Sr. DevOps Engineer - Windows, Cloud, Azure, Linux

at  TD Bank

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Looking for an individual with a strong engineering mindset, sense of ownership - strong organizational, follow-up and priority-setting skills to handle highly-complex and multi-faceted assignments and to work independently

• Undergraduate Degree or Technical Certificate
• 6-10 years relevant experience
• Appetite for contributing within a complex and critical environment
• Expert knowledge of specific domain or range of engineering frameworks, development, technology, tools, processes, and procedures, as well as organizational issues. Experience as a primary subject matter expert in multiple areas and a consultant on all aspects of technology and solutions
• Advanced and extensive knowledge of technical environment, standards, processes, procedures, operating systems, networks, design activities, best practices
• Strong experience working on Linux based and/or Windows infrastructure
• Experience deploying, managing and operating complex applications in a Cloud environment e.g. Azure
• Understanding of Python and/or Java or other modern programming languages and the ability to code for automation
• Understanding of critical concepts in CI, CD, CM and Agile principles
• Readiness and motivation (as senior or lead developer and valued subject matter expert) to address and resolve highly complex and multifaceted development-related issues, often independently.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Experience in infrastructure, services and application monitoring and logging
• Configuring and managing big data technologies / databases and understanding of various approaches to data storage and indexing is an asset

WHO WE ARE

TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience. With more than 6,500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe, we help clients meet their needs today and prepare for tomorrow. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions. In 2023, we acquired Cowen Inc., offering our clients access to a premier U.S. equities business and highly-diverse equity research franchise, while growing our strong, diversified investment bank. We are growth-oriented, people-focused, and community-minded. As a team, we work to deliver value for our clients every day.

We are looking for someone armed with a strong tool-kit to develop and maintain technical solutions that adhere to engineering and architectural design principles while meeting business requirements. You’ll also provide technical expertise with a focus on efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security includes planning, evaluating, recommending, designing, operationalizing, and supporting solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards. Sitting in this position will help expand your knowledge, strengthen your expertise and introduce you to the inner workings of our business alongside a team of seasoned, diversely-skilled technology professionals. The ideal candidate is willing, and able to research, maintain, configure, administer, and provision data platforms, infrastructure, applications, and services across our platforms.

• Perform systems administration: monitor, configure, back-up, authenticate, tune, maintain, monitor applications, services, and systems.
• Identify issues, develop, and maintain processes that address and resolve them, (and be sure to communicate/alert stakeholders as needed).
• Apply and share technical expertise during incident management life cycle (e.g. analyzes reports and outages, perform impact assessments, facilitate stakeholder communication).
• Apply your deep technology expertise to ensure that all areas across the organization that touch various technologies have the necessary tools, processes, and documentation they need to operate effectively.
• Partner with Operations to automatically integrate with appropriate tools and processes as part of automated/self-serve application, platform, or infrastructure releases.
• Apply an in-depth understanding of relevant business needs and work with technology partners to identify and leverage synergies across the various areas.
• Design, implement and maintain an automated build and install/deploy process; develop and maintain build scripts of projects and/or products.
• Evaluate and recommend optimal technology solutions within business technology architecture; collect environment requirements for infrastructure implementation by analyzing the current system environment, using technical tools and utilities.
• Integrate technical solutions within the business environment, recognizing system interdependencies and reusability, and ensuring seamless delivery.
• Perform Release Engineering functions for either cloud or non-cloud services, products and platforms
• Ensure effective change management (using ServiceNow).
• Give specialized support (like research, installation, configuration, L3 support) and meets or exceeds established standards/service levels, while minimizing operational risk.
• Design, review, integrate infrastructure and application requirements (non-functional, security, integration, performance, quality, operations etc.).
• Build/deploy base infrastructure components (e.g. Azure capabilities including Virtual Machines, ASE, AKS, Blob storage, geo-replication, etc.) and application services for all environments. Help evolve the base infrastructure and operational environment, deploy new technologies in Azure and other cloud providers.
• Maintain base infrastructure components, work with vendors (Azure) to report problems, and receive fixes.
• Implement Continuous Planning, Development, Integration, Deployment, Testing, Delivery & Monitoring, and Feedback
• Use metrics to monitor environment performance, pinpoint ways to boost performance and resource utilization.
• Be aware of and follow necessary processes/standards, business technology architecture, risk and production capacity guidelines.
• Create and document disaster and business recovery plans and procedures.
• Gain knowledge of TD services, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools and techniques, industry trends

We are looking for someone armed with a strong tool-kit to develop and maintain technical solutions that adhere to engineering and architectural design principles while meeting business requirements. You’ll also provide technical expertise with a focus on efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security includes planning, evaluating, recommending, designing, operationalizing, and supporting solutions in compliance with enterprise and industry standards. Sitting in this position will help expand your knowledge, strengthen your expertise and introduce you to the inner workings of our business alongside a team of seasoned, diversely-skilled technology professionals. The ideal candidate is willing, and able to research, maintain, configure, administer, and provision data platforms, infrastructure, applications, and services across our platforms.

• Perform systems administration: monitor, configure, back-up, authenticate, tune, maintain, monitor applications, services, and systems.
• Identify issues, develop, and maintain processes that address and resolve them, (and be sure to communicate/alert stakeholders as needed).
• Apply and share technical expertise during incident management life cycle (e.g. analyzes reports and outages, perform impact assessments, facilitate stakeholder communication).
• Apply your deep technology expertise to ensure that all areas across the organization that touch various technologies have the necessary tools, processes, and documentation they need to operate effectively.
• Partner with Operations to automatically integrate with appropriate tools and processes as part of automated/self-serve application, platform, or infrastructure releases.
• Apply an in-depth understanding of relevant business needs and work with technology partners to identify and leverage synergies across the various areas.
• Design, implement and maintain an automated build and install/deploy process; develop and maintain build scripts of projects and/or products.
• Evaluate and recommend optimal technology solutions within business technology architecture; collect environment requirements for infrastructure implementation by analyzing the current system environment, using technical tools and utilities.
• Integrate technical solutions within the business environment, recognizing system interdependencies and reusability, and ensuring seamless delivery.
• Perform Release Engineering functions for either cloud or non-cloud services, products and platforms
• Ensure effective change management (using ServiceNow).
• Give specialized support (like research, installation, configuration, L3 support) and meets or exceeds established standards/service levels, while minimizing operational risk.
• Design, review, integrate infrastructure and application requirements (non-functional, security, integration, performance, quality, operations etc.).
• Build/deploy base infrastructure components (e.g. Azure capabilities including Virtual Machines, ASE, AKS, Blob storage, geo-replication, etc.) and application services for all environments. Help evolve the base infrastructure and operational environment, deploy new technologies in Azure and other cloud providers.
• Maintain base infrastructure components, work with vendors (Azure) to report problems, and receive fixes.
• Implement Continuous Planning, Development, Integration, Deployment, Testing, Delivery & Monitoring, and Feedback
• Use metrics to monitor environment performance, pinpoint ways to boost performance and resource utilization.
• Be aware of and follow necessary processes/standards, business technology architecture, risk and production capacity guidelines.
• Create and document disaster and business recovery plans and procedures.
• Gain knowledge of TD services, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools and techniques, industry trends.