Cloud Engineer - 12-month contract

Gore Mutual Insurance•Cambridge, ON

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Gore Mutual, we’ve always set ourselves apart as a modern mutual that does good. Now, we’re proudly building on that legacy to transform our company—and our industry—for the better. Effective January 1, 2026, Gore has joined Beneva—the country’s largest mutual insurance company—as part of its Property & Casualty operations in Ontario and Western Canada. During 2026, Gore will combine its operations with Unica Insurance, Beneva’s Ontario-based subsidiary specializing in niche commercial and personal insurance, creating a stronger, more diversified mutual insurer with greater scale and long-term stability. Every decision and investment remains anchored in long-term benefits to customers, members, and communities. Come join us. Cloud Engineer is a key role as this will automate, evolve, and establish a scalable cloud platform across the company optimizing for self-service and governance. The role will work with both Cloud Native platforms Azure and AWS, leverage tools like Kubernetes (AKS), and Cloud Hosting providers offerings like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS ensuring consistent experience and high standards are established.

Requirements

Undergraduate degree in Information Technology with MS or AWS Cloud Certification desirable
3-5 years of hands-on experience in Azure AKS
Minimum 3 years of good knowledge in building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
Minimum 4 years Azure Cloud Platform
Minimum 2 years Azure DevOps experience
Proficient in Administrating Azure laaS/PaaS, Azure Virtual Machines, VNET, Network services, Azure DevOps,
Hands on experience on SQL Databases, Storages, AzureActive Directory, Monitoring, Autoscaling,
Hands on experience in Azure Blueprint, Azure Site Recovery and Azure backup
PowerSheII Automation, Azure Search, DNS,VPU extensive
4+ years’ working experience of Azure SQL and Cloud platform
Strong understanding of Terraform
Hands on experience on Load Balancers, AzurePolicies, AzureKayVault and Tagging
Expertise in Microsoft Azure Cloud services (SAAS, PASS and IAAS)
Monitoring Azure infrastructure and logs
Strong knowledge of Azure Networking, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Active Directory
Experience with Load Balancers, AzurePolicies, AzureKayVault and Tagging
Experience with Cloud and other traditional monitoring technologies, as well as hands on experience instrumenting alerts based on aggregated logs and analytics output.

Responsibilities

Maintain Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure
Utilize best practices to ensure backup and recovery techniques for applications on Azure platform.
Supporting and maintaining Azure cloud infrastructure
Implementing deploying workloads on Azure virtual machines
Container technologies i.e. Kubernetes & AKS
Utilize Terraform code to deploy multiple resource groups, VMs, and VNETs
Upgrading version and certificates
Load Balancers, AzurePolicies, AzureKayVault and Tagging
Expertise in Microsoft Azure Cloud services (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS)
Monitoring Azure infrastructure and logs
Maintain Azure cloud AKS
Administration of AKS clusters
Configuring web apps, Azure App services, Azure DNS, Azure traffic manager, App services and Azure Application gateway,
Managing the Azure Kubernetes Services policies, providing access to different Azure resources managing secrets, firewalls, PODS, containers.
Injecting data in applications
Troubleshooting cluster related issues
Cluster AutoScaler and load balancers for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Terraform and worked with scheduling deploying, and managing pods and replicas in AKS
Working knowledge in deploying CI/CD system using Azure DevOps and Kubernetes container environment
Azure Automation
Good knowledge of building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
Creating Ansible play books, Dockers and Jenkins
Working knowledge on json, yaml, Terraform and Helm chart
Participate on an on-call rotation and be available for out of office hours support when needed