DevOps – Application Release Engineer

Brainhunter Systems Ltd; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Brainhunter Systems Ltd in Downtown Toronto seeks a DevOps professional to guardian the production environment, balancing automation and speed. You will oversee CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and security checks across cloud and on‑premises, ensuring reliable releases.

The role targets a 1‑year contract with a start in 2–3 weeks and a hybrid work style (2 days now, rising to 4). You will collaborate with TD Bank's tech teams to sustain stable, auditable environments and

Qualifications

• University or post-graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering
• 7+ years in infrastructure/ DevOps, with at least 3 years in a highly regulated industry
• Certified Cloud Security Professional or Certified DevSecOps Professional
• Version Control - GitHub and Bitbucket
• Scripting – Python, Bash, Go or Ruby
• Experience with Mainframe integration or legacy middleware
• Nice to Have: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
• Financial domain expertise – ISO 20022, SWIFT, Fed and Lynx
• Experience with CloudHealth or KubeCost for cloud spend optimization
• Observability: eBPF or DPDK for high-speed data processing

Responsibilities

• CI/CD Pipeline management – build and maintain pipelines for automated testing and deployment
• Infrastructure as Code – write scripts to automate server setup
• Monitoring and logging – set up alerts for environment stability
• Security integration – implement automated security gates in deployment processes
• Hybrid Infrastructure – manage cloud and bare-metal across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
• Audit trail automation – log changes and prove who changed what and when
• Network orchestration – configure software-defined networking for performance
• Resiliency and chaos engineering – multi-region, multi-cloud disaster recovery planning

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Problem solving

Communication

Adaptability

Education

University or post-graduate degree in CS/Software Engineering

Tools

GitHub

Bitbucket

Python

Bash

Go

Ruby

Kubernetes

Job description

Work Style: Hybrid – Currently 2 days a week but in next quarter it will be 4 days a week

Location: Downtown Toronto

Anticipated Start Date: 2-3 weeks from offer

Pay rate: $70 - $80 per hour

End Client: TD Bank

Contract: 1 year term

Job Summary

Gudian of the production environment

Provides integrated guidance across business, product and technology organizations to provide best practices for releasing software — from how the software is stored in the source code repository, to build rules for compilation, to how testing, packaging, and deployment are conducted. DevOps will be responsible as the guardian of the production environment, while balancing automation and speed.

• Job Description:CI/CD Pipeline management – building and maintain pipeline that automatically test and deploy code from development, optimized for heavy engine builds
• Infrastructure as Code – write scripts to automate server set up
• Monitoring and logging – setting up alters to monitor the stability of the environments
• Security integration – ensure security checks are built into the code deployment processes, implement automated security gates so no code reaches production without passing vulnerability scans
• Hybrid Infrastructure - managing a mix of cloud instances and bare-metal servers; cloud instances across platforms like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
• Audit trail automation – ensure every change to the infrastructure is logged and traceable. Build systems that can prove to a regulator exactly who changed what, and when
• Network Orchestration – configure software-defined networking to ensure the engine's wire protocols have prioritized bandwidth and low jiter
• Resiliency and chaos engineering – designing multi-region, multi-cloud disaster recovery strategies to ensure 99.9999% availability

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Key Skills & Competencies:University or post-graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering
• 7+ years in infrastructure/ DevOps, with at least 3 years in a highly regulated industry
• Certified Cloud Security Professional or Certified DevSecOps Professional
• Version Control -GitHub and Bitbucket
• Scripting – Python, Bash, Go or Ruby
• Experience with Mainframe integration or legacy middleware
• Strong problem-solving skills – ability to navigate high pressure asks with transparency and clear communication on progress/ next steps
• Highly adaptable – working in a GSIB, managing high volume of asks with shifting priorities
• Nice to Have:Certified Kubernetes Administrator
• Financial domain expertise – familiarity with ISO 20022, SWIFT, Fed and Lynx
• Experience using tools like CloudHealth or KubeCost to manage and optimize cloud spend
• Knowledge of eBPF for observability or DPDK for high-speed packet processing
• Experience with FPGAs or GPU-based computing clusters used for high-frequency data processing
• Understanding how to minimize latency spikes in a distributed wire engine environment