Principal DevOps Engineer

We are seeking an accomplished Principal DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering expertise across enterprise CI/CD and deployment automation initiatives.

This role is ideal for a senior DevOps professional who can operate at both the architectural and implementation levels, solving complex deployment challenges while improving the reliability, scalability, security, and efficiency of enterprise delivery platforms.

This is a 6-month contract opportunity with the potential for extension.

The successful candidate will work in a hybrid environment and is expected to be in our Toronto office three days per week.

What Will You Do?

• Serve as a senior technical contributor for the design, development, and evolution of the Helios CI/CD pipeline supporting both VM and Mainframe platforms.
• Drive the modernization of enterprise deployment automation by transitioning CI/CD deployment capabilities from IBM UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) to Octopus Deploy.
• Assess existing UCD workflows, deployment configurations, and Groovy scripts to determine the most effective migration and modernization approach.
• Re-engineer legacy deployment automation into scalable and maintainable Octopus Deploy processes and automation frameworks.
• Design, develop, test, and optimize Octopus Deploy automation using C# and established enterprise DevOps engineering practices.
• Establish robust validation and testing approaches for migrated pipelines to ensure reliability, security, and successful production execution.
• Identify opportunities during the migration to eliminate technical debt, simplify deployment workflows, improve maintainability, and standardize automation.
• Provide technical direction and engineering expertise across complex deployment and release-management initiatives.
• Partner with application development, infrastructure, platform engineering, and release-management teams to ensure deployment solutions are production-ready.
• Diagnose and resolve complex CI/CD , automation, deployment, and release issues across distributed and Mainframe environments.
• Contribute to platform architecture, governance, security, RBAC, reliability, and operational standards for enterprise CI/CD capabilities.
• Promote engineering best practices around Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code, automation, deployment orchestration, and release management.