Associate Engineer II

Container Engineer

We are looking for a Container Engineer to work across multiple diverse businesses within TD to deliver enterprise capabilities and solutions on the Cloud. The perfect candidate will have previous public cloud experience delivering enterprise solutions within financial services including knowledge of the security and regulatory requirements.

You will work in collaboration with cloud engineering, network, security, and risk management to deliver bank secured solutions that meet security policies and standards within TD. You will collaborate with developers in our engineering team and lines of business to implement and continuously improve the framework and tools to support self-service automation of the platform.

You will develop custom code to automate building and automating the life cycles of containers.

You will have a strong passion for writing code to automate and integrate technologies and eliminate manual steps. You will work with our business developers and internal teams to maintain a backlog of features and integration enhancements to continue to automate the platform. You will develop code using our agile JIRA tools to manage a backlog of enhancements and bug-fixes. You will get the opportunity to work with Kubernetes to solve business problems with cutting-edge solutions to deliver on key business needs.

Key Accountabilities

• Design, deploy and manage containerized environments using Kubernetes, GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine), AKS or similar platform.
• Performs a broad range of activities as assigned to support Engineers and generally involve developing components of solutions with a focus non analytics, support, testing, and proof of concepts aligned to business and technology objectives.
• Develop new solutions as required for engineering programs and projects within assigned area and may also develop prototypes and proof of concepts aligned to business needs.
• Work with microservice architecture, designing APIs, managing Ingress controllers, and implementing service meshes for improved scalability and security. Develop CI/CD Pipelines using GitHub Actions/Workflows to build and deploy containers.
• Stay updated with emerging security threats and industry best practices related to container security and cloud-native technologies.
• Consult with vulnerability assessments, security audits and penetration testing to identity security gaps within containerized environments.
• Address security gaps identified within containerized environments.
• Provide guidance and support to developers and operations teams on secure containerization practices, images scanning and runtime protection.
• Document security configurations, procedures and guidelines for containerized environments, ensuring compliance with organizational standards and regulatory requirements.
• Monitor containerized environments to optimize performance and utilization Continuously enhance knowledge/expertise in own area and keep current with emerging industry trends, new technologies and best practices in the external market that can contribute to delivering effective client solutions
• Prioritize and manage own workload in order to deliver quality results and meet timelines
• Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Participate in knowledge transfer with senior management, the team, other technical areas · and business units
• Work effectively as a team, supporting other members of the team in achieving business objectives and providing client services
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team
• Understand relationships between work processes and the business and ensure awareness of costs related to own work
• Monitor product lifecycles, ensuring specifications and functionality support business objectives and engineering decisions, undertaking re-development where required
• Document and verify system components, applications, system infrastructure, security, integration, operability and engineering related architecture designs associated with a program or project
• Participate in quality management reviews, in particular reviews of the designs, prototypes and other requirements work products to ensure they fulfill the requirements
• Develop as-built program activities to establish the level of detail needed using configuration management processes
• Provide support with modifications to ensure the accuracy of drawings and other technical baseline documents
• Continuously enhance knowledge / expertise in own area and keep current with leading-edge technologies and trends
• Prioritize and manage own workload to deliver quality results and meet timelines
• Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Participating in knowledge transfer within the team and business units · Establish effective relationships across multiple business and technology partners, program and project managers
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency of the business unit

Experience & Education

• 3+ years of experience with Google cloud computing platform.
• 3+ years of experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE),AKS, Docker, Podman
• Familiarity with Cloud PaaS Services such as Google Cloud Run, Google GKE Autopilot and Anthos Service Mesh
• Experience developing CI/CD pipelines using technologies such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins.
• Experience using IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) tools such as Terraform, ARM, Bicep.
• Advanced understanding of DevOps/Platform Engineering principals. · Advanced programming/scripting skills in languages such as Python, Go, bash/shell, Java, NodeJS.
• Understanding of Network security principles, encryption protocols and identity management concepts.
• Understanding of Kubernetes Resource Types (i.e. Cluster Roles, Services, Deployments etc.)
• Experience developing Helm Charts · Experience implementing Kubernetes technologies such as Network Policies, Service Mesh, Certificate Manager, Ingress Controllers
• Experience developing compliance policies/scripts using tools such as Google Org Policy, Aquasec, Wiz.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace and Prometheus.
• Strong fundamental knowledge of Operating Systems (RHEL, Ubuntu) Demonstrated knowledge of container provisioning and administration, cloud bursting, cloud interoperability, cloud disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
• Strong academic background (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering )
• University or post graduate degree
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly with all levels within the team.
• Critical thinker with strong research and analytics skills.
• Initiative-taking individuals with a positive attitude and an ability to work independently and in a team
• Professional certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS), Certified Terraform Associate or other relevant security certifications (i.e. CISSP, CISM)