Misuzu — Junior SRE at Vancity (Vancouver)
Career changer from ~3 years as a midwife in Japan who completed BCIT CST, earned PR, and joined Vancity as a junior SRE after a multi-month, high-volume search.
ジュニアSRE · Vancouver · Vancity
Profile
Misuzu is a junior SRE at Vancity in Vancouver. Age band: 20s (attributes). Career changer from midwifery into computing.
Current role
Junior SRE at Vancity (finance). Entered a role originally posted toward senior level as a new grad/junior. Early months: learning systems/Azure; limited technical grilling in hiring; culture noted as senior-heavy with room for a fresh perspective.
Japan experience
Career changer (未経験) for SRE/engineering. Nursing major (~4 years) plus midwifery school; ~3 years as a midwife. Left partly due to night-shift difficulty and used working holiday as an exit narrative. Not licensed to practice midwifery in Canada without heavy re-training/English bar.
Path to Canada / North America
College route after WH. Chose Vancouver (vs Australia/UK lottery concerns). Met partner, obtained PR, then BCIT CST (~2 years; enrolled September 2023). Graduated December 2025. Co-op (~8 months available; worked ~4 months coding lightly in Python plus admin). Selected cloud option in year 2; earned AWS certification (Azure experience not claimed). Job search ~mid-January to mid-July (~100 apps/month; ~700–800 total), including some Japan outreach. Attributes: ~24 months to offer.
Outcome
Hired as junior SRE at Vancity after ~6 months post-grad search; positioned cloud/AWS readiness and motivation without fabricating experience.
Based on Frog’s Japanese-language interview. English summary for scanning. Original interview (Japanese)