Tech Talent International (SI) supplies technical talent to a variety of clients ranging from Fortune 100/500/1000 companies to small and mid-sized organizations in Canada/US and Europe.
We currently have acontract role as a Senior DevOps Engineerwith our large consulting client on a long term project with a major financial services client in the downtown Montreal area.
Role: Senior DevOps Engineer
Type: Fulltime, Perm
Location: Downtown Montreal, QC - Hybrid (roles starts off 5 days in office for 1st 3 months, then turns into hybrid setup 3 days onsite, 2 days from home)
Salary: $100,000 - $110,000 + bonus + 3 weeks paid vacation + RRSP contribution + benefits + sick/personal days
Position Overview
Responsibilities
- Deliver day-to-day technology and operations services supporting client's investment and corporate banking units in Canada.
- Contribute to agile transformation by promoting technology and data culture, accelerating decision-making, and supporting an industrialized delivery model.
- Architect, implement, and operate scalable CI/CD pipelines and release workflows.
- Define, enforce, document, maintain, and continuously improve standards for build automation, testing, security scanning, and deployments.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to CI/CD processes, tools, and automation.
- Integrate DevSecOps tools to automate security checks and vulnerability assessments within CI/CD pipelines.
- Proactively remediate vulnerabilities and implement security fixes in compliance with regulatory and internal requirements.
- Partner with security teams to support audits, controls, and evidence collection.
- Manage certificate renewals, coordinate secrets rotation, and oversee virtual server migrations securely and on schedule.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure supporting automated unit testing, component testing, and system-level verification.
- Ensure testing is fully integrated into CI/CD pipelines to support reliable, high-quality releases.
- Perform command-line troubleshooting and administration across Linux and Windows environments.
- Collaborate with infrastructure teams to resolve operating system, network, and runtime issues impacting production systems.
- Work closely with development, security, operations, and product teams to embed automation and security across the application lifecycle.
- Provide training, guidance, and best practices on CI/CD, DevSecOps, and automation capabilities.
Profile
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Ansible, and Terraform.
- 5+ years of experience working with Linux and Windows operating systems.
- 3+ years of experience working with databases (MSSQL / PostgreSQL).
- 6+ years of experience with Python and Java.
- 3+ years of experience working with Azure public cloud.
- 2+ years of experience working with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Solid understanding of core services including compute, networking, storage, and security.
- Strong ability to troubleshoot complex issues and make quick, informed decisions.
- Willingness and ability to learn new technologies in a fast-evolving environment.
- Strong automation mindset with a focus on improving efficiency through automation.
- Intellectual curiosity with interest in banking, technology, problem-solving, and strategic challenges.
- Results-oriented, pragmatic approach to work.
- Ability to clearly present analyses, including through visualization tools, to support decision-making.
- Strong listening and collaboration skills.
- Commitment to staying current with DevOps industry trends and best practices.
- English fluency (required).
- French proficiency (nice-to-have).
Nice to have
- Experience with Solr and Zookeeper.
- Familiarity with Agile ways of working and tools such as IE and JIRA.
- Experience with Autosys or Airflow.
- Knowledge of data governance and information security protocols.
- Understanding of APIs, firewall rules, and network protocols.