Cloud Engineer Co-op/Intern
Multiple Teams
Updated on 9/22/2025

Definity Financial
No salary listed
Kitchener, ON, Canada
In Person
YOUR NEXT CO-OP PLACEMENT
Work term: Winter 2026
Work term length: 4 months
From classroom to co-op to career, every step of your journey has an impact on your future. That’s why it makes sense to choose a co-op placement with a company that offers truly rewarding work and real-life experience. At Definity®, your contributions, creativity, and energy will be put to good use, and you’ll get to be involved with initiatives that support our strategic goals and use your skills in a supportive team environment.
If you’re looking for a company that takes care of its people — full time, part time, and co-ops alike — and has a track record of doing big things, get ready to love it here.
What you’ll be doing
- Implementation of the desired architecture (cloud, on premise, and hybrid), products, and vendors to be used for programs across the enterprise and ensure they satisfy our business and technology needs
- Implementation of cloud-focused principles and standards to guarantee a scalable, flexible, resilient, and secure environment for Economical/Definity
- Work with Engineers/Developers from other teams to recommend and implement appropriate DevOps solutions
- Continuously assist with identifying & implementing improvement
- Assist teams with actively identifying & resolving technical issues & blockers
- Communicate status of assigned work & provide timely escalation of issues to ensure objectives are met
What you bring
- Experience with application architectures, middleware, and technology platform architectures (cloud, on-premises, and hybrid)
- Operations – Having built on the cloud, you also build and design for stability
- Experience deploying full-stack solutions and building development capabilities on cloud platforms (AWS and GCP)
- Familiar with technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git, Python, Bash
- Currently enrolled in a university or College Program
- Professional level cloud certification is a bonus
Did you know?
- We care about our co-ops: Definity’s co-op students are considered the best pipeline of talent for our full-time, permanent positions.
- We care about students: Definity distributes $85,000 in scholarships to students across Canada each year.
- We care about our community: Definity donates more than $1 million every year to causes that drive true change in the neighborhoods in which we live and work.
What can Definity offer you?
- Meaningful work forwarding our purpose of building a better world by helping our clients and communities adapt and thrive in their hardest times of need.
- Culture of accountability, empowerment, and collaboration.
- Opportunities to support personal and professional growth through real-life experience and unique learning opportunities.
- Opportunity to join our employee groups - focused on women's empowerment, LGBTQ+, anti-racism and cultural equity, and environmental activism
- Determined to create positive change for our environment, our people, and our communities, now and in the future. Check our ESG work!

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