DevOps Engineer

HOOPP (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan) • Toronto, ON

3d • CA$71,000 - CA$109,000

About The Position

The Pension Technology group at HOOPP (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan) is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join the Pension Core / Release and Configuration Management (RCM) team. In this role, you will own the reliability, automation, and continuous delivery of the Insight Pension Platform across 10+ environments, from development through production. You will drive and streamline release pipelines, maintain environment health, and partner with other teams and vendors to deliver high-quality, compliant deployments. The group values challenging the status quo, innovative solutions, team collaboration, and practicality.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or operations role.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience in IT operations/infrastructure.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to take end-to-end ownership of deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to automate repetitive processes and reduce manual operational work.
• Comfortable working in on-call rotations and responding to production incidents.
• Skilled in modern development tools and practices, such as git, CI/CD, and unit testing.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in one or more of the following areas: Azure DevOps, PowerShell, YAML, Python, IIS Administration, Azure Monitor or similar APM tools, Terraform, Windows Server administration (Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS), Certificate management (SSL/TLS, Key Vault), Networking fundamentals (routing, firewalls, load balancers), MS Dynamics CRM, SQL.

Nice To Haves

• Pension, financial services, or regulated environment experience is preferred.
• SQL Server Administration
• ServiceNow workflow knowledge
• Power BI
• MS SharePoint server
• Node.js
• Playwright, JMeter, Artillery or similar

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to enable reliable, repeatable software delivery across all environments.
• Maintain 10+ environments, including stability, data refreshes, and deployment readiness validation.
• Manage platform security posture — implementation and operation of gMSA service accounts, TDE encryption, SSL/TLS for IIS, Azure Key Vault and CyberArk integration, SOD pipeline enforcement, and audit and compliance remediation.
• Respond to and resolve production incidents as part of the on-call rotation.
• Champion automation and process improvement — identify manual bottlenecks and build pipeline-driven solutions to reduce manual operations work and improve delivery speed.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors on release coordination, deployment instructions, and joint infrastructure initiatives.
• Maintain proper documentation like environment matrices, incident playbooks, configuration steps, and deployment runbooks.
• Actively participate in Agile Scrum practices, including daily standups, backlog refinement, planning, and sprint retrospectives.
• Quickly learn, evaluate, and apply new concepts and technologies.

Benefits

• high-performance, people-focused culture
• commitment that equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental to our work environment and business success
• learning and development initiatives, including workshops, Speaker Series events and access to LinkedIn Learning
• membership in HOOPP’s world class defined benefit pension plan
• competitive, 100% company-paid extended health and dental benefits for permanent employees, including coverage supporting our team's diversity and mental health (e.g., gender affirmation, fertility and drug treatment, psychological support benefits of $2,500 per year, parental leave top-up, and a health spending account).
• optional post-retirement health and dental benefits subsidized at 50%
• yoga classes, meditation workshops, nutritional consultations, and wellness seminars
• the opportunity to make a difference and help take care of those who care for us, by providing a financially secure retirement for Ontario healthcare workers

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree