DevOps – Application Release Engineer

Toronto, ON
Hybrid
Posted Oct 14, 2026
1 position

$70–$80 / 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: 4 days per week
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Application method: Direct apply is available

Job summary

Manage and safeguard production environments by building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code systems, monitoring, security gates, and audit trails. Orchestrate hybrid cloud and bare-metal infrastructure, networking, and resilient disaster recovery to support secure, highly available software releases.

Job details

Work Style: Hybrid – Currently 2 days a week but in next quarter it will be 4 days a week Location: Downtown Toronto Anticipated Start Date: 2-3 weeks from offer Pay rate: $70 - $80 per hour End Client: TD Bank Contract: 1 year term Job Summary: Gudian 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. DevOps will be responsible as the guardian of the production environment, while balancing automation and speed. Job Description:CI/CD Pipeline management – building and maintain pipeline that automatically test and deploy code from development, optimized for heavy engine builds Infrastructure as Code – write scripts to automate server set up Monitoring and logging – setting up alters 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 jiter Resiliency and chaos engineering – designing multi-region, multi-cloud disaster recovery strategies to ensure 99.9999% availability Required Qualifications & Experience: Key Skills & Competencies:University or post-graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering 7+ years in infrastructure/ DevOps, with at least 3 years in a highly regulated industry AWS certified DevOps engineer Certified Cloud Security Professional or Certified DevSecOps Professional Key Skills & Competencies: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 Nice to Have:Certified Kubernetes Administrator 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

What you’ll do

Requirements

Requires a university or postgraduate degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, at least seven years of infrastructure or DevOps experience, and three years in a highly regulated industry. Candidates should have relevant AWS and cloud security certifications, experience with containers, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, cloud platforms, scripting, databases, and legacy or mainframe integration.