DevOps - Application Release Engineer

ON
Hybrid
Posted Oct 21, 2026
1 position

$85 / hour

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Employment type: Contract
Experience level: Senior · 5+ years
Minimum education: Professional degree
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Office presence: 3 days per week
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Application method: Direct apply is available

Job summary

Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code systems, monitoring, security gates, and audit trails for production releases. Manage hybrid cloud and bare-metal infrastructure, network orchestration, and resilient multi-region disaster recovery while protecting availability and performance.

Job details

Hiring DevOps – Application Release Engineer (AWS-certified DevOps engineer and Certified Kubernetes Administrator). Preference will be given to candidates whose resumes clearly meet the required experience and requirements outlined below. Professionals with relevant experience may send their updated resume to Sriram.Parasa@brainhunter.com Requirement Summary Job-Role/Title: DevOps – Application Release Engineer Anticipated Start Date: 3 weeks from offer (pending background checks) Job Type: Contract Opportunity. Initial contract for 12 months, with good possibilities of further extensions. Job Location: Toronto, ON, Canada. Work Style: Hybrid Work - 3 days per week in the office required (Tuesday and Thursday are mandatory). Work Hours: 40 hours/week, typically Monday-Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Contractor to work extra time or be on-call: Yes, might require on-call support (Monday to Sunday) as needed. Rate Cap: Up to CA$ 85/Hr. (on Incorp), depending on relevant experience. The final compensation will be negotiated between the contractor and recruiter based on experience and engagement terms. Interview: Teams interviews; 2 interviews Required Experience, Skills, and Qualifications: 8+ years in infrastructure/ DevOps, with at least 3 years in a highly regulated industry Financial domain expertise – familiarity with ISO 20022, SWIFT, Fed and Lynx Experience using tools like CloudHealth or KubeCost to manage and optimize cloud spend Knowledge of eBPF for observability or DPDK for high-speed packet processing Experience with FPGAs or GPU-based computing clusters used for high-frequency data processing Understanding how to minimize latency spikes in a distributed wire engine environment AWS certified DevOps engineer Certified Kubernetes Administrator Certified Cloud Security Professional or Certified DevSecOps Professional Containerization – Docker, Kubernetes CI/CD tool – Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub IaC & configuration – Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Pulumi Cloud providers – Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure Version Control -GitHub and Bitbucket Scripting – Python, Bash, Go, or Ruby Databases – PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Oracle Experience with Mainframe integration or legacy middleware Strong problem-solving skills – ability to navigate high-pressure asks with transparency and clear communication on progress/ next steps. Highly adaptable – working in a GSIB, managing high volume of asks with shifting priorities University or post-graduate degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering ___________________________________________________________ Position Overview: Guardian of the production environment. Provides integrated guidance across business, product, and technology organizations to provide best practices for releasing software — from how the software is stored in the source code repository, to build rules for compilation, to how testing, packaging, and deployment are conducted. The DevOps Engineer will serve as the guardian of the production environment while balancing automation and speed. Key Responsibilities & Deliverables: CI/CD Pipeline management – building and maintaining a pipeline that automatically tests and deploys code from development, optimized for heavy engine builds Infrastructure as Code – write scripts to automate server setup Monitoring and logging – setting up alerts to monitor the stability of the environments Security integration – ensure security checks are built into the code deployment processes; implement automated security gates so no code reaches production without passing vulnerability scans Hybrid Infrastructure - managing a mix of cloud instances and bare-metal servers; cloud instances across platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Audit trail automation – ensure every change to the infrastructure is logged and traceable. Build systems that can prove to a regulator exactly who changed what, and when Network Orchestration – configure software-defined networking to ensure the engine's wire protocols have prioritized bandwidth and low jitter Resiliency and chaos engineering – designing multi-region, multi-cloud disaster recovery strategies to ensure 99.9999% availability ___________________________________________________________ How to Apply: Please email your up-to-date Resume/CV to Sriram.Parasa@brainhunter.com Thank you for your interest in working with us. We'll contact only those candidates who are shortlisted for the next steps in the hiring process. Thank you, and have a wonderful day!

What you’ll do

Requirements

Requires 8+ years of infrastructure or DevOps experience, including at least 3 years in a highly regulated industry, plus financial-domain familiarity and experience with cloud cost optimization, observability, and low-latency systems. Candidates should hold AWS DevOps Engineer and Certified Kubernetes Administrator certifications, have relevant cloud, container, automation, scripting, and database skills, and possess a computer science or software engineering degree.