{"id":118370,"url":"https://alion.io/job/manulife-devops-specialist","title":"DevOps Specialist","company":{"id":6650,"name":"Manulife","domain":"manulife.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/manulife","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":97,"open_postings":56,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.304,"repost_share":0.018,"time_to_fill_p50_days":21,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Toronto, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":".NET","optional":false},{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure AKS","optional":false},{"name":"Bash","optional":false},{"name":"C#","optional":false},{"name":"Chef","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Db2","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"GitOps","optional":false},{"name":"Helm","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":false},{"name":"JFrog Artifactory","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"MS SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Oracle","optional":false},{"name":"Pipeline as Code","optional":false},{"name":"PowerShell","optional":false},{"name":"Puppet","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Snyk","optional":false},{"name":"SonarQube","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"TeamCity","optional":false},{"name":"Windows","optional":false},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":true},{"name":"ITIL","optional":true},{"name":"Jira","optional":true},{"name":"Node JS","optional":true},{"name":"Power Apps","optional":true},{"name":"ServiceNow","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-24T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-28","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T08:41:35Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":38,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":1,"flags":[],"days_open":38},"description":"Manulife is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make decisions easier and lives better. Join us in shaping a better future and help deliver innovative, secure, and reliable technology solutions that make a meaningful impact for our customers, colleagues, and communities.\nWe are seeking a collaborative DevOps professional who is passionate about automation, continuous improvement, cloud technologies, and building secure, scalable solutions. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in Agile environments, partnering with technical and business stakeholders, and driving operational excellence through modern DevOps practices.\nPosition Responsibilities:\nContinuously evaluate and enhance DevOps practices, processes, and tools to improve efficiency, reliability, and operational effectiveness.\nAutomate manual and repetitive tasks using infrastructure and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.\nImplement, manage, and support containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.\nManage and optimize cloud infrastructure and services while ensuring scalability, reliability, performance, and security.\nCreate, maintain, and improve technical documentation for configurations, processes, procedures, and operational standards.\nImplement and promote security best practices across development, deployment, and operational activities.\nApply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to automate provisioning, configuration, and environment management.\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams to support continuous integration, continuous delivery, and operational excellence.\nRequired Qualifications:\n5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure Engineering, or a related discipline.\nExperience designing, enhancing, and supporting CI/CD release pipelines.\nHands-on experience with TeamCity, including API integrations and pipeline-as-code capabilities.\nExperience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes (AKS), Helm, and GitOps practices.\nExperience with source control and version management platforms such as GitHub.\nExperience with Jenkins and GitHub Actions.\nExperience deploying and supporting cloud infrastructure and services, preferably within Microsoft Azure environments.\nExperience administering and supporting Linux, Unix, and Windows operating systems.\nExperience working within Agile development environments and cross-functional teams.\nProficiency in scripting and automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar technologies.\nExperience with artifact management tools such as Artifactory.\nExperience working with database technologies, including Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI), Oracle, and DB2.\nExperience with application security, vulnerability management, and code quality tools such as Snyk, Contrast, and SonarQube.\nUnderstanding of modern programming languages and frameworks such as C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, and .NET.\nDemonstrated commitment to automation, optimization, and continuous improvement.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nDevelopment experience using Java, C#, or Node.js.\nExperience with tools such as Jira, ServiceNow, and Power Apps.\nMicrosoft Azure certifications, such as Azure Fundamentals or Azure DevOps Engineer.\nDevOps and/or DevSecOps certifications.\nITIL certification.\nWhen you join our team:\nWe’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want. \nWe’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words. \nAs part of our distributed team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.\nThe role being advertised is an existing vacancy.\nAbout Manulife and John Hancock\nManulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.\nManulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer\nAt Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.\nIt is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact .\nReferenced Salary Location\nToronto, OntarioWorking Arrangement\nHybridSalary range is expected to be between\n$73,725.00 CAD - $122,875.00 CADEmployees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact  for the salary range for your location.\nManulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact  for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.\nWe use data and analytics technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), and automated processing tools, to analyze and process the information you provide to us or third parties in the application process. 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