DevOps Specialist

IFG International Financial Group Ltd; Canada; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Canada seeks a DevOps Specialist for a 12-month hybrid contract role in Toronto. The ideal candidate has 3-4 years of DevOps experience, can support critical Risk Applications, and has strong system administration skills. Responsibilities include supporting operations, recommending improvements, and providing technical training. Interested candidates should submit their resumes to the provided email address.

Qualifications

• 3-4 years of experience in DevOps or strong UNIX/Microsoft Windows skills.
• Experience in using Tidal for operations and big data.
• Ability to execute database queries in MS SQL and Oracle.

Responsibilities

• Support critical Risk Applications operations.
• Recommend automation improvements to development teams.
• Prepare and lead technical trainings for users.

Skills

DevOps experience

System administration for UNIX (AIX)

Database query execution

Tools

Tidal

Atlassian Confluence

ServiceNow

Job description

Our client, a Top 5 Bank in Canada is looking to hire a DevOps Specialist to their team for an initial 12 months of contract with a possibility of extension/conversion. This role is currently hybrid, twice a week in office in Toronto. The DevOps Specialist contributes to the ongoing support and operations for applications within Global Finance and Risk Technologies.

Responsibilities Include:

• Support the Operations of critical Risk Applications such as Bancware (Asset Liability Management -ALM), RCRR, IFRS9, and others.
• Assessments into Application Operations Maturity and provide automation improvement recommendations to development teams
• Executing/monitoring Monthly/Quarterly Operations (shift hours will be required)
• Ensuring ongoing communication of Operation status, completing regular status reports and escalating issues, as required.
• As a part of a support team provide excellent services and become a trusted advisor to customers via proactive and enthusiastic social engagement, technical depth and highest level of customer satisfaction in every interaction.
• Recommend and implement improvements, document knowledge in the form of incident notes and technical articles through team's knowledge base and Bank-wide social media. Prepare, coordinate and lead technical trainings for end users and team members.

Must Have Qualifications

• 3-4 years of experience in DevOps (or) Strong system administration skills for UNIX (AIX), MS Windows
• Experience in using Tidal as a sequencer for operations and big data & Hadoop
• Database query execution - MS SQL, Oracle and MS Active directory.

Nice to have Qualifications

• Strong system programming skills, Autosys, Talent and scripting.
• Ability to use modern project and issue management tools (Atlassian Confluence and ServiceNow) for tracking own tasks and creating documentation/wiki
• Knowledge of Datastage, MS .NET or .NET Core framework and experience with MS TFS collaboration platform as an end user and/or administrator.

If you are qualified and interested in discussing this role in more detail, please submit your resume to [e-mail].

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