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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.

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Job Description:

We are looking for a Kubernetes 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 a 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.
• Document security configurations, procedures and guidelines for containerized environments, ensuring compliance with organizational standards and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and maintain security tools, scripts, and automation workflows to enhance container security operations and incident response capabilities.
• Utilize IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) tools such as Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning, ensure consistent configuration and prevent drift.
• 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.
• Participate in incident response activities, security incident investigations and post-mortem analysis to improve incident handling processes.
• 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
• Develop and Test Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Plans (BCP)

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• 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.
• Strong understanding of DevOps/Platform Engineering principals.
• Strong programming/scripting skills in languages such as Python, Go, bash/shell, Java, NodeJS.
• Familiarity with Cloud CLIs and SDKs.
• Familiarity writing/consuming REST APIs.
• Strong understanding of Network security principles, encryption protocols and identity management concepts.
• Strong 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, Grafana, 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.
• Understanding of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), managing public key and private key certificates in Cloud environment for Paas services and applications
• 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 individual 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 strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for 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 foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

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.

If you’re passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.  

We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.

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!

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