DevOps Engineer

Location: Toronto, ON

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid (Every Thursday and 1 Friday/month)

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 6 months (with potential for extension and conversion to FTE)
• Pay Rate: C$80.00–C$90.00 / Hour (CAD)
• Shift / Schedule: 37.5 hours/week, Monday to Friday

This DevOps Engineer role sits within the Global Asset Management (GAM) line of business and is focused on MOP (Maintain Operations/Tech Debt) funded activity. The contractor will be responsible for DevOps engineering across Azure DevOps and GitHub Enterprise, including leadership of ADO to GHE migration initiatives. The role serves as SME for deploying Azure solutions supporting web applications, setting up DevOps automation, and - nice to have - Azure Data Factory and Databricks. It requires expertise in CI/CD, infrastructure as code, cloud security, networking, monitoring, and operational readiness. The engineer will lead standardization of pipelines/workflows, automation frameworks, deployment governance, and cloud platform delivery across enterprise environments. This is an opportunity to modernize and influence technology decisions within an enterprise-scale financial institution.

DevOps and Source Control

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub Enterprise
• Proven experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of source control strategies, pull request workflows, and release governance
• Experience with policy and DevOps standards enforcement through workflow automation
• Experience defining reusable deployment templates/workflows

Migration Experience

• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting migration from ADO to GHE
• Experience transitioning repositories, pipelines, permissions, and deployment processes
• Strong understanding of migration planning, validation, cutover, and change adoption

Azure Cloud Deployment

• Strong experience deploying Azure-based solutions for:

• Web applications and APIs - Data integration services - Data engineering and analytics workloads

• Deep knowledge of Azure platform deployment patterns, environment setup, and production support considerations
• Ability to support end-to-end delivery across application, data, and platform services

Infrastructure as Code and Automation

• Hands-on experience with ARM templates, PowerShell, Azure CLI/GitHub CLI, or similar automation tools
• Ability to automate provisioning, configuration, and release processes
• Experience designing repeatable and scalable infrastructure deployment models

Security and Networking

• Strong understanding of Azure identity, secrets management, access control, and private connectivity
• Experience with cloud networking concepts including segmentation, routing, and secure communication
• Ability to embed security and governance into DevOps and deployment practices

Monitoring and Supportability

• Experience implementing logging, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational observability
• Ability to support production readiness, deployment health, and ongoing platform reliability
• Familiarity with backup, recovery, and resiliency practices

Leadership and Communication

• Strong stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Ability to lead technical discussions, mentor team members, and influence engineering standards
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to document processes and architecture decisions clearly

• GitHub DevOps

• Previous CIBC experience
• Service Now
• SNYK
• ServiceNow
• Hashicorp Vault

• Attention to detail
• Good work ethic
• Ability to work under pressure
• Patience

• 5 years of experience in a DevOps engineering capacity

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

This client is a leading Canadian financial services and banking institution operating across a broad national and international footprint, with a focus on asset management, treasury, and enterprise technology programs. The organization employs thousands of professionals spanning DevOps engineers, business analysts, enterprise programs analysts, data engineers, and technology leads who collaborate across agile, cross-functional teams at scale.

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-17438 Industry: Software Engineering

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