Lead DevOps Engineer
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We are seeking a dynamic and technically strong **Lead DevOps Engineer** who thrives in fast\-paced environments and enjoys leading initiatives that drive operational excellence. As a **Lead DevOps Engineer**, you will play a critical role in bridging the gap between development and operations, ensuring that our applications are built, tested, and deployed with speed, reliability, and compliance with the Enterprise security standards. A key focus of this role is leading the migration of deployment automation from IBM **UrbanCode Deploy** (UCD) to **Octopus Deploy**, including the review and conversion of existing Groovy\-based deployment scripts into optimized Octopus Deploy solutions, rigorous testing, production enablement, and continuous improvement of enterprise CI/CD capabilities.
This is a 5\-month contract, hybrid position with the potential for extension. The successful candidate is expected to work from our Toronto office three days per week.
**What will you do?**
* Lead the design and development of key features for the Helios CI/CD pipeline – VM and Mainframe platforms * Lead the migration of CI/CD deployment pipelines from IBM UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) to Octopus Deploy, ensuring alignment with enterprise DevOps standards. * Review, analyze, and refactor existing UCD deployment scripts and workflows, translating them into Octopus Deploy processes and automation frameworks. * Develop, test, and optimize deployment automation in Octopus Deploy using C\# and modern DevOps practices. * Validate migrated pipelines through rigorous testing and ensure successful execution in production environments. * Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to simplify, standardize, and optimize deployment processes during the UCD\-to\-Octopus transition. * Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and release management teams to ensure smooth deployment operations and production readiness. * Troubleshoot and resolve deployment, automation, and release\-related issues across distributed and mainframe environments. * Contribute to CI/CD platform governance, security, reliability, and operational excellence.
**What do you need to Succeed?**
* Minimum 5 years of developer experience with a deep understanding of DevOps Principles and best practices for **CI/CD**, including designing at an Enterprise scale * Experience migrating deployment automation from legacy DevOps platforms (preferably IBM UrbanCode Deploy) to modern deployment orchestration platforms such as Octopus Deploy. * Proficiency in Groovy scripting with experience reviewing, maintaining, and refactoring existing automation scripts. * Strong development experience in C\# with the ability to build and optimize deployment automation within Octopus Deploy. * Experience designing, testing, and deploying production\-ready release automation solutions. * Deep understanding of DevOps principles, Infrastructure as Code, deployment orchestration, and release management best practices. * Understand configuration as code, RBAC, and working within the Mainframe environment from modern deployment platforms * Experience with DevOps tools, platforms, and interfaces: Jenkins, UCD, Github, Github Actions, JFrog Artifactory, Hashicorp Vault, Ansible, **Octopus Deploy** * Proficient with Java, **Python, Typescript**, **Groovy**, YAML, NPM * Experience with deploying to cloud platforms: OCP, **Azure**, AWS * Highly proficient with IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz). * Experience with Mainframe utilities and platforms: ISPF, TSO, Mainframe Filesystems, JES, Endeavor
We offer a competitive hourly rate, a casual workspace, and great people to collaborate with. If this job sounds perfect for you, please apply.
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