Lead DevOps Engineer

MasterCard; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer in Toronto. This role supports growth through modernizing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery strategies, driving automation, and ensuring secure and efficient software delivery. Ideal candidates will possess strong communication skills and deep technical expertise in cloud and automation technologies.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in software builds and deployment tooling.
• Excellent knowledge of security best practices.
• Extensive experience with hybrid cloud-based practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead, track, and manage complex initiatives.
• Build automation processes and frameworks.
• Bridge knowledge gaps between Operations and Development teams.

Skills

Communication

Software builds and deployment tooling

Infrastructure automation code

Security best practices

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Jenkins

Gitlab

Docker

Chef

Microsoft Azure

Job description

Job Title:

Lead DevOps Engineer

Overview:

Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart, and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary
Lead DevOps Engineer

Who is Mastercard?

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere, by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships, and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team –one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results.


Overview

The Platform Engineering team is looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to support our continued growth and success by supporting, scaling, modernizing, and advancing our Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery strategies to build, deploy, test, package, and release software rapidly to production.

Role

Lead, track, and manage complex initiatives and projects independently
Work closely with agile teams, collaborating with Developers, Product Owners, and Operations on defining requirements, design, and implementation
Build automation, processes, and frameworks to automate provisioning of infrastructure and platform
Drive consistency, where needed, across scrum teams in delivering product in a repeatable, reliable, and secure manner
Bridge any knowledge gaps between Operations and Development teams
Work efficiently with an exceptional attention to detail around a high security environment (Ethoca is PCI-DSS Level 1 certified, and must satisfy multiple audit requirements across several third-party auditors)

All About You

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal with the ability to convey knowledge, explain technical problems, influence outcomes, and communicate your vision and roadmap effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders
• Strong expertise in software builds and deployment tooling – Jenkins, Gitlab, Nexus implemented using Docker/Docker Swarm integrated with other on-prem and cloud tools
• Extensive experience implementing on-prem and hybrid cloud-based practices – Efficiency, Repeatability, Instrumentation, Scalability, and Security
• Deep understanding of platform services such as compute, storage, network, load balancers both on-prem (VMWare) and cloud (Microsoft Azure)
• Excellent knowledge writing infrastructure automation code using Chef/Ruby
• Advanced experience in security best practices including managing and storing secrets, tokens, certificates, and other sensitive data, hardening, and securing OS images
• Exceptional research, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Advanced capability to mentor and motivate others to push positive changes in terms of process and technology improvements
• Passion to go out of your way to understand agile scrum team challenges or opportunities, looking to deliver impactful solutions
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in team environments with a proactive and cooperative mindset.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent hands-on experience in related technical fields.