Preferred locations: Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa & Saint John, New Brunswick. We will consider other locations based upon the candidates match to requirements.
The client team is on a journey to transform how we deliver the best customer experience with seamless access to a software-driven and cloud-based ecosystem of products, services and content. This transformation is about simplifying, virtualizing and automating the network transport and services to lower costs and increase agility to deploy services.
As a DevOps Agile Coach, you will closely work with DevOps teams and help improve their DevOps skills and Practices by transitioning from a traditional way of delivering software to a DevOps / Agile approach. Your responsibility is to help teams follow a process that will allow them to develop software more efficiently and effectively.
You will have to coach teams through their iterations and improve their level of automation by implementing Continuous integration / Continuous Deployment framework that ensure enablement and compliance to code quality and security checks. You will also be involved in the creation of training materials to be used by the pairing / coached teams to help them faster the adoption and upskilling

Help teams Upskilling and adopt DevOps Best Practices

• Help development team onboard to the Golden CI/CD Template
• Collaborate with the program team to enhance & Customize the Golden Pipeline based on the teams requirements
• Provide DevOps Delivery coaching to teams on all aspects of the software delivery lifecycle Framework, with a strong focus on TDD, BDD and shifting left security compliance and removing Technical Debt.
• Provide team and Product Ownership/scrum masters coaching around Product centricity and DevOps / Agile fundamental practices
• Observes the team to understand and remove impediments keeping the team from operating effectively as a DevOps / Agile team
• Work closely with the team and Identify opportunities for automation
• Create training materials relative to specific DevOps training needs
• Participate in enterprise DevOps transformation team effort

YOUR FUTURE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The team is responsible for providing shared capabilities to the different delivery teams:

• DevSecOps Enablement Continuous Exploration Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment Continuous Testing Continuous Monitoring
• Tooling offering (Gitlab, Jfrog Artifactory, Ansible, SonarQube…)
• Secure SDLC Enablement
• Agile Practice Enablement (based on SAFe)

Help teams Upskilling and adopt DevOps Best Practices

• Help development team onboard to the Golden CI/CD Template
• Collaborate with the program team to enhance & Customize the Golden Pipeline based on the teams requirements
• Provide DevOps Delivery coaching to teams on all aspects of the software delivery lifecycle Framework, with a strong focus on TDD, BDD and shifting left security compliance and removing Technical Debt.
• Provide team and Product Ownership/scrum masters coaching around Product centricity and DevOps / Agile fundamental practices
• Observes the team to understand and remove impediments keeping the team from operating effectively as a DevOps / Agile team
• Work closely with the team and Identify opportunities for automation
• Create training materials relative to specific DevOps training needs
• Participate in enterprise DevOps transformation team efforts

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE

• 10+ years of experience working within a DevOps environment with expertise in infrastructure-as-code and understanding of software/application development
• 5+ years expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCE, OpenStack, VMWare, etc.) and Linux/Windows operating systems
• Experience with configuration management and infrastructure provisioning tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef Provisioning)
• Experience with Docker containers and container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and/or leading a team and able to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization
• Deep understanding of the DevOps philosophy and Agile methods
• Automating traditional processes with scripting or configuration management

•Ability to diagnose technical problems, debug code, and coach on how to automate routine tasks• Experience of the full software delivery lifecycle and deep Knowledge of Software Engineering work, DevOps,TDD, CI/CD, …

• An analytic spirit who sees a product/system as a series of small deliverables who has the ability to transfer this vision through workshops (story mapping, customer journey etc.)
• Strong experience on leading large projects, transformation efforts, process improvements, product implementations, systems development and integration efforts
• An individual who can adapt to uncertainty and change with elegance.
• Bilingual French and English (written and verbal) is an asset.

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