Cloud Platform Engineer

Join us at Manulife and be part of a team that strives for excellence, where your efforts will directly contribute to our success. Here, your work will have an important impact, and you’ll be empowered to make decisions that improve our marketing strategies and customer experience.

This engineering role is essential for driving efficiency and innovation within our organization. By developing and maintaining automation, this position helps streamline operations and improve efficiency, contributing to our mission of delivering high-quality products and platform services. This role is integral to our goal of continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Position Responsibilities:
• Design, develop, and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles to automate various tasks, configurations, deployments, and self-healing
• Implement and manage infrastructure as code principles to streamline and scale infrastructure management
• Integrate Ansible automation into CI/CD pipelines to facilitate continuous delivery and deployment
• Proven hands-on experience in writing, optimizing, and fixing Ansible playbooks and roles
• Understanding of infrastructure as code principles and practices
• Experience with version control systems like Git
• Knowledge of hardened automation techniques, such as vaulting secrets, RBAC, and encrypted communications

Required Qualifications:
• Last 2+ years of professional experience in production environment with a similar role
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
Preferred Qualifications:
• Developing Ansible playbooks, Familiarity with Azure and Terraform a plus
• Experience with Agile and DevOps principles, development methodologies that emphasize collaboration and efficiency for delivering new features
• Writing Terraform Templates

When you join our team:
• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
• As part of our distributed team, we’ll support you in crafting the future you want to see.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, *** (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), ****** orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact recruitment@manulife.com.