DevOps Team Lead

Luxoft; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a DevOps Manager for a hybrid role, offering an exciting opportunity to lead a multidisciplinary team in a dynamic environment. You'll drive operational support and DevOps functions, ensuring alignment with organizational goals while fostering collaboration across teams. This role emphasizes continuous improvement and innovative solutions in a fast-paced setting. If you thrive in environments that challenge your skills and value integrity and high performance, this position is perfect for you. Join us and make a significant impact in the investment management sector.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing teams and vendors for at least 2 years.
• Extensive experience with Linux systems and AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of ITIL processes, particularly in incident management.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary team to manage operational support and DevOps functions.
• Monitor and enhance CI/CD pipelines for improved performance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to recommend effective infrastructure solutions.

Skills

Team Management

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Linux Administration

AWS Cloud Infrastructure

DevSecOps

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Tools

GitHub

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Job description

Direct message the job poster from Luxoft

Hybrid role: 3 - 4 days per week in office

Project Description:

Applying to the position, you may join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. Our client is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds to ensure long-term sustainability. The company invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments.

Client attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:

- Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders

- Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment

- Accelerated exposure and responsibility

- Being motivated every day by important social purpose and unshakable principles

- A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here's an opportunity.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and mentor a distributed, multidisciplinary team to manage both operational support and DevOps functions, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

- Drive and adjust team objectives to meet OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), ensuring continuous improvement and meeting business needs.

- Proactively monitor and enhance CI/CD pipelines, addressing potential issues, and implementing optimizations for improved performance and efficiency.

- Collaborate with clients and stakeholders to identify the most effective infrastructure solutions and recommend tools that align with specific business objectives and technological requirements.

- Foster close collaboration with development, testing, and QA teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment cycles.

- Follow and uphold ITIL processes such as incident, change, and problem management, ensuring strict adherence to service management standards.

- Ensure high-quality IT support services for internal and external stakeholders, continuously seeking opportunities to enhance key performance metrics such as response times, resolution rates, and customer satisfaction.

- Oversee disaster recovery and business continuity planning to ensure infrastructure resilience and minimize downtime.

- Stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends, bringing innovative solutions to improve operational efficiency and team performance.

Mandatory Skills Description:

Must-have (soft skills):

- Proven experience in team and vendor management, leading teams of 4+ members for at least 2 years, with the ability to coordinate across internal and external stakeholders.

- Exceptional communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to clearly convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and ensure effective collaboration across diverse teams.

- Strong initiative and proactive problem-solving skills, with a mindset focused on identifying issues before they arise and driving improvements without direct supervision.

- Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments, preferably within the capital markets or investment banking sectors, with an understanding of the complexities and regulations involved.

- Solid understanding and hands-on experience with ITIL processes, particularly in incident, change, and problem management.

- Strong organizational and multitasking abilities, with a focus on prioritizing tasks and managing competing demands in a fast-paced environment.

- Adaptability and flexibility, able to thrive in dynamic environments and adjust to rapidly changing requirements or priorities.

Must have hard skills:

- Extensive experience with Linux systems administration and troubleshooting in production environments.

- Proficiency with AWS cloud infrastructure (AWS certification preferred), including best practices for cloud security, scalability, and automation.

- Extensive hands-on experience with DevSecOps and GitOps methodologies, integrating security practices into the CI/CD pipelines.

- Expertise with HashiCorp tools such as Terraform and Vault.

- Strong experience with GitHub, including GitHub Actions

- Proficiency with containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, with a CKA certification as a bonus.

- Excellent troubleshooting skills for identifying and resolving system, network, and application-level issues.

- Strong understanding of networking concepts

- Familiarity with security gates and QA tools, ensuring secure software development lifecycles (SDLC).

- Comprehensive knowledge of security practices, including SSL/TLS, encryption techniques, and certificate management.

- Scripting and automation expertise, particularly in Python and Bash, with a solid understanding of API integrations for system automation.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

- Message brokers: IBM MQ or similar

- Monitoring: Zabbix, Elastic

- Security: jFrog Xray or similar, SonarQube, Qualys

- ETL tools

- Ansible

- Powershell

- UrbanCode Deploy

Languages:

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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