Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer (Full Stack)

About the job

The Wissen team continues to expand its footprint in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, and India. More openings to come as we continue to grow the team!

Please read below for a brilliant career opportunity.

Role: Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer (Full Stack)

Title: AVP/VP

Location: Montreal (Day 1 Onsite/Hybrid) ONLY LOCAL CANDIDATES

Mode of Work: 3 days/week onsite required

Work type - Fulltime

Experience: 6+ years

About the Team

Our platform provides a critical function enabling securities settlement processing across multiple markets worldwide. On peak volume days, the platform processes millions of trades and supports settlement activities worth hundreds of billions of dollars across multiple countries and currencies.

The team operates across multiple global locations and is organized into agile squads closely aligned with product owners, users, and key stakeholders. This structure enables direct visibility into the business impact of the solutions developed, deployed, and supported. The team is committed to leveraging modern technologies, best practices, and continuous innovation to deliver scalable and efficient solutions for business users.

Role

We are looking for a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer with strong software development fundamentals to join a team building a resilient, scalable, and secure cloud-based settlement platform.

You will own the infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and developer experience for our applications while also contributing hands-on to application code and automation tooling. You will participate in requirements refinement sessions and contribute to architecture, design, and implementation by writing infrastructure code, building and hardening CI/CD pipelines, and helping the team adopt emerging practices such as AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows.

In this agile environment, you will work directly with users, product owners, business analysts, and technology teams to design, build, and support innovative solutions. If you have a proven track record of automating and scaling large distributed platforms, particularly in cloud environments, we'd like to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in refinement sessions to ensure requirements are clearly defined.
• Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) for provisioning and managing cloud environments in a secure, repeatable, and auditable manner.
• Build, maintain, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and reusable workflows, including automated testing, security scanning, and progressive deployment strategies.
• Write clean, performant, scalable, testable, and reusable application and automation code, along with automated tests.
• Contribute to enhancing engineering standards and development processes.
• Improve security posture and drive process improvements across the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate effectively with globally distributed engineering teams and stakeholders.

Essential Skills

• Strong working knowledge of Terraform (or similar IaC tooling) for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Strong experience with GitHub Actions and workflows (or comparable CI/CD platforms), including pipeline design, reusable workflows, secrets management, and release automation.
• Fast learner with a strong desire to continuously improve and explore emerging technologies, including AI and agentic engineering tools.
• Solid software development background with Core Java, Spring Boot/Spring Framework (or a similar backend technology stack), sufficient to contribute to application development and SDLC automation.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Preferred Skills

• Hands-on experience with agentic workloads, AI coding assistants, or LLM-based automation (e.g., building and operating AI agents, prompt/workflow design, MCP-style tool integrations).
• Experience building and operating distributed, event-driven systems using Agile methodologies.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, system resiliency, scalability, security, and observability.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud.
• Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and GitOps-based deployment models.
• Experience with Angular or other modern front-end frameworks.
• Experience designing and implementing high-volume messaging and REST-based middleware solutions.
• Experience defining scalable database models (relational and non-relational).
• Prior experience in FinTech or Financial Services application development.
• Experience working within global delivery teams.

Benefits:

• Healthcare insurance for you and your family (medical, dental, vision).
• Short / Long term disability insurance.
• Life Insurance.
• Accidental death & disability Insurance.
• 3 weeks of Paid Time Off.
• Support and fee coverage for immigration needs.
• Remote office set up stipend.
• Support for industry certifications.
• Additional cash incentives.
• Re-skilling opportunities to transition between technologies.

Schedule: Monday to Friday

Work Mode: Hybrid

Job Type: Full-time

We are: A high end technical consulting firm built and run by highly qualified technologists. Our workforce consists of 5000+ highly skilled professionals, with leadership from Wharton, MIT, IITs, IIMs, and NITs and decades of experience at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, MSCI, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Verizon, British Telecom, ISRO etc. Without any external funding or investments, Wissen Technology has grown its revenues by 100% every other year since it started as a subsidiary of Wissen Group in 2015. We have a global presence with offices in the US, India, UK, Australia, Mexico, and Canada.

You are: A true tech or domain ninja. Or both. Comfortable working in a quickly growing profitable startup, have a “can do” attitude and are willing to take on any task thrown your way.

You will:

• Develop and promote the company’s culture of engineering excellence.
• Define, develop and deliver solutions at a top tier investment bank or another esteemed client.
• Perform other duties as needed

Your Education and Experience:

• We value candidates who can execute on our vision and help us build an industry-leading organization.
• Graduate-level degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field
• Wissen embraces diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, skills, and abilities. We believe that the more inclusive our team is, the better our work will be. All qualified applicants, including but not limited to LGBTQ+, Minorities, Females, the Disabled, and Veterans, are encouraged to apply.

About Wissen Technology:

The Wissen Group was founded in the year 2000. Wissen Technology, a part of Wissen Group, was established in the year 2015. Wissen Technology is a specialized technology company that delivers high-end consulting for diverse industries, including Banking, E-commerce, Telecom, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Energy. We help clients build world-class products. We have offices in the US, India (Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Gurugram, Mumbai, Pune), UK, Australia, Mexico, Vietnam, and Canada.

We empower businesses with a dynamic portfolio of services and accelerators tailored to today’s digital demands and based on future ready technology stack. Our services include Industry Leading Custom Software Development, AI-Driven Software Engineering, Generative AI & Machine Learning, Real-Time Data Analytics & Insights, Interactive Data Visualization & Decision Intelligence, Intelligent Process Automation, Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Cloud Strategies, Cross-Platform Mobile Experiences, CI/CD-Powered Agile DevOps, Automated Quality Engineering, and cutting-edge integrations.

Certified as a Great Place to Work® for five consecutive years (2020-2025) and recognized as a Top 20 AI/ML vendor by CIO Insider, Wissen Group has delivered multimillion-dollar projects for over 20 Fortune 500 companies. Wissen Technology delivers exceptional value on mission-critical projects through thought leadership, ownership, and reliable, high-quality, on-time delivery.

Our industry-leading technical expertise stem from the talented professionals we attract. Committed to fostering their growth and providing top-tier career opportunities, Wissen ensures an outstanding experience and value for our clients and employees.

We Value:

• Perfection: Pursuit of excellence through continuous improvement.
• Curiosity: Fostering continuous learning and exploration.
• Respect: Valuing diversity and mutual respect.
• Integrity: Commitment to ethical conduct and transparency.
• Transparency: Open communication and trust.

Website: www.wissen.com

Glassdoor Reviews: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Wissen-Reviews-E2587444.htm

Wissen Thought leadership: https://www.wissen.com/articles/

Latest in Wissen in CIO Insider:

https://www.cioinsiderindia.com/vendor/wissen-technology-setting-new-benchmarks-in-technology-consulting-cid-1064.html

Employee Speak:

https://www.ambitionbox.com/overview/wissen-technology-overview

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wissen-technology

About Wissen Interview Process:

https://www.wissen.com/blog/we-work-on-highly-complex-technology-projects-here-is-how-it-changes-whom-we-hire/

Wissen: A Great Place to Work

https://www.wissen.com/blog/wissen-is-a-great-place-to-work-says-the-great-place-to-work-r-institute-india

https://www.wissen.com/blog/here-is-what-ownership-and-commitment-mean-to-wissenites/

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