26 Cloud Architect jobs in Canada

Job Description

Cloud Architect (Azure, AWS, C#.Net, Java)

Contract, 6 months (high possibility of extension)

Greater Toronto Area (hybrid/ remote)

Responsible for strategic planning, design, and implementation of cloud infrastructure and services, ensuring they align with organizational goals, optimize resource utilization, maintain high levels of security and compliance, enable seamless scalability and performance, and facilitate efficient management and monitoring of cloud environments.

Must Have

• Extensive experience with AWS and Azure
• 10+ years with C#.Net
• Extensive experience with Java

Nice to have:

• Experience working within banking, financial services, or insurance

Cloud Architect (Azure, AWS, C#.Net, Java)

Contract, 6 months (high possibility of extension)

Greater Toronto Area (hybrid/ remote)

Responsible for strategic planning, design, and implementation of cloud infrastructure and services, ensuring they align with organizational goals, optimize resource utilization, maintain high levels of security and compliance, enable seamless scalability and performance, and facilitate efficient management and monitoring of cloud environments.

Must Have

• Extensive experience with AWS and Azure
• 10+ years with C#.Net
• Extensive experience with Java

Nice to have:

• Experience working within banking, financial services, or insurance

English

• Information technology
• Computer science

Work must be completed both in person and remotely.

Job Description

Position: Cloud Architect – CEPH & OpenStack
Location: Ottawa, ON (Remote or Hybrid considered)
Start Date: October 1st, 2025
Security Clearance: Secret (Mandatory)
Contract Type: Independent Contractor
Client: Shared Services Canada (SSC)

Shared Services Canada (SSC) is seeking a highly experienced Cloud Architect to support a critical infrastructure modernization initiative. This role requires deep expertise in CEPH storage and OpenStack, and a proven ability to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing cloud solutions in government environments.

The selected resource must have an active Secret clearance and be available to start by October 1st, 2025.

• Lead the design and implementation of secure, enterprise-grade OpenStack cloud environments.
• Architect and manage CEPH storage clusters to support high availability, scalability, and performance.
• Align cloud solutions with SSC’s security and compliance standards, including ITSG-33.
• Collaborate with SSC teams to implement cloud automation, orchestration, and monitoring.
• Produce technical documentation including architecture diagrams, configuration standards, and deployment plans.
• Provide expert guidance on best practices for cloud operations, optimization, and cost management.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience as a Cloud Architect, with significant experience in OpenStack and CEPH.
• Hands-on experience with OpenStack services (Nova, Neutron, Glance, Cinder, Keystone, etc.).
• Proven experience deploying and maintaining CEPH storage solutions in production.
• Strong understanding of virtualization, networking, and secure infrastructure design.
• Experience with automation and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, etc.
• Secret clearance (active) is mandatory for submission.
• Ability to start no later than October 1st, 2025.

• Knowledge of container platforms such as Kubernetes or Docker.
• Prior work with Shared Services Canada or other Government of Canada departments.
• Familiarity with cloud governance and cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., ITSG-33, NIST).

Job Description

We are looking for a Cloud Solution Architect - Infrastructure to design the structure of our clients IT systems and oversee programs to ensure the proper architecture is implemented.

In this role, you should be an excellent communicator who is able to translate complex requirements into functional architecture. We’d also like you to have hands-on experience in software development and be able to manage complex programs.

Your goal will be to ensure our internal IT framework operates properly.

Responsibilities

This is a customer facing role, owning the overall technical relationship between the customer and Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and Applications Development Platform. You will own the Cloud Infrastructure and Azure Applications Development technical customer engagements including architectural design sessions, specific implementation projects and/or pilots. The ideal candidate will have experience leading deep technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, IT Management and Developers.

Understanding Customer/Partner Technical Environment

• Observes colleagues and learns how to gather customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs) and align with solutions.
• Acts as the voice of the customer (VOC)/partner by learning to identify and share feedback around technical capabilities, gaps, blockers, and insights that relate to the customer/partner with internal teams, using established channels (e.g., UAT/TFT).
  

Architecture Design and Deployment

• Leverages an existing architecture approach or reference architecture to propose a solution or achieve Microsoft's agreed commitments to the customer/partner. Assesses customer/partner needs and gathers information that helps others to identify growth opportunities.
• Solicits input from others to contribute to proposals for viable solutions based on specific technical products. demonstrates basic technical concepts and proves those design solutions capability through design collaboration sessions with the customer/partner.
• Applies foundational technical knowledge of an architecture solution to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified technical constraints.
• Supports customer/partner projects as needed for specified architecture solutions by investigating a solution area and assisting in research and testing out concepts developed by more senior architects.
• Identifies technical blockers (e.g., changing configurations, sample coding) for selected products to accelerate architecture implementations and routes non-technical issues for removal by the appropriate party.
• Applies methodology and governance, as directed, to minimize business and technical risks and adhere to quality assurance while contributing to design and/or delivery of solutions (e.g. Well-Architected Framework, Enterprise Scale Landing Zone, Cloud Adoption Framework). Demonstrates an understanding of customer/partner conditions of success.
  

Practice Development

• Supports research projects and contributes to scoping surveys for customers/partners to assess potential intellectual property (IP) needs or process changes.
  

Trusted Advisor

• Works with internal teams and begins building relationships with customer/partner/MCS technical specialists under the guidance and supervision of others.
• Respectfully challenges customers/partners when going in the wrong direction and escalates appropriately.
• Learns Microsoft solutions and demonstrates an understanding of Microsoft's value to customers/partners.
  

Thought Leadership

• Provides input to virtual team members (e.g., Account team, enterprise channel managers, partner development manager (PDMs)) when asked, using a basic knowledge of specific Microsoft architectures and other relevant products. Actively looks for relevant communities to learn from.
• Participates in external architect community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and shares learnings with the internal team.
  

Customer Usage

• Participates in discussions around architecture design, resiliency reviews, and technical optimization that result in production deployment application and increase customer business value. Ensures that the customer's environment and applications are well-architected.