Senior Solution Engineer

Synechron • Halifax, NS

15h • CA$90,000 - CA$95,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Solution Engineer with strong CI/CD, pipeline troubleshooting, and DevOps automation expertise. The ideal candidate is experienced with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes, and can confidently support migration and integration initiatives. Candidate are a problem solver, strong communicator, and trusted technical partner for application teams. We are looking for a Senior Solution Engineer to join our team and help deliver key initiatives Enable Capital Markets application teams to modernize and streamline their DevOps practices by migrating from legacy deployment approaches to scalable GitHub Actions-based CI/CD solutions. Support complex pipelines, troubleshoot integration issues, and improve automation across diverse application stacks. Drive reliable deployments, faster delivery, and stronger engineering standards in a high-impact enterprise environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or Diploma in IT with equivalent experience.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience creating and debugging pipeline stages.
• Strong understanding of build systems and project types (Maven, NPM, PyPi, .NET, MSBuild).
• Ability to write POM and Settings files from scratch.
• GitHub Actions workflows, execution, and runners.
• Experience with tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitOps, Artifactory, SonarQube, Terraform, UCD, Ansible.
• Jenkins pipelines (Declarative, Multibranch, Maven pipelines).
• Troubleshooting Jenkins failures and configuration issues.
• SonarQube configuration and usage.
• CD tools like Terraform, UCD.
• Ansible for configuration and deployment.
• Docker and containerization (Dockerfiles, commands).
• Kubernetes (clusters, namespaces, PV/PVC, Helm charts, kubectl deployments).
• Troubleshooting Kubernetes issues (pods, logs, nodes, events).

Nice To Haves

• CI/CD experience with NPM or NuGet.
• Groovy pipeline scripting.
• Strong communication skills.
• Agile tools (JIRA, ServiceNow).
• Scripting experience (Groovy, Shell, Python).

Responsibilities

• Support app teams to migrate from Jenkins, RLM or manual deployment to GitHub Actions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve DevOps-related issues.
• Create and debug CI/CD pipeline stages and workflows.
• Implement automation/configurations for successful integration.
• Write POM and Settings from scratch and work with various code bases.
• Set up GitHub Actions workflows, execution, and runners.

Benefits

• 15 days (3 weeks) of paid annual leave plus an additional 10 days of personal leave (floating days and sick days).
• A comprehensive insurance plan including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-term disability.
• Flexible hybrid policy.
• RRSP with employer’s contribution up to 4%.
• A higher education certification policy.
• On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses.
• Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups.
• Cutting edge projects at the world’s leading tier-one banks, financial institutions and insurance firms.
• A truly diverse, fun-loving and global work culture.

What This Job Offers

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