The Cloud Support Engineer elsewhere

ABOUT THE JOB

What do you think of when you hear the name MNP? Most likely tax and accounting, but as one of Canada’s largest consulting organizations, we’re so much more! We’re also serious about technology.

Make an impact with MNP Digital as a Cloud Engineer. As a Cloud Engineer, you will be an integral part of the team responsible for shaping and delivering modern cloud solutions, strategies, and migrations for our clients. As a member of the Cloud Technology team, you will analyze, design and implement cloud-based solutions to address our client’s needs for infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service. We are looking for sharp, disciplined, and self-motivated individuals who have a passion for utilizing cloud solutions from Microsoft Azure or AWS to solve real business problems for our customers.

At MNP Digital, our strength is our people. An investment in our people is an investment in our success. You will have the opportunity to learn from leaders in their fields, develop new skills, and cultivate new relationships to support your career goals. If you’re ready to take your career into your own hands, you’ve come to the right place. It Starts Here!

Responsibilities

• Help enable public cloud platforms for our clients while primarily focusing on Azure.
• Understand business goals and drivers and translate those into an appropriate technical solution.
• Create innovative solutions leveraging cloud platforms to solve client business challenges.
• Gather requirements, assess client capabilities/needs and analyze findings to provide appropriate cloud recommendations and adoption strategy.
• Research, analyze, recommend and select technical approaches for solving difficult and challenging development and integration problems.
• Design, build, test, and deploy highly scalable and resilient cloud-based artefacts.
• Demonstrate expertise via client workshops and whiteboard sessions.
• Create conceptual, logical and physical designs for cloud-based solutions for infrastructure and platforms.
• Learn and adopt new tools and techniques to increase performance, automation and scalability.
• Share the leading practices with internal team members and clients.
• Collaborate as part of larger delivery teams, including project managers, business analysts, architects, developers, and other professionals.
• Work with many areas of our client’s technologies, including but not limited to networking, compute, storage, information security, risk, enterprise identity and access management, and security operations.
• Be customer-oriented, diligent, proactive, and focused on achieving customer business objectives as a top priority.

Skills And Experience

• 4+ years of project experience migrating and deploying cloud-based solutions with a focus on Azure or AWS
• Associate or Expert level certifications from Azure or AWS
• Project experience implementing core infrastructure, networking and cloud-based services.
• Deep product knowledge and understanding of product features, including:
  • Azure or AWS
  • IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Solutions
  • Networking
  • Security
  • Identity
  • Virtualization
  • Hybrid Cloud Solutions
• Deep knowledge and understanding of High Availability and Disaster Recovery principles, patterns and usage.
• An understanding of cloud ecosystem and leading-edge cloud emerging technologies.
• Experience configuring and tuning cloud-hosted solutions and platforms.
• Experience supporting production applications or workloads in a cloud-based environment.
• Experience with performance analysis, troubleshooting and remediation techniques.
• Experience with encryption and key management principles and design patterns.
• Experience with networking principles and technologies (DNS, Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies, WAF etc.).
• Experience with automation and DevOps principles.
• Practical experience sizing hardware and storage needs.
• Strong analytical problem-solving ability.
• Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills.
• Be a self-starter with the ability to work independently or as part of a project team with limited supervision.
• Experience collaborating across multiple functional/technical teams to deliver a project.
• Demonstrate growth mindset, enthusiastic about learning new technologies quickly and applying the gained knowledge to address business problems.
• The candidate must be able to undergo a criminal record check and federal security clearance screening.

MyRewards@MNP

More than a paycheque, MNP is proud to offer customized rewards for our team members. With a focus on health and wealth, we provide an extensive list of benefits that support our unique culture and foster work-life integration.

Our MyRewards@MNP program offers benefits that allow you to thrive at work and outside of the office. Be rewarded with generous paid time off including 4 personal days, firm-sponsored social events, a group pension plan with a 4% matching contribution, voluntary savings products, bonus program eligibility, a wellness subsidy, health and dental benefits, mental health resources, exclusive access to perks and discounts, professional development assistance, learning opportunities through MNP University, a flexible ‘Dress For Your Day’ environment and more!

BENEFITS FOUND IN THE JOB POST

• Pension plan