DevOps Specialist

IFG International Financial Group Ltd; Ontario; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled DevOps Specialist to join their dynamic team. This exciting role involves supporting critical Risk Applications and enhancing operational maturity through automation. You will engage with development teams to recommend improvements and lead technical training sessions. If you have a passion for technology and a commitment to customer satisfaction, this hybrid position offers a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a collaborative environment. Join a forward-thinking organization where your contributions will be valued and recognized.

Qualifications

• 3-4 years of experience in DevOps or strong system administration skills required.
• Experience with Tidal for operations and big data & Hadoop preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support operations of critical Risk Applications and provide automation recommendations.
• Ensure communication of operation status and provide excellent customer service.

Skills

DevOps

System Administration (UNIX, AIX, MS Windows)

Database Query Execution (MS SQL, Oracle)

Automation Improvement

Customer Service

Tools

Tidal

Atlassian Confluence

ServiceNow

Datastage

.NET Core

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 the 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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