Sr. DevOps Engineer, TD Securities

TD; Toronto; On-site; CAD 127,000 - 164,000; Full time

Job summary

TD Securities in Toronto is seeking a senior DevOps Engineer to join TD's Global Technology Solutions. You will steer infrastructure automation, deployment, and platform reliability in a fast-paced finance environment.

The role requires 7+ years of experience, strong Linux expertise, cloud (Azure), and deep involvement with the Hadoop ecosystem, delivering secure, scalable solutions through collaboration with architects and engineers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant DevOps/infrastructure experience.
• Expertise with Linux-based infrastructure and cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS/HBase/Hive/Zookeeper/Kafka).
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD, IaC, and automation practices.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Java for automation tasks.
• Demonstrated troubleshooting, monitoring, and incident response skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration with teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead deployment and automation across platforms, ensuring reliability.
• Design and implement scalable infrastructure and release processes.
• Collaborate with architects to align technology decisions with business needs.
• Monitor systems, diagnose issues, and drive resolutions.
• Contribute to security, DR plans, and cost-effective solutions.

Skills

Linux-based infrastructure

CI/CD/DevOps

IaC

Python/Java scripting

Troubleshooting

Monitoring & logging

Ownership & accountability

Strong communication

Cloud (Azure)

Education

Undergraduate degree or technical certificate

Graduate degree preferred

Tools

Linux

Hadoop

HDFS

HBase

Hive

Zookeeper

Kafka

Azure

Job description

Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours:

37.5

Line of Business:

Technology Solutions

Pay Details:

$126,800 - $164,100 CAD

This role is eligible for a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance.

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate’s skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

Job Description:

Department Overview

Building a World-Class, Diverse and Inclusive Technology Team at TD

We can’t afford to be boring. Neither can you. The scale and scope of what TD does may surprise you. The rapid pace of change makes it a business imperative for us to be smart and open-minded in the way we think about technology. TD’s technology and business teams become more intertwined as new opportunities present themselves. This new era in banking does not equal boring. Not at TD, anyway.

DevOps Engineer covers a number of functional disciplines or practice areas. These technology professionals demonstrate incredible commitment through their participation in a combination of build-related functions or activities, such as:

• Application and implementation of platform design patterns and standards for infrastructure components across various platform domains;

• Delivery Management functions within the build mandate to co-ordinate and drive deployment- related activities;

• Structured focus on project delivery to implement deliverables for their respective and specialized areas of infrastructure build; and

• Specialized Services functions that provision contact center infrastructure and network-related infrastructure work for Real Estate and/or Branch environments, hardware assets etc.

There’s room for you to grow in all of it.

Responsibilities:

We need someone to provide expert advice and lead in system and application administration, installation, configuration/provisioning, platform planning and design, integration and release and deployment management. This is a challenging role that will further hone your knowledge and skills in this area of expertise.

Meaningful work is fueled by meaningful performance and career development conversations with your manager. Here’s some of what you may be asked to perform:

• Identify, recommend, source, negotiate and implement solutions (buy/build/reuse) to enhance customer experience, availability, and cost-reduction.

• Influence product direction, foresee issues, identify solutions, work with leading-edge products untested or unproven in the market.

• Manage complex application deployment in load-balanced, service-oriented environment.

• Test, debug, perform, analyze and document environment components.

• Research business requirements, recommend best solutions for business technology architecture, collect environmental requirements for infrastructure implementation.

• Develop, configure environments from conceptualization through stabilization using various platforms.

• Design, implement, maintain an automated build and install/deploy process. develop, maintain build scripts.

• Troubleshoot initial failures, coordinate resolution efforts and communicate.

• Team up with Architects to ensure environment adjustments interact nicely and that data conversion and other areas meet performance requirements.

• Develop and recommend technical strategies and solutions to strengthen service levels.

• Collaborate with business leaders, technology professionals and external partners to assess project viability and priority.

• Lead or contribute to project management processes, conduct reviews.

• Integrate technical solutions with business environment, recognizing systems interdependencies and reusability and ensuring seamless delivery.

• Establish and maintain appropriate security levels for processes, information exchange and system implementations.

• Review, define, enforce and influence standards and appropriate quality metrics.

• Ensure systems and operational availability meet or exceed negotiated service levels, report results.

• Follow standards, policies, procedures, including disaster and business recovery plans, this includes business technology architecture, risk and production capacity guidelines.

• Develop and maintain solid processes to prevent, diagnose and resolve issues.

• Gain and maintain system development methodology expertise, key business initiatives and issues, implications for systems and technologies and impact on business solutions.

• Identify and deliver strategic solutions to support cost-effectiveness.

• Contribute to third-party negotiations.

Job Requirements:

• Undergraduate Degree or Technical Certificate.

• Graduate Degree preferred.

• 7+ years relevant experience.

• Experience as a primary subject matter expert in multiple areas and a consultant on all aspects of operational support and solutions.

• Interest in enhancing expertise, staying current with emerging industry trends, new technologies and best practices to help deliver effective client solution.

• Experience working on Linux based infrastructure

• Experience configuring and managing big data technologies / databases (including but not limited to Hadoop ,HDFS, HBase, Hive, Zookeeper, Kafka, etc) and understanding of various approaches to data storage and indexing

• Experience deploying, managing and operating in a Cloud environment e.g. Azure

• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps (CI, CD, CM, IaC etc) and Agile principles

• Understanding of Python and/or Java or other modern programming languages and the ability to code for automation

• Excellent troubleshooting skills

• Experience in infrastructure, services and application monitoring and logging

• Strong sense of ownership - strong organizational, follow-up and priority-setting skills to handle highly-complex and multi-faceted assignments and to work independently

• Excellent analytic, verbal and written communication skills combined with strong interpersonal skills to work effectively while supporting other members of the team in achieving unit objectives.

• Strength as a key resource in technical knowledge transfer between project teams, the business and/or outside vendors.

Additional Information:

Join in on what others in TD Global Technology Solutions are doing:

• Inspire a positive work environment and help champion quality, innovation, teamwork and service to the business.

• Learn voraciously, stretch your thinking, share your knowledge and educate others.

• Communicate and collaborate with both technical and non-technical professionals.

• Cultivate winning relationships by building trust with business and technology partners.

• Share our commitment to productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency.

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Who We Are:

TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience. With more than 6,500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe, we strive to make every interaction, product and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions. In 2023, we acquired Cowen Inc., offering our clients access to a premier U.S. equities business and highly-diverse equity research franchise, while growing our strong, diversified investment bank.

Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

Our Total Rewards Package

Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs. Learn more

Additional Information

We’re delighted that you’re considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we’re committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

Colleague Development

If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities.

If you’re passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.

Training & Onboarding

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process

We’ll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation

Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you’d like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Language Requirement (Quebec only):

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