Lead DevOps Engineer

Description

The company is hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer to lead cloud infrastructure, automation and platform engineering work across the enterprise.

This is a hands-on leadership role centred on designing and improving AWS-based solutions, strengthening CI/CD practices, adopting Infrastructure as Code, and making software delivery secure, scalable and resilient.

You will work closely with engineering, security and operations teams, mentor DevOps practitioners and help build a cloud-first, automation-driven way of working.

Application deadline: 11/26/2026. Office address: 250 Yonge Street. Job family group: Technology.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of enterprise DevOps platforms, toolchains and engineering standards.
• Architect, deploy and support scalable AWS cloud solutions.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and automation frameworks.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code, automate deployments and raise operational efficiency.
• Design and manage containerized environments with Docker and AWS container services.
• Support application modernization, cloud migration and the move to microservices.
• Set up monitoring, logging, alerting and observability.
• Lead work on reliability, performance, security, incident response and continuous improvement.
• Give technical leadership, mentorship and guidance to engineering teams.

Requirements

• Have 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Have 3+ years in a technical or lead engineering role.
• Have designed and supported large-scale AWS environments.
• Have proven experience building enterprise CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks.
• Have worked in Agile software development environments.
• Cloud and AWS: AWS architecture, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, RDS, CloudFront, CloudWatch and serverless computing.
• DevOps and platform engineering: DevOps toolchains, CI/CD, platform engineering and platform architecture.
• Containerization: Docker, Linux containers and AWS containerization.
• Automation: infrastructure automation, automation testing tools and Infrastructure as Code.
• Development and SDLC: Software Development Lifecycle, development methodologies and Agile practices.
• Programming and scripting: Python, Bash, PowerShell and other scripting or programming languages.
• Source control and build tools: Git, SCM tools and Jenkins.
• Architecture and design: systems architecture, systems thinking and cloud-native design.
• Observability and operations: monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance and reliability engineering.
• Preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.
• Preferred: experience with Kubernetes, Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Preferred: experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
• Preferred: knowledge of DevSecOps, cloud security and governance frameworks.
• Preferred: Backstage (Internal Developer Platform), LaunchDarkly, Splunk, Node.js, TypeScript, Spring Framework and SAML / OAuth.
• Soft skills: strong leadership and mentoring, sharp problem-solving and analytical skills, clear communication and stakeholder management, creativity, a continuous learning mindset with an Agile orientation, and the ability to influence technical direction and drive organizational change.

Conditions

Full-time, salaried role.

Pay range: $85,500.00 to $185,000.00. This is the company Financial Group's range for this position and pay type.

Actual pay depends on location, skills, experience, education and qualifications, and may include a commission structure. Part-time pay is pro-rated by regular hours. For commission roles, the figure shown is the expected first-year target.

Total compensation may vary by pay type and can include performance incentives, discretionary bonuses and other perks.

Equal opportunity: the company is committed to an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace, and accommodations are available on request through your recruiter.

Benefits

• Health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans.
• Training, coaching, manager support and networking opportunities.
• Full benefits details are available on the company's total rewards page.