Cloud Platform Engineer

We are looking for a highly motivated Software Engineer to join Manulife’s Cloud & Platform Service Global DevSecOps team. The role will support the global strategy and vision by implementing and maintaining engineering platforms and practice solutions that enable the company to think and deliver firm wide. You will work closely with technology teams and partners to translate long-term objectives into practical engineering solutions that fuel firm-wide reuse and convergence with just the right levels of creativity.

Position Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product and Technology teams to implement tooling and practices that enables business and technology vision.
• Build and test automation tooling for infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Design, build, and deploy automation tooling and capabilities to enable application development teams deliver across a diverse global portfolio.
• Design, build, and deploy best practices to application development teams to ensure reliable and secure is delivered to customers.
• Using GenAI, produce new and creative ways of documentation and the distribution of information.
• Research emerging technologies to ensure teams have access to the latest toolsets to deliver faster, better, and easier to customers.
• Participate in engineering forums and contribute to technology strategy.
• Working with a diverse global community of software engineers to understand their needs to better serve customers.
• Review, advise, and provide feedback on engineering solutions produced within and outside the team.
• Develop and maintain reference implementation patterns.
• Contribute to the definition of standards, guidance, and points-of-view that enable engineers to thrive and cross-enterprise thinking to become the norm.
• Help develop new and revise existing governance processes to ensure alignment of a diverse set of technology projects with the enterprise target state vision.
• Connect business and technical insights to develop innovative proposals for evolving Manulife’s platforms, introducing new products or capabilities, or improving processes that benefit the firm or its customers.

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to work with leads and peers, engineering solutions to help influence strategic direction and vision for the future.
• Ability to analyze the information flow and recommend appropriate technology to support the business process.
• Desire and ability to learn diverse business domains and develop engineering solutions that meet the current and anticipated business needs across a broad set of partners.
• Ability to evaluate new technologies and stay current on industry trends.
• Good judgment and the ability to handle high-pressure situations.
• Experience with Cloud Native (12-Factor) Architecture and Infrastructure Patterns.
• Some experience in software engineering.
• Some knowledge of HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript (Web frameworks, Angular, React) with reactive and progressive design principles.
• Some knowledge of backend application technology and languages (Java, C#, Go, NodeJS, etc.).
• Some knowledge of modern infrastructure and application environments (Kubernetes, Azure, AWS).
• Ability to work in an Agile environment.
• Familiarity with managing SCM platforms like GitHub or BitBucket.
• Familiarity with pipeline/workflow tooling like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, TravisCI, Team City, Octopus, etc.

When you join our team:

• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

• As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

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 https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact [email protected].

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