City : Toronto, ON

Category : Full time, Information Technology

Industry : Retail Goods

Employer : Canadian Tire

What you’ll do

Our Technology team plays a critical role in our evolution, specifically as we transition to an omni-retailer where digital complements the physical. Our commitment to being a world-class digital organization is evident in how we are using cutting-edge technologies to bring our digital strategy to life in-store, online and on your mobile devices, ultimately improving customer experiences, driving traffic, and boosting loyalty.

As a member of the Digital Architecture Team, you will help lead our efforts to build and enhance our eCommerce platform in the cloud. You are the go-to expert for platform architecture and the design of our cloud-based distributed microservices platform on Azure. You have a deep understanding of the capabilities, limitations and design patterns for Azure components, and how to use them to deliver positive customer outcomes. You are experienced with microservices integration and orchestration patterns in large enterprises, and how to implement them in Azure. This role owns the platform architecture for the Azure infrastructure, Kubernetes platform, and related services supporting eCommerce. Additionally, this role will lead efforts related to platform engineering including supporting our DevOps practice and partnering with our development chapters to deliver efficiencies in our engineering practices.

• Lead the architecture of cloud-based solutions on Azure with a focus on platform considerations, Azure infrastructure, and microservices

• Own the platform engineering domain within the Digital team

• Drive enhancements and efficiencies in our engineering practices

• Large focus on API design and deployment practices including advanced versioning, canary style deployments

• Be the primary architect to support our DevOps and SRE Team

• Oversee pipeline design and configurations to support automated provisioning of Azure based infrastructure and services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Support the design of application deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for a diverse set of applications

• Support the DevOps team on cost optimization for cloud-based workloads

• Drive investigation and adoption of new and emerging cloud capabilities

• Modernize engineering practices and on-going cloud infrastructure optimization

• Lead projects, create architectural artifacts, coach, mentor, and encourage team members

• Partner with multiple technical and business stakeholders providing technical expertise for cloud related issues

• Work with the SRE team to ensure cloud-based solutions provide sufficient telemetry to support SLAs and operations

• Provide hands-on-keyboard support to the team where required

What you bring

• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience

• 7+ years I.T. experience in progressive analysis and design related positions

• 3+ years of experience deploying cloud-based solutions

• 3+ years of experience implementing foundational cloud services (networking, security, account/organizations, logging & monitoring, identity access management, etc.)

• 3+ years hands-on experience operating cloud based microservices and workloads with a demonstrated ability maintain high availability, secure and automated deployments

• 3+ years designing, implementing, and supporting Azure infrastructure and topologies

• At least one Azure Certification

• Strong hands-on experience with cloud automation and orchestration tooling and practices including git, terraform, ADO/GitHub, ARM or equivalents

• Strong hands-on experience with microservices tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, service mesh, API Gateways

• Strong experience working with storage and messaging services such as Azure Service Bus, Azure Blob Storage, RDMS, and NoSQL

• Experience interpreting and applying security best practices to create, harden and secure infrastructure and applications

• Strong architectural experience in public cloud container services (AKS)

• Understanding of microservices based applications/development using NodeJS (preferred) and cloud-based services

• Understanding of the cloud ecosystem and leading-edge emerging technologies (e.g. Serverless)

• Understanding of event-driven/reactive architectures and integrations

• Experience configuring and tuning virtual private clouds

• Understanding of TLS/SSL, encryption, and key management principles

• Experience with Cloud-native KMS and/or HashiCorp Vault

• Experience working in an Agile environment

• Excellent analytics, problem solving and solutioning skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

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.

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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.