Global Cloud Architect

Why Crawford? :

People taking care of people. It’s that simple. We are looking for passionate and compassionate people to join our team to help deliver on our purpose to restore lives, businesses and communities. Built on a foundation of over 80 years of unmatched global expertise and fueled by industry-leading technology, we are at the forefront of change. When you join Crawford & Company, you become part of a global network of professionals working together in over 70 countries with the common purpose to help people through what might be one of the most difficult times in their lives.

At Crawford, you are empowered to grow, emboldened to act and inspired to innovate. Do you have the courage, drive and empathy to make a real difference? Then we want to hear from you. Learn more at www.crawco.ca.

We are currently recruiting for a Global Cloud Architect to join our team in Toronto, ON.

The successful candidate will play a key role in the global delivery of solutions using Azure IaaS and PaaS technologies within a DevOps environment.  Working closely with those responsible for the delivery of solutions from infrastructure, development and data. The primary responsibility to ensure the full lifecycle of infrastructure support primarily within Azure cloud space is provisioned for the demands of solution delivery via DevOps. Secondary responsibility will be to constantly review, suggest and where agreed implement process and solution improvements whilst respecting security, governance and change management requirements.  Expect to work closely with those responsible for solution delivery.  

• Collaborate with Development, Operations, Enterprise Architecture and Security teams to ensure alignment of the cloud strategy and architecture with business objectives and requirements
• Positively contribute to technical discussions and working groups to ensure best practice
• Implement and maintain cloud infrastructure, services, and applications, using automation tools and frameworks, such as Terraform
• Monitor and troubleshoot cloud performance, availability, and security issues, using tools and metrics, such as CloudWatch
• Optimize and enhance cloud efficiency, scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness, using techniques and methods, such as load balancing, auto-scaling, caching, etc.
• Champion the team’s vision, strategy, policies and capability with Corporate and Business IT leadership
• Work with Corporate and Business IT leadership and trusted partners to set the long term strategic direction for cloud services and best practices
• Establish SLAs with partners and vendors

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in cloud computing and architecture in either AWS or Azure
• Completion of a college or university bachelor degree in information systems/technology or equivalent in education and/or combination of work experience.
• AWS and/or Azure certification preferred
• Strong knowledge and skills in cloud technologies and platforms, such as EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, VPC, SNS, SQS, CloudFormation, etc. for AWS; or VM, Storage, Functions, SQL, VNet, Event Grid, Service Bus, ARM, etc. for Azure
• Extensive knowledge and demonstrable experience of deploying and supporting AWS or Azure (preferably both)
• Ability to use Terraform to implement new and support existing infrastructure as code deployments Extensive knowledge of Azure DevOps implementation and support
• Experience with migrating and running applications in public cloud environments including hands on experience
• Strong knowledge of system analysis methods and techniques
• Strong understanding of networking techniques, especially as related to cloud deployments
• Understands technology at a detailed level but can express concepts simply to non-technical colleagues
• Proven ability to work with multi-disciplined teams e.g. application developers, DevOps engineers, on premise infrastructure engineers etc.
• Proven ability analyzing workflow and requirements so tasks can be effectively delegated and targets met

We thank all applicants for their interest in Crawford & Company however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Crawford is an Employment Equity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.

Crawford is committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process, in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and Crawford’s own policies. We will work with applicants requesting accommodations at any stage of the hiring process. Applicants are required to provide their accommodation needs in advance and submit adequate documentation to support their request for accommodation in the assessment process and/or to perform the essential duties of the posted position. If you have an accommodation need, please email resumes@crawco.ca as soon as possible to make appropriate arrangements.

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