DevOps Project Manager

Job Title: DevOps Project Manager
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Toronto, ON
Work Model: Onsite

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Project Manager to lead the end-to-end planning and delivery of complex DevOps and technology initiatives. The ideal candidate will have strong project management experience combined with a practical understanding of DevOps, software delivery, CI/CD pipelines, security controls, and enterprise technology environments.

The successful candidate will coordinate multiple squads and cross-functional teams, manage delivery plans and dependencies, drive governance, and ensure projects are delivered on schedule with clear ownership, risk management, and operational readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning and delivery of complex DevOps initiatives from mobilization through implementation, rollout, stabilization, and handoff.
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans covering milestones, dependencies, environments, testing, approvals, communications, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate delivery across DevOps, infrastructure, cloud, security, ServiceNow, application, data, platform, QA, and support teams.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Technical Leads, Architects, Engineers, Quality Engineers, security teams, and business stakeholders.
• Establish project governance, meeting cadence, decision paths, delivery controls, and escalation mechanisms.
• Manage project scope, schedule, resources, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and changes.
• Drive action closure and proactively resolve delivery gaps, resource constraints, environment or access blockers, and integration dependencies.
• Coordinate test planning, UAT, production-readiness reviews, implementation activities, and post-implementation validation.
• Prepare executive-level status reports covering progress, milestones, forecasts, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and recovery actions.
• Coordinate stakeholder communications, demonstrations, readiness activities, support planning, and adoption activities.
• Ensure project deliverables, decisions, processes, and operational ownership are properly documented and transitioned.
• Apply lessons learned and continuous-improvement practices to improve delivery predictability and reduce operational risks.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong project management experience delivering complex technology initiatives across multiple squads and enterprise teams.
• Demonstrated experience with DevOps, software delivery, CI/CD, developer platforms, security controls, source-code management, or engineering enablement initiatives.
• Practical understanding of the software delivery lifecycle, including source repositories, build pipelines, security scanning, deployment orchestration, approvals, environments, and production support.
• Strong experience creating integrated project plans, managing critical paths, dependencies, milestones, and cross-team deliverables.
• Excellent risk, issue, dependency, change, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to communicate technical delivery details and business impacts clearly to senior leadership.
• Strong facilitation, written communication, executive reporting, organization, and follow-through skills.
• Experience working in matrixed environments with teams that may not report directly to the Project Manager.
• Self-directed, pragmatic, and outcome-focused with the ability to bring structure to ambiguous or evolving initiatives.

Technical / DevOps Experience

• Strong understanding of standard DevOps tools, practices, and enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with tools such as Bitbucket, GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Checkmarx One, Snyk, Kosli, Grafana, and Tableau.
• Experience coordinating security-control implementation, vulnerability management, compliance evidence, exception processes, release gating, and production-readiness activities.
• Experience with application inventories, repository metadata, data reconciliation, database updates, dashboards, ETL processes, and data-quality remediation.
• Experience coordinating releases across Development, Stage, and Production environments.
• Experience with technical testing, business validation, implementation, and post-implementation verification.
• Experience with Jira and/or Planview AgilePlace.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management certification or formal Agile delivery training is an asset.
• Experience managing enterprise DevOps transformation or engineering-enablement initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies and enterprise governance practices.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple stakeholders, priorities, and complex technical dependencies simultaneously.