DevOps – Application Release Engineer
- Old Toronto
- |7 years of exp
- |Contract
In office - WFH flexibility
Not Available
About the job
Work Style: Hybrid – Currently 2 days a week but in next quarter it will be 4 days a week
Location: Downtown Toronto
Anticipated Start Date: 2-3 weeks from offer
Pay rate: $70 - $80 per hour
End Client: TD Bank
Contract: 1 year term
Job Summary:
Gudian of the production environment
Provides integrated guidance across business, product and technology organizations to provide best practices for releasing software — from how the software is stored in the source code repository, to build rules for compilation, to how testing, packaging, and deployment are conducted. DevOps will be responsible as the guardian of the production environment, while balancing automation and speed.
- Job Description:CI/CD Pipeline management – building and maintain pipeline that automatically test and deploy code from development, optimized for heavy engine builds
- Infrastructure as Code – write scripts to automate server set up
- Monitoring and logging – setting up alters to monitor the stability of the environments
- Security integration – ensure security checks are built into the code deployment processes, implement automated security gates so no code reaches production without passing vulnerability scans
- Hybrid Infrastructure - managing a mix of cloud instances and bare-metal servers; cloud instances across platforms like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
- Audit trail automation – ensure every change to the infrastructure is logged and traceable. Build systems that can prove to a regulator exactly who changed what, and when
- Network Orchestration – configure software-defined networking to ensure the engine's wire protocols have prioritized bandwidth and low jiter
- Resiliency and chaos engineering – designing multi-region, multi-cloud disaster recovery strategies to ensure 99.9999% availability
Required Qualifications & Experience:
- Key Skills & Competencies:University or post-graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering
- 7+ years in infrastructure/ DevOps, with at least 3 years in a highly regulated industry
- AWS certified DevOps engineer
Certified Cloud Security Professional or Certified DevSecOps Professional
Key Skills & Competencies:Containerization – Docker, Kubernetes
CI/CD tool – Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub
IaC & configuration – Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Pulumi
Cloud providers – Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure
Version Control -GitHub and Bitbucket
Scripting – Python, Bash, Go or Ruby
Databases – PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Oracle
Experience with Mainframe integration or legacy middleware
Strong problem-solving skills – ability to navigate high pressure asks with transparency and clear communication on progress/ next steps
Highly adaptable – working in a GSIB, managing high volume of asks with shifting priorities
Nice to Have:Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Financial domain expertise – familiarity with ISO 20022, SWIFT, Fed and Lynx
Experience using tools like CloudHealth or KubeCost to manage and optimize cloud spend
Knowledge of eBPF for observability or DPDK for high-speed packet processing
Experience with FPGAs or GPU-based computing clusters used for high-frequency data processing
Understanding how to minimize latency spikes in a distributed wire engine environment
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