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Cloud Platform Services Intern

At Interac, we design and deliver products and solutions that give Canadians control over their money so they can get more out of life. But that’s not all. Whether we’re leading real-time money movement, driving innovative commerce solutions like open payments for transit systems, or making advancements in new areas like verification and open banking, we are playing a key role in shaping the future of the digital economy in Canada.

Want to make a lasting impact amongst a community of creative thinkers, problem solvers, technical gurus and high-performance application developers? We want to hear from you.

Reporting to the Platform Services/DevSecOps Leader, the Cloud Platform Services Intern will work as part of Interac’s platform architecture team to develop and deliver technical solutions on public and private clouds. As part of the architectural team, this intern can expect to collaborate together with highly-technical colleagues to solve problems within the payment space – this is an opportunity to develop knowledge and experience across multiple technology domains (including Enterprise Cloud, DevOps and Agile) and projects that will have an impact on every Canadian.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Supporting the Cloud Engineering team to develop and deliver services on public cloud platforms (Amazon Web Services & Azure)

• Participating in squads focusing on maturing Interac’s cloud practices and tools

• Contributing to the designing solutions for a variety of digital transformation initiatives and managing existing infrastructure across Interac

• Helping evaluate business goals, assessments, develop technical architectures, and support the design deployment

• Contributing to the team responsible for designing and managing cloud-based systems for Interac by bringing new solutions and supporting the conversions of existing systems to the cloud

• Acting as a technical interface for a variety of projects and infrastructure initiatives by communicating and managing senior technology professionals

• Providing additional ad-hoc support with:

  • Driving automation for cloud build

  • Delivering environments into and designing solutions on the public clouds

  • Preparing design documents for cloud deployment

  • Inplementing best practices around security & platform tools

  • Writing IaC (Infrastructure as Code) and develop modules

  • Collaborating directly with Interac’s DevSecOps subject matter experts (SME)

You bring:

• You are currently enrolled in a university or college program in a relevant discipline, like computer science or similar field

• Familiarity with system architecture and automation

• Familiarity with scripting languages and cloud native technologies

• Experience with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and continuous integration, delivery and deployment (CI/CD) tools

• Experience with implementing security in public cloud environments

• You are a proactive critical thinker, with strong analytical and problem skills – you enjoy continuously improving redundant or inefficient processes

• You’re comfortable troubleshooting and enjoy tackling challenging problems – you often utilize your creative thinking skills to come up with solutions

• Comfortable with learning and working effectively either independently or with groups across different functions and levels

• Confidence in your ability to communicate verbally and written in a detailed and impactful way

• Although not required, you have some familiarity or previous experience with the following:

  • Building out cloud solutions

  • Infrastructure automation

  • Ansible and/or Terraform

Workstyle: Hybrid*

Location: Toronto

Term: Sept - December 2024

Duration: Monday - Friday

*Must be eligible to work for Interac Corp. in Canada in a Full Time Capacity

PLEASE NOTE: to be eligible for Interac internship roles, you must be currently enrolled in a Canadian post secondary academic institution.

Interac requires employees to complete a background check that is completed by one of our service providers. We use this service to complete the following checks:

• 5-year employment verification;
• Canadian criminal record check;
• Education verification;
• Canadian ID cross-check;
• Public safety verification; and
• Credit inquiry