DevOps Project Manager - Realign

OpenTalent; Newport Beach (CA); On-site; USD 79,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent in Toronto, ON is seeking an experienced DevOps Project Manager to lead the end-to-end planning and delivery of complex DevOps and technology initiatives, aligning teams across delivery, infrastructure, security, and product owners.

The role requires strong project management, hands-on knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and governance. You will coordinate multiple squads, manage plans, risks, and dependencies, and ensure successful handoffs and operational readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex technology initiatives across multiple squads and enterprise teams.
• Experience with DevOps, software delivery, CI/CD, developer platforms, security controls, or engineering enablement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning and delivery of complex DevOps initiatives from mobilization through implementation, rollout, stabilization, and handoff.
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans covering milestones, dependencies, environments, testing, approvals, communications, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate delivery across DevOps, infrastructure, cloud, security, ServiceNow, application, data, platform, QA, and support teams.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Technical Leads, Architects, Engineers, Quality Engineers, security teams, and business stakeholders.
• Establish project governance, meeting cadence, decision paths, delivery controls, and escalation mechanisms.

Skills

Project management

DevOps

CI/CD

Security controls

Source-code management

Job description

Toronto, Ontario M5V 3L9 Posted September 12th, 2026

Job Description

Job Title: DevOps Project Manager Job Type: Full Time Location: Toronto, ON Work Model: Onsite

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Project Manager to lead the end-to-end planning and delivery of complex DevOps and technology initiatives. The ideal candidate will have strong project management experience combined with a practical understanding of DevOps, software delivery, CI/CD pipelines, security controls, and enterprise technology environments .

The successful candidate will coordinate multiple squads and cross-functional teams, manage delivery plans and dependencies, drive governance, and ensure projects are delivered on schedule with clear ownership, risk management, and operational readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning and delivery of complex DevOps initiatives from mobilization through implementation, rollout, stabilization, and handoff.
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans covering milestones, dependencies, environments, testing, approvals, communications, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate delivery across DevOps, infrastructure, cloud, security, ServiceNow, application, data, platform, QA, and support teams.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Technical Leads, Architects, Engineers, Quality Engineers, security teams, and business stakeholders.
• Establish project governance, meeting cadence, decision paths, delivery controls, and escalation mechanisms.
• Manage project scope, schedule, resources, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and changes.
• Drive action closure and proactively resolve delivery gaps, resource constraints, environment or access blockers, and integration dependencies.
• Coordinate test planning, UAT, production-readiness reviews, implementation activities, and post-implementation validation.
• Prepare executive-level status reports covering progress, milestones, forecasts, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and recovery actions.
• Coordinate stakeholder communications, demonstrations, readiness activities, support planning, and adoption activities.
• Ensure project deliverables, decisions, processes, and operational ownership are properly documented and transitioned.
• Apply lessons learned and continuous-improvement practices to improve delivery predictability and reduce operational risks.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong project management experience delivering complex technology initiatives across multiple squads and enterprise teams.
• Demonstrated experience with DevOps, software delivery, CI/CD, developer platforms, security controls, source-code management, or engineering enablement initiatives.