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Job Title: AWS Lead
Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite)
Employment Type: Contract
Pay Rate: CAD$55 - $60/HR INC
Job Description
We are seeking a seasoned AWS Lead with strong banking/financial services experience to manage and support business-critical cloud applications. The ideal candidate will have hands-on AWS expertise, excellent communication skills, and proven experience working in a global onshore-offshore delivery model.
Key Responsibilities
AWS & Cloud Expertise
Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite)
Employment Type: Contract
Pay Rate: CAD$55 - $60/HR INC
Job Description
We are seeking a seasoned AWS Lead with strong banking/financial services experience to manage and support business-critical cloud applications. The ideal candidate will have hands-on AWS expertise, excellent communication skills, and proven experience working in a global onshore-offshore delivery model.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage AWS-based production environments supporting banking applications.
- Act as the primary point of contact for business application owners and stakeholders.
- Coordinate with onshore/offshore teams to ensure 24x7 support coverage.
- Drive incident, problem, and change management processes in alignment with ITSM frameworks.
- Handle L2/L3 production support, ensuring timely resolution of tickets and service requests.
- Collaborate with third-party vendors for issue resolution and service delivery.
- Monitor system performance, availability, and reliability of AWS-hosted applications.
- Ensure adherence to SLA, KPI, and compliance requirements (especially in banking domain).
- Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive measures.
- Support BAU activities including deployments, patching, and environment maintenance.
AWS & Cloud Expertise
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services such as:
- EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda
- VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail
- Experience in monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing AWS environments.
- Solid experience in production support (L2/L3)
- Hands-on experience with ITSM tools (ServiceNow, Remedy, etc.)
- Strong understanding of:
- Incident Management
- Problem Management
- Change Management
- Prior experience working in banking or financial services environments.
- Understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements is a plus.
- Experience working in onshore-offshore delivery models.
- Ability to lead offshore teams and manage deliverables.
- Strong coordination with:
- Business stakeholders
- Application owners
- Third-party vendors
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure production environment.
- Ownership mindset with strong accountability and leadership qualities.
- AWS Certification (Associate or Professional).
- Exposure to DevOps tools / CI-CD pipelines.
- Experience with automation and scripting (Python, Shell).
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- Posted
- Apr 16, 2026
- Type
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- Level
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- Location
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