DevOps Engineer

About The Company BMO Financial Group is a leading North American financial institution committed to delivering innovative banking solutions and exceptional customer service. With a rich history spanning over two centuries, BMO has established a strong reputation for stability, integrity, and community engagement. The organization values diversity, inclusion, and continuous growth, fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make meaningful contributions. BMO's core mission is to help customers, communities, and employees achieve their aspirations by providing tailored financial products and services that meet their evolving needs. About The Role The Senior Lead DevOps Engineer at BMO Financial Group plays a pivotal role in shaping and executing the organization’s DevOps strategy. This leadership position involves designing, implementing, and optimizing DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure to enhance the efficiency, security, and reliability of software delivery. The role requires leading a team of talented engineers, fostering a culture of automation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will possess a deep technical expertise combined with strategic vision, enabling BMO to stay at the forefront of technological innovation in the financial sector. Qualifications The successful candidate will have over 10 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, demonstrating a strong background in cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure. Proficiency in CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps or AWS CDK is essential. Candidates should have extensive hands-on experience with scripting languages such as Python or Bash, and a deep understanding of Linux/Unix systems and networking. Expertise in containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes is required. Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or Azure DevOps Engineer are highly preferred. The role also demands excellent leadership skills, strategic thinking, and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively across teams. Responsibilities The Senior Lead DevOps Engineer will be responsible for defining and leading the organization’s DevOps strategy, including establishing best practices and roadmaps that align with business objectives. Mentoring and managing a team of DevOps engineers, promoting technical excellence and innovation, is a key aspect of this role. Collaborating with engineering, QA, security, and product teams to streamline delivery processes and foster a DevOps culture emphasizing automation, scalability, and reliability will be central to daily operations. The role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous integration and deployment, automating build, test, and deployment processes to enhance speed and consistency. Integrating security practices into pipelines (DevSecOps) and standardizing deployment strategies such as blue-green, canary releases, and rolling deployments are critical responsibilities. Managing cloud infrastructure across platforms like AWS and Azure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery, is essential. The engineer will optimize cloud costs and resource utilization, lead containerization efforts using Docker, and oversee container orchestration with Kubernetes or similar platforms, ensuring efficient deployment, scaling, and monitoring of microservices. Implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions, driving Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, and troubleshooting production issues are integral to maintaining system health. Ensuring security and compliance through secure DevOps practices, vulnerability assessments, and security scanning tools will also be part of the role. Benefits BMO Financial Group offers a comprehensive total compensation package, including competitive salary ranges from $94,600 to $176,000, tailored based on experience, location, and qualifications. The organization provides health insurance, retirement savings plans, tuition reimbursement, and life and accident insurance. Employees also benefit from performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, and various recognition programs. BMO emphasizes work-life balance and professional development, supporting employees through in-depth training, coaching, and leadership opportunities. The company fosters an inclusive environment that values diversity and promotes continuous learning, ensuring employees have the tools and resources needed to succeed and grow within the organization. Equal Opportunity BMO Financial Group is committed to creating an inclusive, equitable, and accessible workplace for all employees. The organization values diversity and believes that a variety of perspectives enhances innovation and performance. BMO provides accommodations upon request for candidates participating in the recruitment process, ensuring equal opportunity regardless of background, gender, race, or ability. The company upholds a policy of non-discrimination and actively seeks to foster a workplace culture where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute to their fullest potential.