Senior DevOps Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer at Scotiabank in Toronto building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, release management, and SRE practices for Microsoft Entra ID-based workforce authentication platforms. Core stack: Azure DevOps, Terraform, PowerShell/Python, Azure CLI, and Active Directory in a regulated banking environment.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Toronto, Canada
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong experience in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering or Site Reliability Engineering
- Hands-on experience designing and maintaining Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
- Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Python, Azure CLI or equivalent
- Experience with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and Active Directory
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code
- Experience with production release management, monitoring, observability, incident response and SRE practices
- Strong understanding of secure software delivery and DevSecOps principles
- Ability to troubleshoot complex platform and deployment issues across application, infrastructure, identity and cloud environments
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering, security, architecture and operations teams
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment supporting business-critical security platforms
Nice to have
- Terraform knowledge
- Experience with enterprise IAM or authentication technologies (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, MFA, Conditional Access, passwordless)
Full description
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.
Scotiabank is transforming its mission-critical Workforce Authentication platforms, and this role will help build the engineering foundation that enables those platforms to be delivered securely, reliably and at scale.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, Workforce Authentication Engineering, you will design, build and maintain the DevOps pipelines and automation supporting Microsoft Entra ID-based identity and authentication services. You will contribute across the engineering lifecycle, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD automation, release management, production reliability and site reliability engineering practices.
This is an opportunity for an experienced engineer to work at the intersection of cloud identity, security engineering, automation and platform reliability in a complex, regulated enterprise environment
Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:
Design, build and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for Microsoft Entra ID and Workforce Authentication services.
Automate platform configuration, deployment, validation and release activities to improve engineering efficiency and consistency.
Develop reusable deployment patterns and automation to support repeatable, controlled releases across environments.
Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code and configuration-as-code practices, including Terraform where appropriate.
Release & Environment Management
Support end-to-end release activities across development, test and production environments.
Implement deployment controls, automated testing, validation, rollback and release practices appropriate for security-critical platforms.
Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment reliability and reduce manual operational activities.
Maintain clear release documentation, operational procedures and evidence required for controlled changes.
Site Reliability Engineering
Help define and mature SRE practices for Workforce Authentication platforms.
Build monitoring, alerting, observability and operational automation to proactively identify service health issues.
Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, problem management and reliability improvements.
Develop automation and operational tooling that improve resiliency and reduce repetitive operational work.
Identity Platform Engineering