Release Management Coordinator

Venture outside the ordinary - TMX Careers

The TMX group of companies includes leading global exchanges such as the Toronto Stock Exchange, Montreal Exchange, and numerous innovative organizations enhancing capital markets.  United as a global team, we're connecting cross-functionally, traversing industries and geographies, moving opportunity into action, advancing global economic growth, and propelling progress. Through a rich exchange of ideas, meaningful collaboration, and a nimble operating model, we're powering some of the nation's most critical systems, fueling capital formation and innovation, bringing increased opportunity to business visionaries, product ingenuity to consumers, and career exploration to our team.

Ready to be part of the action?

This role is hybrid days/week in the office) - based in Toronto, ON.

Working schedule: Rotational on-call support outside of regular business hours

The Release Management Coordinator is responsible for supporting activities for the building, deployment and maintenance of application software releases through a hierarchy of non-production and production environments; work with other GTS teams ensuring software products deployed to multi-platform production environments meet quality standards and performance objectives. The Release Management Coordinator is responsible for supporting activities for the building, deployment and maintaining of application software releases

This role reports to Senior Manager, Clearing Technology Services.

Key Accountabilities 

• Support the release management processes to ensure the deployment of major, minor, emergency and off-cycle releases meet quality standards and performance objectives.

• Support control processes that protect the integrity of secured source control repositories in multi-platform environments.

• Adhere to automated code control processes that provide version management and source code standardization in multi-platform environments.

• Adhere to TMX standard Incident, Problem and change manage processes

• Support automated code deployment processes across a complex, multi-platform hierarchy of non-production and production environments. After hours and weekends required.

• Promote the Release Management methodology across IT

• Identify and recommend solutions to processes that execute outside of Release Management practices.

• Identify and promote opportunities to standardize non-production and production environments.

• With other Infrastructure teams, proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability

• Help maintain and enforce systems standards

• Maintain procedural and technical documentation

Must haves

• University degree in Computer Science, or related discipline.

• 5+ years of relevant experience

• Knowledge of third-party software products Ansible Tower, Jira, Confluence, Slack, GitLab, Service Now, and Control-M scheduler used to provide and support automated code management.  As well as enterprise-wide platforms Cloud Computing, Linux, and UNIX

• Thorough knowledge of software development and release management processes 

• Experience in supporting and administering third party software products

Nice to haves

• Previous experience in the Clearing Depository or Financial industry an asset

• Experience with different platforms AWS Cloud and  Distributed systems environments would be an asset.

• Understanding of Job scheduler & orchestration, and alerting tools would be an asset.

In the market for…

Excitement - Explore emerging technology and innovation, as well as ventures and digital finance that shape the future of global markets Experience the movement of the market while grounded in the stability of close to 200 years of success.

Connection - With site hubs in some of the world's most multicultural cities, we leverage our size and structure to create rich connections and belonging while experiencing powerful global impact through our work.

Impact - More than a platform, we use our talents to power mission-critical systems that drive global economic advancement, innovation, and growth. As well, our employee-led Team Impact spreads social good via our giving strategy.

Wellness - From empathetic leadership to a culture of flexibility and balance, we believe wellness at work creates the maximum yield and a stronger "we". Plus, with a cloud-first and hybrid workstyle, as well as generous time-off and leaves, we support a life well lived 

Growth - From a growth mindset in our work, to expansion in our business, TMX is home to action-takers energized by the achievement of ambitious growth.

Ready to enrich your career with impactful work, leaders who truly care, and the flexibility and programs to help you thrive as part of #TeamTMX ? Apply now.

Please note that our company is not currently sponsoring work permit applications and the applicant must be authorized to work in the country where this position is located. 

TMX is committed to creating and sustaining a collegial work environment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect and one which reflects the diversity of the community in which we operate. We provide accommodations for applicants and employees who require it.