We are looking for a Senior DevOps Lead to support a long-term contract opportunity in Oakville, Ontario within the energy and natural resources sector. This role is suited to a senior technical leader who can shape cloud and DevOps strategy, strengthen secure delivery practices, and guide architecture decisions across complex environments. The successful candidate will work closely with key stakeholders and technical leads while providing mentorship to team members and helping advance scalable, reliable platform operations. This is a 6 month contract role to start, hybrid (2 days in office) for our client in Oakville, Ontario.
Responsibilities:
- Define and drive the overall DevOps and cloud roadmap, with a strong emphasis on Azure-based solutions and enterprise delivery practices.
- Lead the design and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient, secure, and dependable software releases.
- Embed security considerations into build, deployment, and operational workflows to promote stronger governance across the delivery lifecycle.
- Partner with internal stakeholders and existing technical leadership to align platform strategy with business and operational priorities.
- Provide high-level architectural guidance for infrastructure, automation, and deployment models in complex cloud environments.
- Mentor engineers and cross-functional team members by sharing best practices in DevOps, cloud operations, and modern delivery methods.
- Oversee configuration management and deployment standards to improve consistency, traceability, and system stability.
- Support large-scale environments by identifying opportunities to optimize performance, resilience, and operational efficiency.
- Extensive experience in DevOps engineering with a strong track record in technical leadership and architectural decision-making.
- Hands-on knowledge of Azure cloud services, along with familiarity with broader AWS technologies such as Amazon EC2.
- Proven experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and configuration management processes.
- Strong understanding of secure DevOps practices, including integrating security controls and awareness into delivery pipelines.
- Experience with tools and technologies such as Ansible, Apache Ant, Apache Tomcat, and Atlassian Jira.
- Ability to lead technical discussions with stakeholders, influence direction, and collaborate effectively across teams.
- Demonstrated success mentoring team members and guiding engineering teams in large-scale or enterprise environments.
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