Director of Engineering Azure Platforms
Core
Leading cloud modernization, platform consolidation, and operational excellence for Azure services to support Manulife's financial solutions.
Role type
Director of Engineering Azure Platforms
Builds
Consolidated, modernized, and secure Azure cloud environments for enterprise financial services.
Domain
Financial Services / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Azure platform services (AKS, Event Hub, APIM, Entra ID, SQL, Key Vault, Networking), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible), DevOps (CI/CD, GitOps), large-scale workload migration, certificate lifecycle management, people leadership, capacity management, reliability engineering.
Preferred skills
Strategic vendor relationship management, executive communication, team mentoring.
Technologies
Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Helm
Responsibilities
Lead large-scale Azure modernization and cloud transformation initiatives; Direct migration of legacy applications to cloud-native solutions; Oversee maintenance and improvement of Azure services (AKS, APIM, Event Hub); Lead enterprise certificate lifecycle management; Ensure operational stability through monitoring and incident management; Partner with Architecture, Cybersecurity, and Compliance teams; Drive IaC and automation practices; Provide leadership across multi-team engineering programs.
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership & hands-on technical direction
