Associate Engineer II
Top Benefits
About the role
Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hours 37.5
Line Of Business Technology Solutions
Pay Details $65,600 - $98,400 CAD
TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.
As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.
Job Description 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)
Who We Are TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we deliver legendary customer experiences to over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to the Bank, those we serve, and the economies we support. We are guided by our vision to Be the Better Bank and our purpose to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues.
TD is deeply committed to being a leader in customer experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are customer facing. As we build our business and deliver on our strategy, we are innovating to enhance the customer experience and build capabilities to shape the future of banking. Whether you’ve got years of banking experience or are just starting your career in financial services, we can help you realize your potential. Through regular leadership and development conversations to mentorship and training programs, we’re here to support you towards your goals. As an organization, we keep growing – and so will you.
Our Total Rewards Package Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs. Learn more
Additional Information We’re delighted that you’re considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we’re committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.
Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.
Colleague Development If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.
Training & Onboarding We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.
Interview Process We’ll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.
Accommodation Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you’d like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Language Requirement (Quebec Only) Sans Objet
About TD Securities
As a leading corporate and investment bank, TD Securities offers a wide range of integrated capital markets products and services. Our corporate, government, and institutional clients choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience.
With more than 6,500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe, we help clients meet their needs today and prepare for tomorrow. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions. In 2023, we acquired Cowen Inc., offering our clients access to a premier U.S. equities business and highly-diverse equity research franchise, while growing our strong, diversified investment bank.
We are growth-oriented, people-focused, and community-minded. As an integrated team, we work to deliver value for our clients every day.
For relevant legal disclaimers, visit tdsecurities.com/ca/en/legal.
Associate Engineer II
Top Benefits
About the role
Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hours 37.5
Line Of Business Technology Solutions
Pay Details $65,600 - $98,400 CAD
TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.
As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.
Job Description 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)
Who We Are TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we deliver legendary customer experiences to over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to the Bank, those we serve, and the economies we support. We are guided by our vision to Be the Better Bank and our purpose to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues.
TD is deeply committed to being a leader in customer experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are customer facing. As we build our business and deliver on our strategy, we are innovating to enhance the customer experience and build capabilities to shape the future of banking. Whether you’ve got years of banking experience or are just starting your career in financial services, we can help you realize your potential. Through regular leadership and development conversations to mentorship and training programs, we’re here to support you towards your goals. As an organization, we keep growing – and so will you.
Our Total Rewards Package Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs. Learn more
Additional Information We’re delighted that you’re considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we’re committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.
Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.
Colleague Development If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.
Training & Onboarding We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.
Interview Process We’ll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.
Accommodation Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you’d like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Language Requirement (Quebec Only) Sans Objet
About TD Securities
As a leading corporate and investment bank, TD Securities offers a wide range of integrated capital markets products and services. Our corporate, government, and institutional clients choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience.
With more than 6,500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe, we help clients meet their needs today and prepare for tomorrow. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions. In 2023, we acquired Cowen Inc., offering our clients access to a premier U.S. equities business and highly-diverse equity research franchise, while growing our strong, diversified investment bank.
We are growth-oriented, people-focused, and community-minded. As an integrated team, we work to deliver value for our clients every day.
For relevant legal disclaimers, visit tdsecurities.com/ca/en/legal.