DevOps Director

The Director of DevOps will lead a DevOps team in a logistics technology company, focusing on automating development processes and managing infrastructure reliability.

Location: Remote (Canada)

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire a DevOps team, driving excellence in project management, tool selection, mentoring, and developing DevOps practices.
• Manage complex tasks with minimal guidance, ensuring infrastructure components' reliability, adaptability, and resilience.
• Deliver high-quality products by understanding and addressing DevOps needs related to AWS and Azure.
• Collaborate closely with the DevOps team to implement tools, pipelines, and processes for continuous integration and delivery.
• Ensure the reliability, adaptability, and resilience of infrastructure components, including servers, databases, hosted services, load balancers.
• Participate in incident escalation and resolution, improving systems to guarantee service availability.
• Contribute to internal peer learning, sharing expertise in technologies.
• Lead onboarding for new DevOps team members and establish schedules and priorities.
• Play a role in HR recruitment to attract top DevOps talent.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of DevOps team management experience.
• At least 3 years managing Linux environments (Red Hat, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu).
• Minimum 2 years in service-oriented architectures, SDLC, and CI/CD practices.
• Proficiency in Git, Terraform, Ansible.
• Knowledge of cloud and container concepts.
• Problem-solving skills, collaborative spirit, adaptability.
• Fluent in English; French is an asset.
• Determination, quick learning, high work ethic, leadership, solutions-oriented, team spirit, adaptability.

Benefits

• Remote or hybrid work environment based in Montreal.
• Flexible schedules.
• Comprehensive benefits including paid education and physical activity programs.
• Vacation and personal days.

Additional Information

• The role reports to the Head of Engineering.
• The company is in the logistics technology sector, based in Montreal.
• The position involves leadership, technical expertise, and talent acquisition.