Senior DevOps Platform Administrator

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The Bank of Canada has a vision to be a leading central bank—dynamic, engaged and trusted—committed to a better Canada. No other employer in the country offers you the unique opportunity to work at the very center of Canada’s economy, in an organization with significant impact on the economic and financial well-being of all Canadians. You will be challenged, energized and motivated to excel in our environment. 

Building on the principles that have always guided us – excellence, integrity and respect – we strive to be forward-looking and innovative, to welcome people with diverse perspectives and talents, and to earn trust by living up to our commitments and by clearly explaining the intent of our policies and actions.  

With our defined-benefit pension plan, benefits, and high flexibility for work life balance - find out more about why we are annually ranked as one of Canada's top employers:  Working Here - Bank of Canada

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What you will do 

As a Senior DevOPS Platform administrator, you will be responsible for developing automation to strengthen the Bank’s RedHat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server platforms, both in our Bank data centers and in cloud. Using strong problem-solving skills, you will leverage automation to continuously deliver, improve and maintain the support of these platforms, strengthening security and operational resilience along the way. This will include automation of patching, performance monitoring and software upgrades, and more!

As you create or update automation code, you will collaborate, communicate and mentor others to pass on knowledge and gather feedback. Along with improving our platforms service offerings through automation, you will provide “day to day” operational support of all of the Bank’s operating system platforms, addressing operational incidents or project work as required. You will provide technical guidance, improvements and support along with assisting in the planning and coordination of tasks for the team. You will assist in performance monitoring, tuning and capacity planning of the operating system, and the range of products that support the development and testing of the production environments.

As new issues or needs arise with these platforms, you will take the lens of leveraging automation to continuously improve and avoiding the “one off” fixes to solve a problem. You will follow a software development life cycle to document and test new automation, including planning code releases into production. 
 

In addition, you will: 

• Provide extensive support for RHEL 9 and 10; monitor performance of systems and service agreements to ensure that ongoing service-delivery standards, service levels and IT policies are met 
• Analyze system needs; perform process re-engineering, operation management and research 

• Provide extensive support for Windows Server 2016+
• Monitor performance of systems and service agreements to ensure that ongoing service-delivery standards, service levels, IT policies and security standards are met.  
• Assess and plan system needs; perform process re-engineering, operation management and research.  
• Work autonomously, as well with other support teams, to analyze diagnostic information and/or resolve uncommon or complex problems in a multi-functional setting, assessing, and communicating technological issues that affect the functional or corporate level, and recommend solutions to colleagues or management.  
• Develop IT standard operating procedures for technology support and administration.  
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with internal and external counterparts (vendors, portfolios, stakeholders ) to support operational objectives.  
• Collaborate across ITS with various infrastructure teams, portfolio clients, product owners and others to plan and execute all operational and project delivery tasks. 

Note - The nature of this work will require additional paid on-call as well as paid overtime. These requirements are subject to change but typically involves an on-call rotation within the team of 1 week on-call every month (estimated) depending on capacity and team requirements.

What you need to succeed 
You are a proactive thinker, and you question the status quo with the ability to take ownership in helping resolve and improve technical challenges while communicating effectively and collaborating across diverse product and development teams. You also possess the ability to self manage, prioritize, meet deadlines, and perform multiple tasks concurrently with strong relationships skills. 
  
You bring strong technical leadership, teamwork, negotiation, and sound technical decision‑making capabilities required to support a 24/7/365, multi-tiered large-scale production environment. 
  
In addition, you have: 

• Proven experience as a developer, managing code through a software development life cycle from creation to deployment in production.
• Proven experience as an Operational Platform Administrator (or similar role) within a large-scale environment (1000+ servers) 
• Experience managing and deploying RHEL Linux and Windows servers in Azure public cloud 
• Experience with Red Hat Linux (including development of playbooks and automation through Ansible)
• Experience managing Redhat Satellite
• Experience using Ansible to automate configuration of RHEL and Windows Servers

Nice-to-have

• Ability to develop and support Infrastructure as Code (IAC) with tools such as PowerShell
• Experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline builds, asset (VM) builds/updates, Azure cloud build/configuration.
• Working knowledge of git and vscode 
• Familiar with leapp upgrading 

• Experience with OpenSCAP
• Knowledge of installation, configuration and tuning of Solaris (ver.11.4) servers using OVM 
• Experience with VMWare imaged deployments

• Experience with Azure ARC

Education and Experience
Your combined education and work experience demonstrate that you have the proficiencies and skills for the role.  We are ideally seeking candidates with a relevant degree/diploma and 7+ years of relevant experience for the Senior DevOps Platform Administrator role

Innovative Mindset

We value candidates who demonstrate adaptability, curiosity, and a willingness to learn new technologies, including AI and digital tools. We seek individuals who can think critically about data, question existing processes, and find ways to simplify our work while embracing change and new ways of doing things. 

Language requirement
The Bank’s work environment is conducive to the use of both of Canada’s official languages - English and French. Although the position language requirement is English or French essential, we do encourage everyone to improve their second language proficiency for future career growth and to contribute towards fostering a bilingual environment.

What you need to know

• Priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents
• Security level required: Be eligible to obtain Secret 
• Relocation assistance may be provided, if required
• Please save a copy of the job poster. Once the closing date has passed, it will no longer be available.

Hybrid Work Model

The Bank offers work arrangements that provide employees with flexibility, enable high-performing teams, and support an excellent workplace culture. Most employees can telework from home for a portion of each month as part of the Bank’s hybrid work model, and they are expected on site at the Bank location a minimum of 12 days per month to help build connections between colleagues. You must live in Canada, and within reasonable commuting distance of the office. 

What you can expect from us
This is a great opportunity to join a leading organization and be part of a high-performing team. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to meet your needs at every stage of your life and career. For more information on key benefits please visit A great deal to consider. 

• Salaries are based on qualifications and experience and typically range from $111,051 to $130,649 (job grade 17)
• The Bank offers an incentive for successfully meeting expectations at  7 to 10% of your base salary. The Bank offers additional performance pay (5%) for those who exceed expectations. Exceptional performers who far exceed expectations may be eligible for higher performance pay.
• Flexible and comprehensive benefits so you can choose the level of health, dental disability and life and/or accident insurance coverage that meets your needs
• Extra vacation days (up to five each year) that you can purchase to add to your vacation entitlement
• Indexed, defined-benefit pension

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.