Senior DevOps Specialist to DevOps automation initiatives using Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, and AWS

Senior Dev Ops Specialist to support Dev Ops automation initiatives using Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, and AWS - 1752

Location:

Toronto or Waterloo (Hybrid – onsite once every two weeks)

* Should be eligible for Reliability Clearance (Must have lived in Canada for 5 consecutive years)

This contractor will support active Dev Ops automation initiatives and may contribute to emerging GenAI/agentic AI work depending on their background. The team is under delivery pressure and needs someone who can ramp up quickly, work independently, and take ownership of assigned initiatives.

• 5+ years of hands-on Dev Ops / Cloud / Automation engineering experience.
• AWS (preferred cloud): IAM, EC2, S3, RDS/Redshift, Lambda, Secrets Manager, VPC/networking, Cloud Watch.
• Ansible
  :
  Ansible Automation Platform 2 - advanced: roles, collections, Jinja templates, workflows, dynamic inventory, vault, custom execution environments.
• Jenkins - declarative & scripted pipelines, shared libraries (Groovy), JTE libraries, credentials management.
• Terraform - custom and reusable modules, state management, multi-environment deployments.
• Source control
  :
  Git and Bitbucket (branching strategy, PR workflows, pipeline integration).
• Scripting/programming
  :
  Python (primary), plus Power Shell and/or Bash.
• REST API
• Solid understanding of database operations and infrastructure
• Security & Credential Management
• Practical experience with secure password and certificate rotation at scale.
• Cyber Ark, Hashi Corp Vault, Active Directory, TLS
• Containers & Platform
• Docker/Podman image build and lifecycle.

• AWS certification (Solutions Architect / Dev Ops Engineer Professional).
• Observability tooling:
  Grafana, InfluxDB, Tableau.
• ITSM/Jira automation and integration experience.
• Experience in financial services or other regulated industries with audit/compliance requirements.
• Prior experience delivering enterprise-wide AI/automation platforms with multiple consuming teams.
• AI / GenAI
• Demonstrated experience building GenAI or agentic AI solutions in production or near-production.
• RAG - chunking, embeddings, vector stores, retrieval evaluation.
• MCP (Model Context Protocol) - building servers/clients and tool integrations.
• Agent frameworks - Lang Graph / Lang Chain, AWS Bedrock Agent Core (or equivalent agent runtime).
• Prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, guardrails, and cost/token awareness.

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, shared and JTE pipeline libraries) for database and infrastructure automation.
• Develop and extend Ansible roles, playbooks and execution environments for configuration management and operational automation.
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform and other IaC tooling.
• Implement secure, automated rotation and lifecycle management of passwords, service accounts, API keys and TLS certificates across cloud, database and Kubernetes environments, using Cyber Ark, Hashi Corp Vault, Active Directory/LDAP and Kubernetes secrets integrations.
• Design and build GenAI/agentic AI solutions - RAG pipelines, agent orchestration, MCP servers/clients, tool-calling integrations with internal REST APIs and Dev Ops systems.
• Integrate automation with enterprise systems via REST APIs (ITSM/ticketing, monitoring, source control, secrets platforms).
• Support operational readiness: logging, monitoring, alerting, error handling, and runbook automation.
• Follow enterprise security, compliance and change-management controls in a regulated (financial services) environment.

Duration:
Until Dec 31, 2026

Location:

Toronto or Waterloo (Hybrid – onsite once every two weeks)

* Should be eligible for Reliability Clearance (Must have lived in Canada for 5 consecutive years)

This contractor will support active Dev Ops automation initiatives and may contribute to emerging GenAI/agentic AI work depending on their background. The team is under delivery pressure and needs someone who can ramp up quickly, work independently, and take ownership of assigned initiatives.

• 5+ years of hands-on Dev Ops / Cloud / Automation engineering experience.
• AWS (preferred cloud): IAM, EC2, S3, RDS/Redshift, Lambda, Secrets Manager, VPC/networking,…