Principal Cloud Engineer (SeniorLead)

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Role: Principal Cloud Engineer (Senior/Lead).

Location: Toronto ON (Onsite).

Duration: Long Term Contract.

Job Overview
Lead the architecture of Always-On event-driven ecosystems that power real-time organizational intelligence. This principal role owns distributed systems design Kafka/Solace streaming platforms and Kubernetes-orchestrated microservices at enterprise scale.

Architecture Ownership
Event-Driven Platforms

Kafka: Multi-DC clusters MirrorMaker2 Schema Registry exactly-once semantics
Solace: PubSub event mesh dynamic topics guaranteed delivery
MQ: High-availability queueing XA transactions JMS standards

Cloud-Native Infrastructure

AKS: Multi-cluster federation autoscaling service mesh (Istio/Linkerd)
Docker: Multi-stage builds security scanning registry management
Hadoop: Hybrid migration (HDFS ADLS) Hive metastore federation
IaC: Terraform Bicep Azure Policy as Code

Microservices Excellence

REST Standards: OpenAPI 3.0 OAuth2/JWT API gateway patterns
Event Schemas: Avro/Protobuf backward/forward compatibility
Observability: Prometheus Grafana Jaeger distributed tracing

Required Expertise (6-10 years)

3 years production Kafka (KRaft mode tiered storage Connect framework)
2 years Kubernetes (AKS cluster management HPA/VPA network policies)
Azure architecture (AKS Event Hubs Cosmos DB hybrid connectivity)
Solace/MQ production (event mesh guaranteed messaging QoS levels)
Hadoop migration experience (HDFS ADLS Gen2 Hive Synapse)
Technical leadership (mentoring architecture reviews standards definition)

Demonstrated Impact

Designed Kafka clusters processing 1M events/sec with 99.99% uptime
Led monolith microservices migration reducing deployment time 80%
Implemented hybrid Hadoop-Azure patterns serving petabyte workloads
Established enterprise API standards adopted across 50 services

Role: Principal Cloud Engineer (Senior/Lead). Location: Toronto ON (Onsite). Duration: Long Term Contract. Job Overview Lead the architecture of Always-On event-driven ecosystems that power real-time organizational intelligence. This principal role owns distributed systems design Kafka/Solace str...