Cloud Engineer - 12-month contract

At Gore Mutual, we’ve always set ourselves apart as a modern mutual that does good. Now, we’re proudly building on that legacy to transform our company—and our industry—for the better.

Effective January 1, 2026, Gore has joined Beneva—the country’s largest mutual insurance company—as part of its Property & Casualty operations in Ontario and Western Canada. During 2026, Gore will combine its operations with Unica Insurance, Beneva’s Ontario-based subsidiary specializing in niche commercial and personal insurance, creating a stronger, more diversified mutual insurer with greater scale and long-term stability.

Every decision and investment remains anchored in long-term benefits to customers, members, and communities. Come join us.

​​ Cloud Engineer is a key role as this will automate, evolve, and establish a scalable cloud platform across the company optimizing for self-service and governance. The role will work with both Cloud Native platforms Azure and AWS, leverage tools like Kubernetes (AKS), and Cloud Hosting providers offerings like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS ensuring consistent experience and high standards are established.

What will you do?

​​ Maintain Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure ​ 

• ​​ Utilize best practices to ensure backup and recovery techniques for applications on Azure platform .  


• ​ Supporting and maintaining Azure cloud infrastructure  


• ​ Implementing deploying workloads on Azure virtual machines  


• ​ Container technologies i.e. Kubernetes & AKS  


• ​ Utilize Terraform code to deploy multiple resource groups, VMs, and VNETs  


• ​ Upgrading version and certificates  


• ​ Load Balancers, AzurePolicies, AzureKayVault and Tagging  


• ​ Expertise in Microsoft Azure Cloud   services (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS) 


• ​ Monitoring Azure infrastructure and logs  

​​ Maintain Azure cloud AKS ​  

• ​​A dministration of AKS clusters  


• ​ Configuring web apps, Azure App services, Azure DNS, Azure traffic manager, App services and Azure Application gateway,  


• ​ Managing the Azure Kubernetes Services policies, providing access to different Azure resources ​ managing secrets, firewalls, PODS, containers.  


• ​ Injecting data in applications  


• ​ Troubleshooting cluster related issues


• ​ Cluster AutoScaler and load balancers for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Terraform and worked with scheduling deploying, and managing pods and replicas in AKS


• Working knowledge in deploying CI/CD system using Azure DevOps and Kubernetes container environment ​ 

Azure Automation

• ​​ Good knowledge of building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps  


• ​ Creating Ansible play books, Dockers and Jenkins  


• ​ Working knowledge on json, yaml, Terraform and Helm chart ​ 

After-Hours Support  

• Participate on an on-call rotation and be available for out of office hours support when needed  

What will you need to succeed? 

• Undergraduate degree in Information Technology with MS or AWS Cloud Certification desirable


• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in Azure AKS


• Minimum 3 years of good knowledge in building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps


• Minimum 4 years Azure Cloud Platform


• Minimum 2 years Azure DevOps experience


• Proficient in Administrating Azure laaS/PaaS, Azure Virtual Machines, VNET, Network services, Azure DevOps,


• Hands on experience on SQL Databases, Storages, AzureActive Directory, Monitoring, Autoscaling,


• Hands on experience in Azure Blueprint, Azure Site Recovery and Azure backup


• PowerSheII Automation, Azure Search, DNS,VPU extensive


• 4+ years’ working experience of Azure SQL and Cloud platform


• Strong understanding of Terraform


• Hands on experience on Load Balancers, AzurePolicies, AzureKayVault and Tagging


• Expertise in Microsoft Azure Cloud services (SAAS, PASS and IAAS)


• Monitoring Azure infrastructure and logs


• Strong knowledge of Azure Networking, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Active Directory


• Experience with Load Balancers, AzurePolicies, AzureKayVault and Tagging


• Experience with Cloud and other traditional monitoring technologies, as well as hands on experience instrumenting alerts based on aggregated logs and analytics output.

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The expected base salary range for this position is $64,500 - $114,500. Depending on your relevant experience, skills, qualifications, market conditions and business needs, base compensation may vary. Please note: This range reflects the expected base salary for this role but may not represent the full compensation range for all experience and skill levels. During the recruitment process, we will discuss and consider how your unique qualifications align with the broader range for this position.

This posting pertains to an existing vacancy that is actively being filled.

Accessibility for applicants

Gore Mutual Insurance Company is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities during all phases of the recruiting process, including the application process.

If you require accommodation because of a disability, we will work with you to meet your needs.  Contact us and a human resources representative will consult with you to determine an appropriate accommodation.

Should you request an accommodation during the interview process, please notify your Talent Acquisition Consultant.