Director of Software Engineering (Director DevOps)

Company: Demand Science Canada Inc.

Business Information: We are Demand Science, a global company which never stops innovating in our mission to provide the healthiest and most predictive global B2B data and intelligence for our customers. Our clients include sales and marketing professionals at global companies. Excellent execution is in our DNA. We provide innovative AI-analytics merged with enriched data to identify your next in-market prospects and customers at scale.

Business address: 100 King Street West, 1 First Canadian Place, Suite 6200, Toronto ON M5X 1B8

Work location: Remote position and various locations throughout Toronto to meet with stakeholders

Type of Employment: Full Time – Permanent

Estimated Start Date: As soon as possible

Job Description:

Recruit staff identifying staffing needs, conducting interviews, assessing candidates and making hiring decisions

Review operational reports to assess compliance with software and hardware requirements

Supervise staff and create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture and clear strategy to include establishing goals with deadlines and monitoring performance

Train staff leadership through coaching, mentoring, performance development and performance management

Conduct performance reviews to foster effective communication, identify motivators, enhance technical skills and understand development opportunities

Assign, co-ordinate and review projects and programs

Plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate daily operations

Manage incidents

Manage the DevOps team that performs release deployments, application performance monitoring, and maintenance of cloud environments

Take ownership of overall health and performance of applications and services while ensuring SLAs are met

Establish proactive monitoring, alerting, and 24x7 on-call DevOps support

Define long-term DevOps roadmaps to deliver cloud operations excellence

Direct the resolution of highly complex or unusual business problems using advanced analytical thought and judgment

Lead cost optimization strategies to drive cloud spending and cost reduction while maximizing business value

Provide technical leadership around cloud operations and governance

Define, manage, and track KPIs and quality metrics across infrastructure projects

Negotiate and influence opinions of others by bringing recommendations for change or innovation through broad industry and commercial awareness of latest strategies, tools, and technologies

Development and implementation of DevOps strategy to meet business needs and product roadmap

Create, monitor and report on DevOps budget

Development and responsibility for business continuity

Attend regular meetings with internal stakeholders and the product team to discuss collaboration on product development and enhancements, problem-solving sessions, review of errors to result in standardized documentation, compliance and regulations training, cross-functional team meetings, and business strategy planning.

Requirements

- Education: Completion of secondary education is required

- A bachelor's degree in computer science, business administration, commerce or engineering or a related field is an asset.

- Experience: Over 5 years of overall technical experience with software engineering, operations, security, and governance; AWS or equivalent cloud environment, implementing enterprise-wide solution is required.

- Experience in leading or managing global technical teams is required.

- In-depth understanding of industry standards, best practices and emerging technologies is required.

- Ability to supervise between 1 to 5 people directly and up to 49 people indirectly

-Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities: Fast-paced environment, Work under pressure, Tight deadlines, Attention to detail, Large workload, Excellent problem-solving skills.

-Personal suitability: Efficient interpersonal skills, Excellent written and oral communication, Flexibility, Initiative, Judgement, Organized, Reliability, Team player, Values and ethics, Proactive, Leadership skills, Active listening skills

-Language: English is required

- Computer and technology knowledge:

Demonstrated skill in building IaC (Infrastructure as Code) in Terraform, Cloudformation, and Serverless,

Expert knowledge in DevOps Lifecycle, CICD, AWS Well-Architected Framework, and Cloud Governance.

Exceptional strengths using AWS, Jenkins, SonarQube, and other CICD tools and technologies (git branching strategy, Ansible, Terraform, Cloudformation, Selenium).

Demonstrated skill in CloudOps (network, security, monitoring, infrastructure, cost optimization).

Skilled in Microsoft Office products and Instant Messaging platforms.

Salary: $79.33 hourly, 40 hours per week

Benefits: Bonus, Equipment for remote work, Workshare meeting room is rented by the company when attending meetings.

Important Information. The regular work schedule is Monday to Friday, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Overtime may be required depending on the business needs.

Apply by e-mail to: recruit@demandscience.com

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