Overview The Application Release Engineer is a senior-level role responsible for advancing automation-first, design-driven approaches to software delivery, deployment, and release management. This position provides technical leadership to improve the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of enterprise systems within a large financial services environment. The role partners closely with delivery teams to drive best practices across the end-to-end application deployment pipeline, ensuring high availability, faster time-to-market, and operational excellence.

Location Toronto, ON — Hybrid (2 days onsite per week)

Contract Details

Position Type: Contract

Contract Duration: 6 months (Extension Possible)

Start: As Soon As Possible

Schedule: Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Pay Rate: C$100 - C$120 per hour

Conversion to Perm: Yes (Potential Convert to Perm)

Key Responsibilities

Provide senior-level direction to improve system design, scalability, reliability, and efficiency

Advance automation-first practices across software delivery and release processes

Execute and lead deployments and releases across multiple regions and environments

Drive automation across:

Source code management

Build and packaging

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD tooling and workflows

Build and maintain testing ecosystems to ensure high availability for development and QA teams

Maintain and enhance DevOps tooling and processes owned by the segment team

Solve complex technical problems related to deployments and release events





Communicate and enforce best practices for end-to-end software delivery

Collaborate across engineering, operations, and platform teams using data and analytics to guide decisions

Required Skills & Qualifications

10+ years of overall professional experience

Post-secondary degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline

Robust experience with Microsoft Azure and VMware Cloud

Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

CI/CD and orchestration experience with GitHub Actions and/or Jenkins

Exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving skills

Strong customer-focused mindset with attention to anticipating needs

High attention to detail and accuracy

Preferred

Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Proficiency with SaltStack

Experience with container technologies, including Kubernetes

About the Company A Top 10 bank in Canada and North America, offering comprehensive retail, commercial, wealth management, and wholesale banking services. The organization emphasizes innovation, automation, and engineering excellence to support clients in a rapidly evolving financial landscape.

About GTT GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company based in Alaska. We value diverse and inclusive workplaces and partner with Fortune 500 organizations across banking, insurance, financial services, technology, life sciences, utilities, and retail throughout the U.S. and Canada.

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