DevOps Specialist

Intact Financial; Montreal; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that values its employees at the core of its mission. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead complex DevOps initiatives, guiding development teams while solving unprecedented technical challenges. You'll work in a dynamic hybrid environment, balancing remote work with meaningful in-person interactions. The organization is committed to your growth and success, providing a supportive atmosphere where your contributions can shape the future. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Financial rewards program

Employee Share Purchase Plan

Extensive flex pension and benefits package

Flexible work arrangements

Extra days off

Annual wellness account

Support for physical and mental health

Learning opportunities

Inclusive employee-led networks

Community Impact program

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in DevOps practices and tools, especially CI/CD.
• Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure as code to manage resources.

Responsibilities

• Solving technical defects and conducting complex code reviews.
• Leading development teams on DevOps solutions and practices.

Skills

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Root cause analysis

Technical defect resolution

Bilingual (French and English)

Education

8 to 10 years of experience in a similar role

No Canadian work experience required but must be eligible to work in Canada

Tools

Kubernetes (K8S)

ArgoCD

DataDog

Terraform

GitHub actions

HashiCorp Vault

Istio

AWS

Job description

Our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times.

Our employee promise represents Intact’s commitment to you in exchange for living our Values, striving to do your best work, being open to change and investing in your career. In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us.

About the role

What you'll do here:

1. Solves technical defects that have never been encountered previously in the organization.
2. Conducts code reviews and designs and implements the most complex features across multiple devops platform ecosystems.
3. Guiding and influencing development teams on the devops solutions and practices.
4. Directs and performs root cause analysis of critical business and production platform issues.
5. Providing expertise for software development teams, reviews and approves resulting action plans (e.g., directs development/ execution and prioritization of offensive and defensive backlogs) and leads implementation (collaborating with the software engineering teams to define priorities).
6. Leads development of requirements, evaluates risk (i.e. impact and likelihood) of architecture on overall solution and provides alternatives for other possible solutions.
7. Providing high level estimation for preliminary project planning.
8. Capacity and cost planning for hardware, software and storage.
9. Directs and reviews design artifacts and proof-of-concept around platforms for large, complex initiatives.
10. Implements prototypes to validate ideas within a cost effective and secure manner.
11. Acts as SME on platforms to provide guidance and recommendations to the software development teams.
12. Recommends technologies/tools to facilitate integrations between product stacks.
13. Interpreting security policies and ensuring platform designs conform with security guidelines.
14. Ensure observability, best practices and KPI's are implemented in the solutions, provide support to platforms to ensure success of the software development teams to deliver greater value to the business.
15. Implementing high availability solutions with multi-tiered recoverability, i.e. disaster recovery, data recovery, data backups, etc.
16. Problem management to look at possibilities to iterate on the solution and minimize impacts.
17. Provides technical direction to software development teams to ensure seamless and more frequent deployments in the future.

What you bring to the table:

1. 8 to 10 years of experience in a similar role.
2. Experience with DevOps practices and tools, including CI/CD pipelines.
3. Technologies: K8S, ArgoCD, DataDog, Terraform, GitHub actions, HashiCorp Vault, Istio, AWS.
4. Proficiency in using Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC) to automate the provisioning and management of resources.
5. Bilingual (French and English): Need to interact on a regular basis with an English-speaking clientele and colleagues across the country.
6. No Canadian work experience required but must be eligible to work in Canada.

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What we offer

Our hybrid work model provides the balance between working from home and enjoying meaningful in-person interactions.

Working here means you'll be empowered to be and do your best every day. Here is some of what you can expect as a permanent member of our team:

1. A financial rewards program that recognizes your success.
2. An industry leading Employee Share Purchase Plan; we match 50% of net shares purchased.
3. An extensive flex pension and benefits package, with access to virtual healthcare.
4. Flexible work arrangements.
5. Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year.
6. An annual wellness account that promotes an active and healthy lifestyle.
7. Access to tools and resources to support physical and mental health, embracing change and connecting with colleagues.
8. A dynamic workplace learning ecosystem complete with learning journeys, interactive online content, and inspiring programs.
9. Inclusive employee-led networks to educate, inspire, amplify voices, build relationships and provide development opportunities.
10. Inspiring leaders and colleagues who will lift you up and help you grow.
11. A Community Impact program, because what you care about is a part of what makes you different. And how you contribute to your community should be just as unique.

We are an equal opportunity employer

At Intact, our Value of respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength. We strive to create an accessible workplace where employees feel valued, included and encouraged to share their unique perspectives.

We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

As part of Intact’s commitment to reconciliation, we acknowledge that we work, meet and travel across the land currently called Canada, originally inhabited by First Nations, Metis and Inuit people. This history extends through many centuries and continues to evolve today.

We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations). A copy of applicable policies is available on request.

If we can provide a specific adjustment to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please let us know when we reach out about a job opportunity. We’ll work with you to meet your needs.