Senior Manager, Technical Management

Wellington-Altus; Canada; On-site; CAD 125,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Accident and life insurance

Discretionary bonuses

Job summary

Wellington-Altus seeks a Senior Manager, Technical Management to shape and execute the enterprise infrastructure strategy across a multi-cloud landscape. You will bridge development, operations, architecture, InfoSec, and business stakeholders with hands‑on leadership.

You will drive standardization, incident response, and security‑first automation while mentoring a high‑performing engineering team and aligning with enterprise goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or compatible field.
• 7–10 years in infrastructure and operations roles.
• Strong knowledge of cloud ecosystems (AWS/Azure/GCP) and multi-cloud management.
• Experience with containerization and configuration management tools.
• Familiarity with ITSM, incident management, and security/compliance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute enterprise infrastructure strategy and roadmaps.
• Lead high‑performance teams across multi-cloud environments.
• Partner with Architecture and InfoSec to ensure compliance.
• Develop and measure KPIs to report to leadership.
• Mentor engineers and drive engineering excellence.

Skills

Cloud architectures

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Site Reliability Engineering

Multi-cloud

Incident management

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalent

Technical diploma in related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Job description

Location

This position will be based out of our Winnipeg or Toronto office.

Our organization

Founded in 2017, Wellington-Altus Financial Inc. (Wellington-Altus) is one of Canada's Top Growing Companies* and the parent company to Wellington-Altus Private Counsel Inc., Wellington-Altus USA Inc., Wellington-Altus Insurance Inc., Wellington-Altus Group Solutions Inc., Independent Advisor Solutions Inc., and Wellington-Altus Private Wealth Inc - the top-rated** investment dealer in Canada. With more than $50 billion in assets under administration and offices across the country, Wellington-Altus identifies with successful, entrepreneurial advisors and portfolio managers, and their high-net-worth clients.

• Report on Business 2025 rankings.
• Investment Executive 2026 Brokerage Report Card.

The opportunity

Reporting to the VP, Technology Services the Senior Manager, Technical Management is a leader responsible for shaping and executing the enterprise-wide Infrastructure strategy. This role leads high-performance teams in building scalable, secure, and automated systems that support the company's initiatives. The Senior Technical Manager bridges the gap between development, operations, architecture, InfoSec, and business stakeholders, providing both technical depth and leadership.

This position combines hands-on engineering with stakeholder engagement, strategic planning, team development, and the continuous evolution of technology practices across the enterprise.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with Architecture and InfoSec to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and compliance requirements
• Collaborate with other technological and business teams
• Serve as the enterprise Subject Matter Expert (SME) and thought leader on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and cloud-native delivery models
• Define and own the roadmap for platform engineering; champion industry best practices and continuous improvement
• Drive standardization of technology practices and toolsets across teams and business lines
• Develop KPIs to measure and communicate performance and delivery outcomes to senior leadership
• Guide complex, large-scale deployments across multi-cloud environments
• Lead design and implementation of resilient service mesh, observability platforms, and container orchestration at scale
• Maintain hands-on engagement in architecture decisions, performance optimization, and incident resolution as needed
• Evangelize security-as-code, reliability, and automation-first culture
• Build, inspire, and retain a high-performing engineering team, network, and systems teams; mentor senior engineers and promote engineering excellence
• Manage resource allocation, capacity planning, and succession planning for infrastructure teams
• Collaborate with PMO and Delivery Management teams to prioritize and deliver strategic & tactical initiatives
• Act as a senior escalation point for enterprise-critical delivery and operations issues
• Cultivate strong working relationships with business and technology executives
• Other duties as assigned

The ideal candidate

• 7-10 years total experience in infrastructure and operations space
• Bachelor’s in computer science, technical diploma or equivalent
• AWS Certified is a strong asset
• Expert knowledge of cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) and managing cloud-native application stacks
• Advanced expertise in containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), configuration management (Terraform, Ansible), and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Proven experience scaling infrastructure capabilities in regulated industries (financial services)
• Experience with ITSM, incident management, compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO, etc.)
• Management of multiple cloud platform and services
• Management of multiple applications and systems
• Collaborative configuration of networking and security properties
• Collaborative automated and manual deployment of services and applications
• Collaborative infrastructure management and system administration
• Fundamentals of virtual machines and containers
• Fundamentals of networking
• Fundamentals of cloud security
• Fundamentals of enterprise monitoring

Compensation & Benefits

Range $125,000 to $135,000 annually.

This range represents Wellington-Altus's expected range of compensation for this position. Actual compensation will vary and will be based on various factors, such as location, skills, experience, and qualification for the role. Compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked.

• Wellington-Altus's total compensation package for employees may also include discretionary bonuses as well as other perks and rewards.
• Wellington-Altus also offers health insurance, accident and life insurance, and other unique benefits per location.

Conditions of employment

• Must be legally eligible to work in Canada.
• A background check, satisfactory to the employer, may be required of the successful applicant prior to commencing employment.

Wellington-Altus Private Wealth is strongly committed to equity and diversity within its community and welcomes applications from women, racialized persons, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations and genders. All qualified individuals who would contribute to the further diversification of our organization are encouraged to apply.

If you require accommodation for the recruitment process, please let us know at the point of application.