Director, Devops Enablement Jobs

What you'll be doing

You will be joining the Enterprise Technology team. As a member of CIBC’s team, the Director, DevOps Enablement will be leading a transformational change across the Enterprise to advance & mature our DevOps practices and capabilities. Bring in modern platforms with next generation AI driven capabilities to help accelerate delivery teams in a reliable and secure way. This role is a seasoned professional in leadership and coaching responsible for providing direct application delivery services and production support, undertaking new initiatives and base essential support applications. The role applies leadership skills and technical expertise to direct, manage and support large and critical applications on a day to day basis, leading internal change initiatives in alignment with ongoing technological changes. The Director, DevOps Enablement manages relationships with internal partners, maintaining continuous business communications with them to proactively assess any disruption in application functioning. In addition, the role leads the ongoing operations of applications and infrastructure in production, adhering to operational standards, vendor governance and business requirements. The role drives innovation across areas of responsibility, applying expert interpersonal, communications, and problem-solving skills.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (proportion of on-site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview.

How You'll Succeed

• People Leadership – Lead and coach a high performing group team of individuals. Direct, motivate, and develop your team, maximizing their contributions and professional growth. Share knowledge and collaborate to come up with effective solutions to problems.
• Moderate the Solution Creation Process: Lead, facilitate and coordinate the solution design, including ensuring alignment across multiple workstreams.
• Relationship Management – Work closely with project teams, executives, stakeholders and business partners to develop, and implement application programs. Impact and improve the business by advising application owners on the technology implementation possibilities and requirements.
• Delivery Focused – Work closely with internal partners to determine, negotiate and manage projects to the agreed upon timeline. Monitor finances identify opportunities for improvement and recommend appropriate solutions. Under your leadership implement projects in a timely fashion that are of high quality, low cost and on budget.

Who You Are

• You are a seasoned technical leader. You have 10 years of demonstrated experience in: technical architecture, solutions design, project management, and senior executive stakeholder management. Have experience with DevOps, CI/CD, automation, SDLC methodologies, regulated Enterprise environment, production change management processes, git SCM, GitHub (including Actions, Copilot, Codespaces, Projects), vendor management, JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• You embrace and champion change. You'll continuously evolve your thinking and the way you work in order to deliver your best.
• You are a bold and authentic leader. You're passionate about developing and coaching to bring out the best in people. You have led diverse, high performing teams. Want to impact change across the organization with excellent advocacy and collaboration skills.
• You're driven by collective success. You know that collaboration can transform a good idea into a great one. You understand the power of an inclusive team that enjoys working together to create a shared vision
• Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability.
• It's an asset if you have fulfilled leadership and advisory roles for major functions and/or initiatives with the responsibility, authority and discretion for decision-making. You also have a technical background, sufficient depth and breadth to be able to recognize and successfully exploit opportunities for effective development or usage of IT, and lead/guide fully experienced technical specialists.
• You have highly developed analytical and conceptual skills. You are adept at developing efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex problems.

What CIBC Offers

At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck.

• We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive compensation, incentive pay, banking benefits, a health benefits program, defined benefit pension plan, an employee share purchase plan and moment makers, our social, points-based recognition program
• We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like purpose day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development
• Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to build innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients

What You Need To Know

• CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation, please contact [email protected]
• You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit.