Lead Cloud Platform Engineer, Azure in Toronto

You’ll own the Azure platform that Thomson Reuters product engineering teams build on: the infrastructure itself — networking, identity, AKS, deployment pipelines — and equally the experience of using it. The role is based in Canada and supports infrastructure rollouts across multiple global regions, which means data residency, regional compliance obligations, and cross-region resilience are part of your daily thinking rather than edge cases. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor position with broad technical authority.

What you’ll do:

• Own infrastructure as code. Define, extend, and maintain our Azure estate in Bicep, deployed through automated pipelines with peer review and preview gates.
• Operate Kubernetes at production scale. Own our AKS platform end to end — cluster architecture and upgrades, node pool strategy, networking, workload identity, autoscaling, resource governance, and cost.
• Support the engineering teams running workloads on it and be their escalation path when clusters misbehave.
• Run identity and access. Administer Entra ID (Azure AD) for engineering — RBAC design, least-privilege role assignments, PIM and just-in-time elevation, managed identities and workload identity federation, access reviews.
• Be the technical lead for compliance audits. Serve as the platform subject-matter expert for SOC2, HIPAA, and ISO27001: produce evidence, explain controls to auditors and assessors, and close findings.
• Handle multi-region and data residency requirements. Design regional deployment patterns that satisfy residency and sovereignty obligations while keeping the platform coherent and operable from a single set of code and pipelines.
• Consult engineering teams on infrastructure decisions. Partner with product teams early on service design, data store selection, network posture, scaling strategy, and cost.
• Design for scale. Apply Azure’s scaling primitives to help applications meet demand predictably and economically.
• Own resilience. Design and test multi-AZ and multi-region architectures, define RTO/RPO with product owners, and build and rehearse disaster recovery and backup restore procedures.
• Make the platform observable. Build and troubleshoot with Log Analytics, Container Insights, and Application Insights.
• Secure the estate. Manage secrets in Key Vault, drive Defender for Cloud and Defender for Containers findings to resolution, and keep patching, image hygiene, and vulnerability remediation moving.
• Manage cost. Maintain tagging and showback so teams see their spend, and drive right-sizing and commitment-based savings across regions.
• Participate in incident response. Join the on-call rotation for platform services, lead or contribute to blameless postmortems, and turn findings into durable fixes.
• Multiply other engineers. Write documentation people actually read, build reusable Bicep modules and golden-path templates, mentor engineers, and raise the bar in design and code review.

About You:

• 5+ years operating Microsoft Azure in production for cloud-native applications, including at least one environment with real availability and compliance obligations.
• Production AKS or equivalent Kubernetes experience.
• Deep infrastructure-as-code practice with Bicep (or strong ARM/Terraform experience).
• Hands-on Entra ID / Azure AD administration.
• A demonstrated role in a SOC2, HIPAA, or ISO27001 audit as a technical expert.
• Azure networking fluency.
• Strong troubleshooting in Log Analytics and Application Insights.
• Practical knowledge of Azure scaling and resilience.
• Working proficiency in at least one programming language plus PowerShell or Azure CLI for automation.
• CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• The ability to influence without authority.

Nice to have:

• Azure Policy and landing zone or Cloud Adoption Framework implementation at enterprise scale.
• Experience with healthcare or other regulated data beyond HIPAA.
• GitOps tooling and progressive delivery.
• FinOps or cost-optimization track record.
• Multi-cloud exposure or cloud migration experience.
• Infrastructure for AI/ML workloads.
• Relevant certification (AZ-305, AZ-500, CKA).

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities.
• Career Development and Growth: Culture of continuous learning and skill development.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: Comprehensive benefit plans including flexible vacation and mental health resources.
• Culture: Award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging.
• Social Impact: Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and ESG initiatives.

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