Senior DevOps Engineer

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.