Senior Cloud Engineer, Infrastructure as Code

Requisition

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Contributes to the overall success of the Global Information Security and Control division, ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted adhere to governing regulations, internal policies.

The Role:
The Senior Cloud Engineer, Infrastructure as Code within Cloud Platform Engineering at Scotiabank Canada is a senior individual contributor role focused on accelerating and enabling enterprise-wide cloud adoption through strong engineering practices, reusable infrastructure patterns, and cross team collaboration.

This role is aligned under the Cloud Product organization and operates horizontally across Cloud Engineering verticals rather than being embedded in a single focus delivery team. You will work across Azure and GCP, integrating with multiple delivery models and closely working with the CIO‑aligned teams consuming our patterns to better help them operationalize secure, scalable, and compliant Cloud solutions. You will help to bridge gaps with CIO teams, prioritizing and meeting their needs that in turn improves cloud platform engineering reach and adoptability.

Rather than owning a single platform, service, or execution lane, Senior Cloud Engineers in this role are expected to apply sound engineering judgment across a variety of problem spaces; balancing standards, delivery realities, and evolving platform capabilities.

What You’ll Do:

Cross Platform Enablement

• Integrate with multiple cloud delivery initiatives across Azure and GCP.
• Support internal teams consuming cloud platforms by providing guidance on infrastructure design, deployment patterns, and operational best practices.
• Operate effectively across varied delivery models without being tied to a single backlog or pipeline.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Develop, extend, and support the adoption of reusable Terraform modules, cloud and Dev Ops patterns across the enterprise.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in existing cloud foundations, onboarding workflows, shared infrastructure pipelines, and tenant consumables.
• Apply practical engineering judgment to improve IaC solutions to meet unique CIO needs while maintaining compatibility with existing environments.

Governance & Compliance Support

• Contribute to the evolution of policy‑as‑code and governance mechanisms (e.g., Hashi Corp Sentinel, Open Policy Agent).
• Support regulated cloud environments, including the creation and enhancement of cloud platform landing zones to achieve PCI and other compliance frameworks.
• Help ensure governance controls are effective, scalable, and adoptable by delivery teams.

Developer Experience and CI/CD Contributions

• Participate in both traditional virtual machine and container‑based platforms development and adoption, including self-service consumable patterns and internally managed as a service Kubernetes offerings.
• Contribute to CI/CD workflows and automation supporting infrastructure and platform delivery (e.g., Git Hub Actions).
• Identify common failure patterns and contribute improvements that increase reliability and developer experience.

Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing

• Collaborate closely with Principal Engineers across cloud domains to align solutions with platform standards and product direction.
• Share knowledge through documentation, design discussions, demos, and code reviews.
• Provide informal mentorship and guidance to other engineers when working across teams.

What You'll Bring:

• Strong hands‑on experience with Terraform and shared IaC codebases.
• Experience with Kubernetes patterns (Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD/Flux).
• Practical experience across Azure and GCP, supporting VM, Kubernetes and other cloud-native workloads.
• Familiarity with infrastructure CI/CD and cloud governance in regulated environments.
• Comfort operating in brownfield environments and improving platforms incrementally.
• Comfortable working independently on complex ambiguous problems and collaborating across organizational boundaries to solve them.
• Demonstrated technical…