Lead - DevOps Engineer
At a glance
Highlights
- Hybrid role with three days onsite in Toronto
- 5‑month contract with potential extension
- Lead design of enterprise‑scale CI/CD pipelines
Heads up
- 5-month contract
- Hybrid schedule requires three days onsite per week
Why this role might suit you
A seasoned DevOps professional with deep Azure DevOps and mainframe experience can lead the Helios CI/CD pipeline, shape enterprise‑wide automation, and mentor a developer community while working in a hybrid Toronto setting.
Skills
About the role
Are you passionate about driving innovation in application development and streamlining the software delivery lifecycle? As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in bridging the gap between development and operations, ensuring that our applications are built, tested, and deployed with speed, reliability, and compliance to the Enterprise security standards. You will lead efforts to enhance developer productivity, optimize build pipelines, and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement across the application development lifecycle.
This is a 5-month contract, hybrid position with the potential for extension. The successful candidate is expected to work from our Toronto office three days per week.
What will you do?
Lead the design and development of key features for the Helios CI/CD pipeline – VM and Mainframe platforms
Consult with partner systems to develop integration strategies revolving around DevOps best practices
Consult with Enterprise Architecture and Governance teams to review solution designs to ensure best practices are adhered to
Enable AI Capabilities to increase Developer Productivity
Work with product owners and key stakeholders to develop high-value features that benefit the RBC Developer community
Maintain the CI/CD pipeline: security and vulnerability management, capacity management, deployment and scaling strategies, performance and uptime, infrastructure hygiene
Provide estimates on feature delivery, identify and determine delivery risks on key initiatives, and contribute to quarterly product road map planning
Review contributions from the Developer community and approve PRs
What do you need to Succeed?
Must-Have
7 years of strong experience with Azure DevOps practices and cloud infrastructure
Deep understanding of DevOps Principles and best practices for CI/CD, including designing at an Enterprise scale
Understand configuration as code, RBAC, and working within the Mainframe environment from modern deployment platforms
Experience with DevOps tools, platforms, and interfaces: Jenkins, UCD, Github, Github Actions, JFrog Artifactory, Hashicorp Vault, Ansible, Octopus Deploy
Proficient with Java, Python, Typescript, Groovy, YAML, NPM
Experience with deploying to cloud platforms: OCP, Azure, AWS
Highly proficient with IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz)
Experience with Mainframe utilities and platforms: ISPF, TSO, Mainframe Filesystems, JES, Endeavor
Nice-to-Have
Experience with QE Automation Tools
Development Experience with IMS, Zeke, DB2, CICs, WebSphere.
Development and support of applications hosted on Cloud platforms
Experience with Networking concepts
Experience with SecOps
We offer a competitive hourly rate, a casual workspace, and great people to collaborate with. If this job sounds perfect for you, please apply.
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