Cloud & Platform Engineer
About The Position
Manulife Investment Management’s Quantitative Development team is a small group with a broad mandate to design and implement investment analysis at scale—from the firm-wide to the security-level—for $500B+ in investments across the Global Wealth and Asset Management segment. The team’s goal is to help the firm deliver more alpha, more efficiently. We are hiring a Cloud & Platform Engineer to help build and operate our Azure-based cloud ecosystem and platforms. This role is suited to an engineer with 3 to 5 years of experience who is comfortable working across cloud native development, platform services, DevOps practices, and day-to-day engineering support. You will work on a modern ecosystem and platform landscape that includes Azure cloud services, Kubernetes and container platforms, event-driven integration, CI/CD automation, secrets and access management, and production operations. The role is hands-on and practical: you will help improve developer experience, platform reliability, automation, and delivery speed for data, application, and analytics workloads.
Requirements
- 3 to 5 years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering.
- Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform (Microsoft Azure preferred; AWS or Google Cloud experience is also acceptable).
- Practical experience with containers and Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, or GKE).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Experience with scripting or automation using at least one language such as Python and Bash.
- Familiarity with infrastructure, networking, identity, and security fundamentals in cloud environments.
- Experience troubleshooting application, API, platform or infrastructure issues in cloud environments.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work across partner teams.
Nice To Haves
- 3 years of proven experience working in a managed Kubernetes environment (AKS preferred; EKS or GKE also considered).
- 3 years of experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Experience with Azure services such as Event Hubs, Event Grid, Azure Cloud Storage, API Management and Key Vault, or equivalent services on AWS or Google Cloud.
- Knowledge of API development and complementary tools such as FastAPI and Swagger.
- Experience with Docker, Helm, GitHub Actions, or GitOps-style deployment workflows.
- Experience supporting Azure Ubuntu virtual machines, including Linux-based VM administration, troubleshooting, and operational support.
- Familiarity with event-driven architecture and platform integration patterns.
- Exposure to workflow or data platform tooling such as Airflow, Databricks, or similar analytics platforms.
- Understanding of platform reliability, operational readiness, and production support practices.
Responsibilities
- Develop, build, operate, and improve Azure-based platform, services and cloud environments.
- Support containerized workloads running on Azure Kubernetes platforms (AKS), Azure VM and related runtime patterns.
- Help engineer and maintain platform components such as Azure Blob Storage, Azure File Share, Event Grid, Event Hubs, Key Vault, API Management and other Azure Cloud services.
- Contribute to DevOps and platform engineering practices including CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, environment management, monitoring and operational mandate.
- Support event-driven and scheduled workload patterns across platform services and compute environments.
- Partner with application, data and analytics teams to onboard workloads onto shared platform capabilities.
- Troubleshoot incidents, deployment issues, scaling problems, and integration failures in lower and production environments.
- Improve observability, reliability, security, and cost discipline across the platform.
- Support Kubernetes-based application development, deployment, configuration, scaling, and troubleshooting.
- Assist with platform automation for build, release, configuration, and environment setup.
- Help maintain secure secrets, identity, and access patterns using services such as Azure Key Vault and managed identity.
- Contribute to monitoring and operational tooling using Azure-native observability and logging solutions.
- Work with senior engineers to improve platform standards, reusable patterns, and self-service capabilities.
- Handle provision and Azure resources request process.
- Participate in production support, root cause analysis, and follow-up remediation work.
- Document technical designs, runbooks, and platform operating procedures clearly.
Benefits
- health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans.
- various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources.
- holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days
- full range of statutory leaves of absence
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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