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Manager, Solutions Engineering

General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada
Ottawa, CAN
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
CAD 140,000 to CAD 170,000 annually
Discovered 4 days ago
Solutions engineeringMicrosoft AzureAmazon Web ServicesCloud architecture and landing zonesTerraformAWS CloudFormation

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Role overview

Recognized Solutions Engineering expert and advisor advancing a cloud-first strategy for Canadian operations, primarily using Microsoft Azure with some AWS.

Provides direction for designing, implementing, automating, documenting, and supporting secure, scalable, resilient, cost-effective solutions aligned with enterprise architecture, security, compliance, governance, and business needs.

Reports to the Enterprise Architect and works with business, engineering, data, security, storage, and architecture teams.

Cloud solution design and delivery

  • Design and build end-to-end Azure and AWS cloud solutions aligned with enterprise architecture, security standards, operations, and Canadian compliance obligations.
  • Translate business and engineering requirements into scalable, secure, reliable, cost-effective architectures.
  • Create and maintain high- and low-level designs, reusable patterns, options papers, decision records, and implementation roadmaps.
  • Direct integration designs for APIs, data pipelines, event-driven architectures, identity, and secure connectivity.

Automation, assurance, and governance

  • Set and apply IaC and CI/CD standards using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure ARM templates, and Bicep.
  • Validate implementation across IaC, pipelines, identity, networks, monitoring, security, integration, and operational readiness.
  • Ensure compliance with security, governance, data residency, audit, and risk requirements for Canadian operations.
  • Promote reusable cloud patterns, reference architectures, and supportable services; advise on roadmaps, options, risks, and trade-offs.
  • Guide performance, reliability, resilience, security, and cost optimization using a FinOps mindset and assess emerging technology capabilities.

Cloud and platform qualifications

  • Expert-level enterprise cloud architecture experience, including landing zones, networking, identity, compute, storage, monitoring, security, governance, and hybrid integration.
  • Hands-on Azure and AWS service knowledge, including VPC/VNet, IAM/Entra ID, compute, storage, monitoring, logging, key management, routing, policy, and account governance.
  • Advanced expertise with Microsoft Copilot Studio, Foundry, APIM, Microsoft Graph, and related workflow and automation services.

Technical qualifications

  • Deep Terraform and AWS CloudFormation expertise; strong working knowledge of Azure ARM templates and Bicep; ability to create modular IaC deployed through CI/CD.
  • Expert cloud security, least-privilege, encryption, logging, monitoring, guardrail, vulnerability-management, data-governance, residency, audit, and Canadian-compliance knowledge.
  • Broad knowledge of hybrid cloud, storage, backup, disaster recovery, observability, networking, firewalls, WAF, SD-WAN, Windows Server, and Unix/Linux.
  • Expert direction for APIs, integrations, event-driven services, and automated workflows; AI/ML familiarity is preferred.

Security and eligibility

  • Must be able to obtain and maintain applicable Canadian government security clearance; additional requirements may apply for technical data, classified areas, or internationally regulated information.
  • Must be eligible to work in Canada.

Compensation

  • Hiring range is CAD 140,000 to CAD 170,000 annually; the role is eligible for a management incentive plan.

Benefits

  • Full-time employee benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible benefits, travel insurance, virtual care, EFAP, fitness facilities, and employee resource groups.
  • Retirement benefits include a defined contribution pension plan, RRSP access, and financial planning support.
  • Other offerings include flexible time off, parental and disability programs, learning and education assistance, mentoring, professional-membership reimbursement, parking, discounts, social clubs, and a scholarship program.

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