Platform Engineer

Join our Enterprise Technology Services team!

Be part of the Cloud Engineering team that strives for excellence where your efforts will directly contribute to our success. Your work will have an important impact and youll be empowered to make decisions that improve our strategies and customer experience.

The Platform Engineer is responsible for designing implementing and maintaining secure access controls across Azure environments using Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). This role ensures that users applications and services have the appropriate permissions required to operate while maintaining strict alignment. The engineer will work closely with cloud architects operations teams and security partners to deliver scalable auditable and compliant access governance.

Position Responsibilities:

• Design configure and manage Azure RBAC to control access across management groups subscriptions resource groups and individual resources.

• Work with security principals (users groups service principals managed identities) to ensure correct and secure access assignments.

• Create maintain and optimize role definitions including builtin and custom roles tailored to operational requirements.

• Resolve access issues using Azure IAM tools activity logs and resource provider permission mappings.

• Partner with engineering and application teams to integrate Managed Identities.

• Support data-plane and control-plane access strategies for services such as compute storage networking and databases.

• Conduct periodic access reviews identify risks and implement remediation plans in collaboration with governance teams.

• Contribute to automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaaC) processes (ARM Bicep Terraform) for consistent RBAC deployment and audit-ability.

• Document RBAC patterns playbooks standard processes and architectural guidance for internal engineering teams.

Required Qualifications:

• Understanding of server infrastructure virtualization and cloud computing.

• Solid understanding of Azure environment and Azure Resource Manager (ARM).

• In-depth knowledge of cloud platforms and networking principle.

• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC).

• Technical knowledge of infrastructure components.

• Experience automating infrastructure provisioning developer operations and/or continuous integration/delivery.

• Understanding of security controls for the public Cloud

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Cloud computing.

• Automation and Infrastructure as Code.

• Networking and Security.

• Identity and Access Management.

• Cloud-based architecture API Gateways.

• Last 2 years of professional experience in production environment with a similar role.

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.

When you join our team:

Well empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

Well recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

As part of our global team well support you in shaping the future you want to see.

The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

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 is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge skills qualifications experience and education/training. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location please contact for the salary range for your location.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits including health dental mental health vision short- and long-term disability life and AD&D insurance coverage adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays vacation personal and sick days and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S. please contact for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.

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