What you’ll do

The IT Architecture team plays a key role in delivering Cloud transformation to the enterprise. We build and manage public cloud platforms on Azure, as well as the full developer toolchain including Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Terraform, Artifactory, and more. We’re constantly improving our platforms by updating and adding new services and partnering with our solution partners across CTC to deliver value through cloud enablement and automation.

Cloud Architects are domain experts delivering architecture and guidance to the Cloud Platform team and internal IT customers. Working in an agile team, you will leverage your cloud, DevOps, and architecture skills to deliver architecture artifacts (standards documents, “hello world” examples, platform services roadmap). You partner closely with other domain architects, engineers, and project leads to build enterprise grade solutions.

• Deliver quality work in an agile delivery model in a team environment
• Represent the Cloud Platform domain in the IT Architecture team
• Act as a trusted advisor and advocate for Cloud Platforms
• Liaise with other domain architects to establish strategy and mindshare
• Provide demos to Cloud Platform team
• Provide technical and approach leadership to the Cloud Platform team and stakeholders
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Support development programs to build cloud native applications
• Lead the building of cloud strategies and target reference architectures.
• Communicate timelines, dependencies, constraints, and progress quickly and effectively

What you bring

• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience
• 5+ years of technical experience in either development, operations, or full-stack implementations
• Expert in Azure
• Expert in developing infrastructure as code (Terraform, ARM templates, etc)
• Expert knowledge of Linux server administration
• Expert networking fundamentals including VNETs, subnetting, NSGs, routing, firewalls, DNS
• Expert in build automation tools such as Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible, Terraform, ADO, etc.
• Experience interpreting and applying security best practices to create, harden and secure infrastructure and applications
• Experience with container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes, Helm
• Experience working in a high security or heavily regulated environment
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment
• Experience with collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, JIRA and Confluence
• Excellent analytics, problem solving and solutioning skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Creative and courageous, with the ability to manage in an environment of change and ambiguity
• Action oriented, and comfortable taking calculated risks to better serve our customers and business
• Outcome focused, critical thinkers with the ability to analyze and visualize, to ensure continuous improvement across our entire business
• Collaborative team players with superior influencing skills, who build relationships easily across various stakeholder groups to move initiatives forward

Hybrid

We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.

About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.