DevOps Engineer

TekStaff's Client has a current vacancy for a DevOps Engineer Pay Rate Range: $72\-90 Job Description **This is a 12 month contract located in Toronto, ON/ Hybrid (3\-4 days/ week)** Typical Day in Role: \- Collaborating closely with a team of UI developers, backend API developers, business system analysts, and architects to work on both new features and incremental improvements and provide your technical expertise towards success of the development team \- Communicating closely with the team through Teams daily \- Troubleshooting any issues in the test environment \- Work with stakeholders such as BA, application developers and other internal teams (Tech Ops, Dev Ops) \- Supporting the non\-prod and prod releases \- Tech Stack: Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Python, GitHub, Grafana Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills: • 10\+ years of overall experience in the IT industry supporting enterprise applications • 5\+ years of hands\-on experience in DevOps / SRE / Production Support roles supporting enterprise applications • 3\+ years of experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Azure Virtual Machines • 2\+ years of experience supporting and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, including build and deployment automation • 2\+ years of hands\-on experience with Azure services, including Azure DevOps for pipeline management and Azure Active Directory for identity and access management (Azure Administrator certification preferred) • 3\+ years of hands\-on experience with Splunk and Dynatrace for monitoring, alerting, and incident investigation • 3\+ years of strong Linux / Unix systems support and troubleshooting experience • 3\+ years of experience providing L2/L3 support in Banking or Capital Markets environments • 2\+ years of experience with Autosys and Python scripting for batch processing and automation Nice\-To\-Have Skills: • Experience supporting OpenShift Container Platform and Kubernetes\-based applications in production • Hands\-on experience with Grafana, Prometheus, and Jenkins • Exposure to Azure cloud infrastructure and services • Experience working with Oracle and SQL Server for database troubleshooting and performance tuning • Strong understanding of incident management, RCA, and ITIL processes, with exposure to tools such as ServiceNow • Previous recent experience with top 5 banks is nice to have Soft Skills: \- Good communication and teamwork skills to work with multiple groups across the bank, gathering requirements \- Comfortable with new technologies \- Flexible and able to pivot and adapt to change \- Accountable for and takes ownership of the work \- Eager to learn, mentor, and share ideas in a team environment Degrees or certifications: • Bachelor’s Degree level or above education, ideally in business, financial or technology. • Relevant certifications would be a bonus TekStaff may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of the applicant screening process. However, applications will also be reviewed by a member of our Recruitment team to ensure a fair and thorough assessment.