DevOps Project Manager

Acestack; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Acestack is seeking an experienced DevOps Project Manager to lead end-to-end planning and delivery of complex DevOps initiatives in Toronto. You will coordinate multiple squads, manage delivery plans, and ensure governance, risk management, and operational readiness across enterprise environments.

The role requires strong project management skills with practical DevOps and software delivery knowledge, including CI/CD pipelines, security controls, and collaboration with Product Owners,

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex technology initiatives across multiple squads and enterprise teams.
• Experience with DevOps, software delivery, CI/CD, security controls, and engineering enablement.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning and delivery of complex DevOps initiatives from mobilization through implementation, rollout, stabilization, and handoff.
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans covering milestones, dependencies, environments, testing, approvals, communications, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate delivery across DevOps, infrastructure, cloud, security, ServiceNow, application, data, platform, QA, and support teams.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Technical Leads, Architects, Engineers, Quality Engineers, security teams, and business stakeholders.
• Establish project governance, meeting cadence, decision paths, delivery controls, and escalation mechanisms.
• Manage project scope, schedule, resources, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and changes.
• Drive action closure and proactively resolve delivery gaps, resource constraints, environment or access blockers, and integration dependencies.
• Coordinate test planning, UAT, production-readiness reviews, implementation activities, and post-implementation validation.
• Prepare executive-level status reports covering progress, milestones, forecasts, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and recovery actions.
• Coordinate stakeholder communications, demonstrations, readiness activities, support planning, and adoption activities.
• Ensure project deliverables, decisions, processes, and operational ownership are properly documented and transitioned.
• Apply lessons learned and continuous-improvement practices to improve delivery predictability and reduce operational risks.

Skills

Project management

DevOps

CI/CD

Security controls

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Bitbucket

GitHub

Jenkins

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

Checkmarx One

Snyk

Kosli

Grafana

Tableau

Job description

Job Title: DevOps Project Manager
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Toronto, ON
Work Model: Onsite

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Project Manager to lead the end-to-end planning and delivery of complex DevOps and technology initiatives. The ideal candidate will have strong project management experience combined with a practical understanding of DevOps, software delivery, CI/CD pipelines, security controls, and enterprise technology environments.

The successful candidate will coordinate multiple squads and cross-functional teams, manage delivery plans and dependencies, drive governance, and ensure projects are delivered on schedule with clear ownership, risk management, and operational readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning and delivery of complex DevOps initiatives from mobilization through implementation, rollout, stabilization, and handoff.
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans covering milestones, dependencies, environments, testing, approvals, communications, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate delivery across DevOps, infrastructure, cloud, security, ServiceNow, application, data, platform, QA, and support teams.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Technical Leads, Architects, Engineers, Quality Engineers, security teams, and business stakeholders.
• Establish project governance, meeting cadence, decision paths, delivery controls, and escalation mechanisms.
• Manage project scope, schedule, resources, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and changes.
• Drive action closure and proactively resolve delivery gaps, resource constraints, environment or access blockers, and integration dependencies.
• Coordinate test planning, UAT, production-readiness reviews, implementation activities, and post-implementation validation.
• Prepare executive-level status reports covering progress, milestones, forecasts, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and recovery actions.
• Coordinate stakeholder communications, demonstrations, readiness activities, support planning, and adoption activities.
• Ensure project deliverables, decisions, processes, and operational ownership are properly documented and transitioned.
• Apply lessons learned and continuous-improvement practices to improve delivery predictability and reduce operational risks.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong project management experience delivering complex technology initiatives across multiple squads and enterprise teams.
• Demonstrated experience with DevOps, software delivery, CI/CD, developer platforms, security controls, source-code management, or engineering enablement initiatives.
• Practical understanding of the software delivery lifecycle, including source repositories, build pipelines, security scanning, deployment orchestration, approvals, environments, and production support.
• Strong experience creating integrated project plans, managing critical paths, dependencies, milestones, and cross-team deliverables.
• Excellent risk, issue, dependency, change, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to communicate technical delivery details and business impacts clearly to senior leadership.
• Strong facilitation, written communication, executive reporting, organization, and follow-through skills.
• Experience working in matrixed environments with teams that may not report directly to the Project Manager.
• Self-directed, pragmatic, and outcome-focused with the ability to bring structure to ambiguous or evolving initiatives.

Technical / DevOps Experience

• Strong understanding of standard DevOps tools, practices, and enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with tools such as Bitbucket, GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Checkmarx One, Snyk, Kosli, Grafana, and Tableau.
• Experience coordinating security-control implementation, vulnerability management, compliance evidence, exception processes, release gating, and production-readiness activities.
• Experience with application inventories, repository metadata, data reconciliation, database updates, dashboards, ETL processes, and data-quality remediation.
• Experience coordinating releases across Development, Stage, and Production environments.
• Experience with technical testing, business validation, implementation, and post-implementation verification.
• Experience with Jira and/or Planview AgilePlace.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management certification or formal Agile delivery training is an asset.
• Experience managing enterprise DevOps transformation or engineering-enablement initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies and enterprise governance practices.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple stakeholders, priorities, and complex technical dependencies simultaneously.