Job title: DevOps and Release Manager (Remote – Canada)
Company: Bank of Canada
Job description: DevOps and Release Manager (Remote – Canada)
Take a central role
The Bank of Canada has a vision to be a leading central bank—dynamic, engaged and trusted—committed to a better Canada. No other employer in the country offers you the unique opportunity to work at the very center of Canada’s economy, in an organization with significant impact on the economic and financial well-being of all Canadians. You will be challenged, energized and motivated to excel in our environment.
Building on the principles that have always guided us – excellence, integrity and respect – we strive to be forward-looking and innovative, to welcome people with diverse perspectives and talents, and to earn trust by living up to our commitments and by clearly explaining the intent of our policies and actions.
With our defined-benefit pension plan, benefits, and high flexibility for work life balance – find out more about why we are annually ranked as one of Canada’s top employers:
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Information Technology Services
Trusted and responsive, Information Technology Services (ITS) leads the Bank of Canada’s technology product, design, and service strategy. Within ITS, you will join our Core Technology Services (CTS) portfolio and become a member of a unified, diverse workforce responsible for the delivery, support, and operations of our mission-critical financial systems.
What you will do
- Act as the liaison between our portfolio clients and our CTS technology teams to assist in the deployment of solutions.
- Provide release support including available resources, schedule, and oversight of deployments.
- Develop implementation plans and deployment schedules with considerations to resource availability, interdependencies, client acceptance, and available change windows..
- Connect with the application development leads, architects, development team, and CTS SMEs to facilitate the deployment of solutions onto core infrastructure
- Ensure that the core infrastructure and platform patching is up to date to provide the reliable and stable environments for our clients
- Responsible to deliver the most complex components of a solution with high technical proficiency
- Contribute to the design and maintenance of the Dev Ops tool chain
- Utilize programming languages and industry DevOps tools to create, update and modernize delivery of solutions
- Represent the DevOps team as a SME including estimating capacity and throughput necessary for forecasting implementation and development activities.
- Responsible for consistent deployment processes as well as continuous improvements of the processes and tools used for managing releases.
- Provide deployment services to ensure the proper deployment and support of application release in progress and the final deployments into production
- Provide production support working with operational support groups to determine the root cause behind critical production incidents and process challenges
- Collaborate, share ideas, and coach colleagues
- Work to reduce technical debt and improve operational support.
- Drives cultural and technical change, through coaching, mentoring, and influencing in how people think/approach problems
- Design and maintain the DevOps toolchain using industry best practices and new advances
What you need to succeed
You are self-motivated and independent, requiring little supervision. You are also a great team player with strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate & coach colleagues in ITS. You are a self-starter with interest in lifelong learning new technologies and tools to improve the release processes in CTS.
In addition, you have experience with:
- DevOps principles and tools (e.g.: Git, Jenkins, Nexus, Flyway, etc)
- Automation concepts and implementation experience with automation
- Developing with complex applications, mid tier, database, UNIX, Linux and Windows systems
- Providing production support working with operational support groups
- Strong source code management experience and application building experience
- Risk and vulnerability assessment with a secure DevOps pipeline
Nice-to-have
- Developing and maintaining automated deployment scripts
- Experience integrating with an enterprise service bus and queue management system (i.e.: MuleSoft, MQ, etc…)
- Experience with enterprise job scheduling solutions
- MS Project, Service Now, and/or Jira expertise
Your education and experience
Your combined education and work experience demonstrate that you have the competencies for the position. We are ideally seeking candidates with a bachelor’s degree or college diploma in computer science, software development or a relevant field along with 7+ years of recent, relevant experience.
What you need to know
- Language requirement: English or French essential
- Priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents
- Security level required: Be eligible to obtain Reliability
- Please save a copy of the job poster. Once the closing date has passed, it will no longer be available.
- The official title for this position is “Senior DevOps Specialist ”
Remote work / Hybrid Work Model #LI-Remote
The Bank offers work arrangements that provide employees with flexibility, enable high-performing teams, and support an excellent workplace culture. Most employees can telework from home for a substantial part of each month as part of the Bank`s hybrid work model, and they are expected on site at the Bank location a minimum of eight days per month to help build connections between colleagues. You must live in Canada, and within reasonable commuting distance of the office. For this position, should you not live within reasonable commuting distance of the office, you will be able to work 100% remote (within Canada) for the duration of this term.
We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.
What you can expect from us
This is a great opportunity to join a leading organization and be part of a high-performing team. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to meet your needs at every stage of your life and career. For more information on key benefits please visit .
- Salaries are based on qualifications and experience and typically range from $88,504 to $110,630 (job grade 17)
- Depending on performance, you may be eligible for performance pay. The first tier of performance pay is for successfully meeting expectation, at 7 to 10% of your base salary. The Bank offers performance pay for those who exceed expectations (15% of your base salary).. Exceptional performers who far exceed expectations may be eligible for higher performance pay.
- Flexible and comprehensive benefits so you can choose the level of health and dental coverage that meets your needs
- Extra vacation days (up to five each year) that you can purchase to add to your vacation entitlement
- Option to join the indexed, defined-benefit pension plan after 24 consecutive months of service #LI-POS
We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.T
Expected salary: $88504 – 110630 per year
Location: Ottawa, ON
Job date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 22:34:21 GMT
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