Azure Cloud Engineer - CARFAX Canada

CARFAX Canada is looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to help us build and promote a Cloud-native mindset within our Technical Operations team! If you love a challenge, have a passion for cloud-based software and want to work with a group of dynamic teams, we want to hear from you!

Working Here

At CARFAX Canada, we’re more than just obsessed with vehicles. We’re obsessed with data and its potential to help millions of Canadians in buying, selling, and maintaining vehicles.

But here’s what you really want to know about: the perks. Our team members enjoy weekly, free catered lunches at the office, flexible work that allows us to prioritize work-life balance, 4-day summer work weeks, and a state-of-the-art collaborative environment at our head office at 100 Kellogg Lane, London Ontario. CARFAX Canada also offers competitive wages, exceptional benefits and employee wellness funding, a company matched pension program, parental leave top-up benefits, paid volunteer days, and the list goes on!

Ultimately, every day at CARFAX Canada provides you with the opportunity to engage in meaningful work alongside incredible colleagues. It’s clear—we’re passionate about data and our people!

Key Information

Employment Status: Full-time

Job Type: Hybrid – In office with flexibility to manage your work schedule with up to 8 days per month to work from home

Location: London, Ontario

Please note that we have two operating entities in Canada, CARFAX Inc., and CARFAX Canada. This position is with CARFAX Canada.

Job Details

CARFAX Canada is excited to announce the position of Cloud Engineer. In this role you will work on-site from our London, ON office and report to our Manager, IT Operations & Security. The Cloud Engineer will be part of a dynamic operations team that is motivated to promote and adopt Cloud-native mindset.

You will work closely with engineering/architecture, Dev, DBAs and T2 support to help ensure that our production systems are architected, deployed, managed and monitored to the best of our ability.

Providing feedback to all teams will be key to striving towards a continuous delivery model. You will be required to learn, research, pilot and recommend new tools and technologies that can be leveraged to improve the way we work.

Position Responsibilities

• Architect, provision, and operationalize an enterprise cloud systems infrastructure to meet business requirements for reliability, scalability, performance and business SLA
• Administering CARFAX Canada’s infrastructure in the Azure public cloud, including Virtual Machines (Linux and Windows), networking, Azure App Services and Entra ID
• Provisioning new services in the Azure public cloud and complying with our backup strategies and policies
• Able to understand business requirements and decide on the required cloud resources to enable business current and future needs, and customers’ SLA
• Proactively monitor the cloud environment, foresee any possible challenges and take preventative measures to avoid any system outage or possible resource challenge
• Proactively optimize cloud usage while identifying and optimizing architecture to minimize cloud consumptions
• Contribute to efforts in automation, continuous deployment, build, and configuration management
• Advise on, and implement, best practices for monitoring, logging and alerting
• Own the availability, resilience and scalability of your solutions
• Document installations, procedures and requirements for systems/services
• Maintain cloud security while meeting the needs of the business without blocking progress
• Work closely with various internal teams to spec and plan new product and feature implementations
• Provide best practices, standards, and general support for the cloud environment
• Quickly learn new technologies and enforce industry best practices
• Provide Tier 3 support for infrastructure/system issues
• Be part of a rotating, after-hours, on-call schedule

Education and Experience Required

• 8+ years in different IT roles and/or infrastructure management
• 4+ years of experience working with Azure cloud environments
• 3+ years experience with Terraform

Must Have:

• Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) certification
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) certification

Nice to Have:

• Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) certification
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect expert (AZ-305) certification
• Microsoft Azure Developer Associate certification
• Microsoft Azure Security Technologies (AZ-500) certification
• Palo Alto Network Fundamentals certification

Other requirements:

• Experience with Azure Disaster recovery solutions with a focus on Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, Availability Zones, and Geo-Replication and failover groups
• Extensive experience working closely with cross function teams (Dev, QA, and business teams)
• Knowledge of databases (Microsoft T-SQL)
• Knowledge in architect and build pipelines, as well as end-to-end CI/CD process
• Extensive experience in Azure IaaS and PaaS
• Experience with container platforms preferably Kubernetes and/or Docker
• Experience with MS DevOps technology
• Experience with Atlassian Jira and Confluence
• Experience with Azure Virtual Firewall, Azure NSG’s
• Working knowledge of microservices architecture
• Master-level scripting and automation abilities
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting .NET applications
• Strong ability to multitask, time management and handle change
• Superior collaboration and cross function communication skills
• Superior organizational, time management, and planning skills

Equal Opportunity Employer

CARFAX Canada is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.

We’re committed to providing accommodations by request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process. For a confidential inquiry or to request an accommodation, please contact your recruiter or email hr@carfax.ca.

If you are interested in applying for this position, please visit our website https://www.carfax.ca/careers. Applications will be accepted until April 11, 2025.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

About Us

CARFAX’s mission is to help millions of people shop, buy, service and sell used cars with more confidence. As a leader in vehicle history and valuation, CARFAX provides impartial and comprehensive information for consumers and the automotive industry. CARFAX‘s Canadian headquarters in London, Ontario supports Canadian and U.S. markets, drawing on billions of data records from thousands of sources, enabling used vehicle buyers and sellers to make informed decisions. CARFAX is consistently recognized as a top employer and business. CARFAX is a part of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). Find out more at www.carfax.ca and connect with CARFAX on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Our values serve as the foundation of our culture by helping inform the actions and behaviours that make us successful. We strive to integrate these values into how we collaborate, navigate challenges, and make decisions daily.

Objective – Guided by facts, driven by results.

Transparent – Clarity through open and honest communication.

Customer advocate – Putting the customer at the center of everything we do.

Solutions oriented – Turning challenges into opportunities.

Integrity – Where honesty meets action.