DevOps Platform Administrator

Bank of Canada; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 92,000 - 109,000; Full time

Job summary

The Bank of Canada seeks a DevOps Platform Administrator committed to enhancing operational efficiency through automation. This role offers the chance to work with advanced technologies while contributing to the Bank's mission and also provides extensive opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Defined-benefit pension plan

Flexible work hours

Extra vacation days available for purchase

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a relevant field.
• Experience managing RHEL and Windows servers in a large-scale environment.
• Proven experience with software development life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Develop automation for RedHat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server platforms.
• Provide operational support and address incidents as required.
• Collaborate with teams to gather feedback and improve platform services.

Skills

Automation

Problem-solving

Technical leadership

Negotiation

Teamwork

Education

Relevant degree/diploma

Tools

Ansible

PowerShell

Azure DevOps

git

vscode

Job description

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Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
The Bank is committed to achieving a workforce that reflects the diversity of our country and isrepresentative and inclusive of all Canadians regardless of race, ethnicity, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, socio-economic background or lived experience. By living our values and prioritizing our actions to enhance equity, diversity and inclusion, the Bank ensures broader discussions, better decisions, and a more engaging workplace.

We make career growth and professional development a priority. We are committed to developing inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes, and a work environment that supports our diverse workforce.

Let our team know if you need accommodation or support during the recruitment process due to a disability or other reason. We can provide support in multiple ways, from using this site and submitting your application, right through to the interview process. If you are the successful candidate, you can also discuss accommodation needs when you receive your offer.

We invite you to join an organization where differences are seen as strengths and are recognized, valued and respected. We welcome all candidates to apply and strongly encourage candidates to self-identify if they identify with an Employment Equity designated group (Indigenous Peoples, Persons with Disabilities, Women or Racialized/Visible Minorities).

DevOps Platform Administrator

Take a central role

The Bank of Canada has a vision to be a leading central bank—dynamic, engaged and trusted—committed to a better Canada. No other employer in the country offers you the unique opportunity to work at the very center of Canada’s economy, in an organization with significant impact on the economic and financial well-being of all Canadians. You will be challenged, energized and motivated to excel in our environment.

Building on the principles that have always guided us – excellence, integrity and respect – we strive to be forward-looking and innovative, to welcome people with diverse perspectives and talents, and to earn trust by living up to our commitments and by clearly explaining the intent of our policies and actions.

With our defined-benefit pension plan, benefits, and high flexibility for work life balance - find out more about why we are annually ranked as one of Canada's top employers: Working Here - Bank of Canada

Please note that we are using this job poster to recruit for a contract position in addition to the permanent position.

About the position
We are seeking innovative developers with a mindset for continuous improvement to join our Core Technology Services (CTS) portfolio in our ITS Department!

Led by the Assistant Director, OS Platform and Operational Compliance, we are continuously investing to deliver outstanding services in a world-class organization where automation is combined with best practices to streamline and standardize products as well as improve the speed of delivery for Canada’ Central Bank.

Additionally, you will also have many opportunities for career development - both inside and outside of the portfolio. You will have the support of your leader to become a mentor (or a mentee), enhance your skills, experiment, and drive your career in many ways (certifications, labs, architecture, leadership etc.).

What you will do

As a DevOPS Platform administrator, you will be responsible for developing automation to strengthen the Bank’s RedHat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server platforms, both in our Bank data centers and in the cloud. Using strong problem-solving skillsets, you will leverage automation to continuously deliver, improve and maintain the support of these platforms, strengthening security and operational resilience along the way. This will include automation of patching, performance monitoring and software upgrades, and more! As you create or update automation code, you will collaborate and communicate with others to pass on knowledge and gather feedback. Along with improving our platforms service offerings through automation, you will provide “day to day” operational support of all of the Bank’s operating system platforms, addressing operational incidents or project work as required. As new issues or needs arise with these platforms, you will take the lens of leveraging automation to continuously improve and avoiding the “one off” fixes to solve a problem. You will follow a software development life cycle to document and test new automation, including planning code releases into production.

In addition, you will:

• Provide extensive support for RHEL 8 and 9
• Provide extensive support for Windows Server 2016+
• Monitor performance of systems and service agreements to ensure that ongoing service-delivery standards, service levels, IT policies and security standards are met.
• Assess and plan system needs; perform process re-engineering, operation management and research.
• Work autonomously, as well with other support teams, to analyze diagnostic information and/or resolve uncommon or complex problems in a multi-functional setting, assessing, and communicating technological issues that affect the functional or corporate level, and recommend solutions to more management.
• Develop IT standard operating procedures for technology support and administration.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with internal and external counterparts (vendors, portfolios, stakeholders ) to support operational objectives.

Note- The nature of this work will require additional paid on-call as well as paid overtime. These requirements are subject to change but typically involves an on-call rotation within the team of 1 week on-call every month (estimated) depending on capacity and team requirements.The Bank offers flexible work hours to accommodate.

What you need to succeed
You are a proactive thinker, and you question the status quo with the ability to take ownership in helping resolve and improve technical challenges while communicating effectively and collaborating across diverse product and development teams. You also possess the ability to self manage, prioritize, meet deadlines, and perform multiple tasks concurrently with strong relationships skills.

Further, you have strong technical leadership, teamwork, negotiating and technical decision-making skills needed to support a 24/7/365, multi-tiered large-scale production environment.

In addition, you have:

• Proven experience as a developer, managing code through a software development life cycle from creation to deployment in production.
• Proven experience as a Operational Platform Administrator (or similar role) within a large-scale environment (1000+ servers)
• Experience managing and deploying RHEL Linux and Windows servers in Azure public cloud
• Experience using Ansible to automate configuration of RHEL and Windows Servers

Nice-to-have

• Ability to develop and support Infrastructure as Code (IAC) with tools such as PowerShell
• Experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline builds, asset (VM) builds/updates, Azure cloud build/configuration.
• Working knowledge of git and vscode
• Experience with OpenSCAP
• Experience with Azure ARC

Education and Experience
Your combined education and work experience demonstrate that you have the proficiencies and skills for the role.We are ideally seeking candidates with a relevant degree/diploma and 5+ years of relevant experience for the DevOps Platform Administrator role

Language requirement

The Bank’s work environment is conducive to the use of both of Canada’s official languages - English and French. Although the position language requirement is English or French essential, we do encourage everyone to improve second their language proficiency for future career growth and to contribute towards fostering a bilingual environment.

What you need to know

• Priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents
• Security level required: Be eligible to obtain Reliability
• Relocation assistance may be provided, if required
• Please save a copy of the job poster. Once the closing date has passed, it will no longer be available.

Hybrid Work Model

The Bank offers work arrangements that provide employees with flexibility, enable high-performing teams, and support an excellent workplace culture. Most employees can telework from home for a substantial part of each month as part of the Bank`s hybrid work model, and they are expected on site at the Bank location a minimum of eight days per month to help build connections between colleagues. You must live in Canada, and within reasonable commuting distance of the office.

What you can expect from us
This is a great opportunity to join a leading organization and be part of a high-performing team. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to meet your needs at every stage of your life and career. For more information on key benefits please visit A great deal to consider .

• Salaries are based on qualifications and experience and typically range from $92,346to $108,643 (job grade 16)
• The Bank offers an incentive for successfully meeting expectations at 5 to 7% of your base salary. The Bank offers additional performance pay (3%) for those who exceed expectations.Exceptional performers who far exceed expectations may be eligible for higher performance pay.
• Flexible and comprehensive benefits so you can choose the level of health, dental disability and life and/or accident insurance coverage that meets your needs
• Extra vacation days (up to five each year) that you can purchase to add to your vacation entitlement

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position.Onlycandidates selected for interviews will be contacted.