Build Master

**Build Master**:
Job ID : 5940
Category : Technology Solutions
Brand : Definity
Regular/Temporary : Regular
Fulltime/Parttime : Full Time
Location : Kitchener, Canada

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Definity includes some of Canada’s most long-standing and innovative insurance brands, including Economical Insurance, Sonnet Insurance, Family Insurance Solutions, and Petline Insurance. With strong roots that date back to 1871, we’ve grown to become a digital leader in the insurance industry. We’re proud to help our clients and communities adapt and thrive in a world of constant change.

Our promise to you: It’s better here. Why? Because we CARE, and we provide an employee experience that’s collaborative, ambitious, rewarding, and empowering.

Our ambition is to be one of Canada’s leading and most innovative P&C insurers. Come be a part of our journey, and love what you do.

Definity offers a flexible, hybrid work experience where employees work from the office and virtually depending on the type of work they are doing and who they are working with. Leader’s partner with their teams to find the right balance of on-site and remote work that best meets the needs of their teams, colleagues, brokers and customers, while ensuring collaboration, teamwork and accountability for goals.

The Dev Ops Manager a professional discipline that recommends, provides and verifies all processes in a continuous effort to control Features related to Programs and ensure integrity and quality of all product under development.

The BM focuses on these key principles:

- Version Control amongst all delivery teams
- Technical Change Management amongst all delivery teams
- Release engineering during Implementations and Deployments amongst all delivery teams
- Accountable for all audit materials related to Releases approved for Deployment

**What can you expect in this role?**

The Devops Manager is responsible for all management and planning including:

- Version control mechanisms for all software and hardware (information technology) being delivered by the program (IT focus, does not include version control for any other type of program deliverable such as process models, procedures, checklists, policies, non-IT equipment or furniture, etc.)
- Change and release management - represents the team at all IT change and release management meetings, produces all change and release management document submissions, etc. (IT focus, does not include organizational change management such as program communications, training, or organizational change resistance management)
- Creating and submitting all change and release records required by the IT change and release management processes and the IT Build management processes of the organization
- Software and hardware build and integration mechanisms for all information technology being delivered by the program, program-level administration of tools that support this
- Release planning and release/deployment mechanisms for all information technology being delivered by the program, program-level administration of tools that support this
- Collecting all DevOps (software engineering) and TechOps (IT operations) metrics for the team, and working with the Scrum Masters who collect all agile metrics, to report the combined team metrics
- Ensuring the necessary tools and processes are in place to promote and advance the practice of continuous build and the frequency of implementation per team
- Establishment and communication of guidelines for branching, merging and readiness for implementation activities across all Program teams
- Resolution of all conflicts and contradictions which arise from the deployment process
- Participation and assistance with the scheduled Implementation Order Plan (meeting) for teams that require their assistance and expertise
- Full deployment reviews and reports with leadership
- Relevant tools assessment and replacement/upgrade recommendations based on current and trending Best Practices
- SBM best practice including branching, flow, structure and templating across the enterprise
- Lead the culture of Build best practice across the entire SDLC lifecyle at the enterprise level through coaching, communication and documentation
- Collaborate with Release Management team to govern release readiness criteria and ensure all changes meet criteria prior to deployment
- Collaborate with developers to properly resolve merge conflicts and deployment errors
- Develop and maintain documentation and diagrams with respect to overall Build Management activities across multiple domains

**What do you bring to the role?**
- Must have least 5 years of Build/Release Management experience in Dev Ops environment
- Highly flexible and able to quickly adapt to changing priorities
- Experience with the following tools: Docker, Jenkins, ELK, Artifactory, Ansible, Vault, Consul, Kubernetes, Terraform, Inspec, JIRA, Confluence, nginx, HA Pro