DevOps Team Lead

Project Description: Applying to the position, you may join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. Our client is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds to ensure long-term sustainability. The company invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments. Client attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to: - Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders - Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment - Accelerated exposure and responsibility - Global career development opportunities - Being motivated every day by important social purpose and unshakable principles - A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here's an opportunity. Responsibilities: - Lead and mentor a distributed, multidisciplinary team to manage both operational support and DevOps functions, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. - Drive and adjust team objectives to meet OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), ensuring continuous improvement and meeting business needs. - Proactively monitor and enhance CI/CD pipelines, addressing potential issues, and implementing optimizations for improved performance and efficiency. - Collaborate with clients and stakeholders to identify the most effective infrastructure solutions and recommend tools that align with specific business objectives and technological requirements. - Foster close collaboration with development, testing, and QA teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment cycles. - Follow and uphold ITIL processes such as incident, change, and problem management, ensuring strict adherence to service management standards. - Ensure high-quality IT support services for internal and external stakeholders, continuously seeking opportunities to enhance key performance metrics such as response times, resolution rates, and customer satisfaction. - Oversee disaster recovery and business continuity planning to ensure infrastructure resilience and minimize downtime. - Stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends, bringing innovative solutions to improve operational efficiency and team performance. Mandatory Skills Description: Must-have (soft skills): - Proven experience in team and vendor management, leading teams of 4 members for at least 2 years, with the ability to coordinate across internal and external stakeholders. - Exceptional communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to clearly convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and ensure effective collaboration across diverse teams. - Strong initiative and proactive problem-solving skills, with a mindset focused on identifying issues before they arise and driving improvements without direct supervision. - Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments, preferably within the capital markets or investment banking sectors, with an understanding of the complexities and regulations involved. - Solid understanding and hands-on experience with ITIL processes, particularly in incident, change, and problem management. - Strong organizational and multitasking abilities, with a focus on prioritizing tasks and managing competing demands in a fast-paced environment. - Adaptability and flexibility, able to thrive in dynamic environments and adjust to rapidly changing requirements or priorities. Must have hard skills: - Extensive experience with Linux systems administration and troubleshooting in production environments. - Proficiency with AWS cloud infrastructure (AWS certification preferred), including best practices for cloud security, scalability, and automation. - Extensive hands-on experience with DevSecOps and GitOps methodologies, integrating security practices into the CI/CD pipelines. - Expertise with HashiCorp tools such as Terraform and Vault. - Strong experience with GitHub, including GitHub Actions - Proficiency with containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, with a CKA certification as a bonus. - Excellent troubleshooting skills for identifying and resolving system, network, and application-level issues. - Strong understanding of networking concepts - Familiarity with security gates and QA tools, ensuring secure software development lifecycles (SDLC). - Comprehensive knowledge of security practices, including SSL/TLS, encryption techniques, and certificate management. - Scripting and automation expertise, particularly in Python and Bash, with a solid understanding of API integrations for system automation. Nice-to-Have Skills Description: - Message brokers: IBM MQ or similar - Monitoring: Zabbix, Elastic - Security: jFrog Xray or similar, SonarQube, Qualys - ETL tools - Ansible - ArgoCD, including Rollouts - Artifactory - Powershell - Microsoft domain / ActiveDirectory, Windows administration - UrbanCode Deploy

Location: Toronto, CA

Posted Date: 3/3/2025