Manager, DevOps

EQ Bank | Equitable Bank; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Toronto is seeking a Manager, DevOps Engineering to enhance DevOps capabilities and lead a high-performing team. The role involves hands-on engineering efforts, troubleshooting, and implementing best practices. Candidates should have significant experience in operations and leadership. The position offers a competitive salary, benefits, and a hybrid work model.

Benefits

Competitive discretionary bonus

Market leading RRSP match program

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Employee Share Purchase Plan

Maternity/Parental top-up

Generous vacation policy

Annual professional development allowance

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Operations, DevOps with at least 2‑3 years in a leadership position.
• Familiar with Infrastructure-as-Code, container-based development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Lead the DevOps capabilities across EQB’s technology landscape.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Coach and mentor DevOps engineers while managing the team.

Skills

Leadership

DevOps culture

Problem-solving

Agile Development

Communication skills

Time management

Education

Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Windows VMs

Linux VMs

Java

GitLab

Job description

Join a Challenger

Being a traditional bank just isn’t our thing, so we challenge ourselves to get creative in providing innovative banking solutions for Canadians.

How do we get there? With a talented team of inquisitive and agile challengers that break through the status quo. So, if you’re passionate about redefining the future of banking—while having fun—this could be your next big opportunity.

Our company continues to grow, and today we serve more than 670,000 people across Canada through Equitable Bank, Canada’s Challenger Bank™, and have been around for more than 50 years. Equitable Bank’s wholly‑owned subsidiary, Concentra Bank, supports credit unions across Canada that serve more than six million members. Together we have over $125 billion in combined assets under management and administration, with a clear mandate to drive change in Canadian banking to enrich people’s lives. Our customers have named our EQ Bank digital platform (eqbank.ca) one of the top banks in Canada on the Forbes World’s Best Banks list since 2021.

The Work

Reporting to the Director of DevOps and Platforms, the Manager, DevOps Engineering is responsible for leading and scaling DevOps capabilities across EQB’s technology landscape—while remaining hands‑on with architecture, tooling, and incident resolution. This includes ownership of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, environment reliability, release governance, and operational tooling.

This is a player‑coach role: while managing a high‑performing team, you will also personally contribute to critical engineering efforts, help troubleshoot complex issues, and drive implementation of DevOps best practices across multiple application portfolios.

The Core Responsibilities!

• Lead by example: Be actively involved in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, automation scripts, and IaC modules.
• Guide the team in deploying and managing containerized applications in Kubernetes or cloud‑native environments.
• Support CloudOps team in automating infrastructure provisioning using tools such as Terraform, ARM templates, or Ansible.
• Support and participate directly in incident response, root cause analysis, and long‑term remediation of platform and pipeline issues.
• Coach, mentor, and grow DevOps engineers in both technical skills and delivery ownership.
• Champion a culture of observability, SRE principles, and operational readiness.
• Continuously improve build/deploy pipelines to increase speed, reliability, and security.
• Establish and maintain a secure, auditable release process aligned with compliance frameworks (PCI, SOC2).
• Work across teams (Developers, QA, Infra, Product, Security) to ensure alignment and successful delivery.
• Contribute to enterprise‑level DevOps strategy and roadmap definition.

Let’s Talk About You!

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent
• 8+ years of experience in Operations, DevOps with at least 2‑3 years’ in a leadership position
• Exposure to Agile Development practices
• Experience with real‑time monitoring of distributed systems
• Strong passion for building a DevOps culture, bridging Development and Operations
• Strong facilitation, negotiation and consultation skills, including the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing at all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to coach and mentor teams
• Sound understanding of contemporary development and operations practices, technologies, and methodologies
• Familiar with Infrastructure-as-Code, container‑based development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Excellent time management, organizational, and multi‑tasking skills
• Experience with hardware, O/S and SDLC tools such as: Windows VMs, Linux VMs, Docker, Docker Containers, MuleSoft, Java, Java Spring, Springboot, API gateways, Git, GitLab, JIRA, Confluence, Atom, Maven, Jenkins, jUnit, MUnit, SOAP, JSON, Blazemeter, LoadRunner, HPE UFT, JBOSS, Tomcat, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes

What we offer [For full‑time permanent roles]

💰 Competitive discretionary bonus

✨ Market leading RRSP match program

🩺 Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits

📝 Employee Share Purchase Plan

👶🏽 Maternity/Parental top‑up while you care for your little one

🏝 Generous vacation policy and personal days

🖥 Virtual events to connect with your fellow colleagues

🎓 Annual professional development allowance and a comprehensive Career Development program

💛 A fulfilling opportunity to join one of the top FinTechs and help create a new kind of banking experience

The incumbent will be working hybrid and in office time will be spent working from Equitable Bank’s additional office space located at 2200‑25 Ontario Street, Toronto, ON.

Equitable Bank is deeply committed to inclusion. Our organization is stronger and our employees thrive when we honour and celebrate everyone’s diverse experiences and perspectives. In tandem with that commitment, we support and encourage our staff to grow not just in their career path, but personally as well.

We commit to providing a barrier‑free recruitment process and work environment for all applicants. Please let us know of any accommodations needed so that you can bring your best self to the application process and beyond. All candidates considered for hire must successfully pass a criminal background check and credit check to qualify for hire. While we appreciate your interest in applying, an Equitable recruiter will only contact leading candidates whose skills and qualifications closely match the requirements of the position.

We can’t wait to get to know you!