuring technical enforce ability via tools like Azure Policy, AWS SCPs, and GCP Org Policies, and validating policy logic.
• Support exception workflows by assessing deviations, proposing compensating controls, and providing technical input for risk acceptance decisions.
• Act as a trusted advisorto product and engineering teams, explaining control rationale, application, and compliance expectations.
• Drive continuous improvement by refining controls based on monitoring feedback, eliminating ambiguity, and recommending new controls as platforms evolve.

Must have:

• 5+ years of experience in cloud governance, architecture, or engineering roles.
• Deep hands-on expertise in at least two of Azure, AWS, or GCP, including core services and architecture.
• Strong understanding of cloud fundamentals: service models (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS), shared responsibility, landing zones, and multi-account design.
• Expertise in cloud security domains:
  Identity & access, network security, logging/telemetry, encryption, and container platforms (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Ability to author clear, enforceable technical control sand align them with regulatory, risk, and compliance frameworks.
• Exceptional communication to translate complex technical concepts for leadership, engineering, risk and compliance teams.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills to analyze complex, ambiguous technical challenges and decompose them into actionable steps.
• Exposure to regulatory frameworks (OSFI, NIST, ISO, CSA CCM, etc.)

Nice-to-have
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• CISSP, CCSP, CISM, cloud certifications (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Experience in regulated industries (e.g. financial services)

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• A world-class training program in financial services
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work

Cloud Computing, Cloud Platform, Information Technology Trends, IT Service Design, IT Service Management (ITSM), Organizational Change Management, Product Services, Risk Management, Systems Thinking, Transformation Strategy

Address: RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:

TORONTO

City: Toronto

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