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Come work for a company that’s committed to the success of each and every employee. A place where innovators and collaborators come together and build on each other’s talents. Where diversity is welcomed and celebrated. FCT provides industry-leading title insurance, default solutions and other real estate related products and services to legal, lending, valuation and real estate professionals across Canada. With FCT, you will have the opportunity to build a meaningful career. Join us as we continue to do exciting work and make a big impact on our colleagues, customers and communities.

We are continually searching for great talent; individuals who possess a deep commitment to the customers and markets we serve. If you would like to join a company that is committed to the success of each employee and offers challenge, purpose and the opportunity to grow both personally and professionally in a team-oriented environment, you'll enjoy a career with us! We understand that fostering a diverse and inclusive environment is critical for the success of our business, and we actively work towards it every day. We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Solution Architect to lead the design, automation, deployment, and operational excellence of modern enterprise platforms and software solutions. This role bridges software architecture, cloud infrastructure, DevOps engineering, and AI-enabled and human in the loop operational practices to ensure scalable, secure, and resilient delivery pipelines and production environments. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise and operational experience with mission critical, high availability application. The candidate must embrace an AI-first mindset — leveraging AI-assisted development, automation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle. You will work closely with engineering, infrastructure, security, QA, and business stakeholders to architect and implement modern DevOps solutions that accelerate software delivery while improving reliability, observability, and operational efficiency. You will also proactively monitor the platform, triage application and system alerts, and coordinate incident response to ensure the stability and availability of critical services.

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure and DevOps architectures.
• Actively monitor the platform across environments and respond to any alerts using automation or manual procedures.
• Develop SOPs to handle common alerting scenarios in Production for other support teams to use after hours.
• Implement and evolve enterprise DevOps standards, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), automation frameworks, and operational best practices.
• Design and implement enterprise monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and AI-enhanced operational intelligence solutions across infrastructure and applications.
• Establish operational health metrics, SLIs/SLOs, dashboards, and proactive monitoring strategies to ensure production reliability, performance, scalability, and rapid incident response.
• Collaborate with software development teams to align application architecture, deployment processes, infrastructure, security, and operational requirements throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Promote an AI-first engineering culture by leveraging AI-assisted automation, monitoring, diagnostics, security analysis, troubleshooting, and operational optimization capabilities.
• Ensure production readiness through resiliency testing, disaster recovery planning, security compliance, vulnerability management, secrets management, and operational automation.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives through rapid prototyping, evaluation of emerging technologies, root cause analysis, and implementation of AI-powered solutions that improve platform reliability, deployment efficiency, and developer productivity.

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, systems architecture, or related technical roles, including 3+ years in a Solution Architect or senior technical leadership role.
• 5+ years of experience actively monitoring 7x24x365 mission critical applications and platforms ensuring 99.9% uptime.
• Deep understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, resiliency, and production operations.
• Strong expertise designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation using Azure DevOps and related technologies.
• Hands-on experience architecting and supporting enterprise cloud solutions within Microsoft Azure environments.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), automation frameworks, and container orchestration technologies including Kubernetes and Docker.
• Proven experience implementing enterprise monitoring, observability, logging, alerting, and operational support solutions for production systems and cloud platforms.
• Strong operational mindset with experience proactively monitoring application health, infrastructure performance, availability, certificate health, security compliance, and production reliability using automated and AI-assisted monitoring solutions.
• Experience managing enterprise certificate lifecycles including SSL/TLS certificate provisioning, renewal, automation, PKI, secrets management, and secure communication protocols.
• Strong software development and scripting experience with the ability to design, develop, and support automation tools, integrations, APIs, and operational platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly prototype, validate, and iterate on technical solutions while balancing speed, innovation, engineering discipline, and operational quality.
• Experience leveraging AI tools and AI-assisted practices for software delivery, infrastructure management, monitoring, troubleshooting, automation, and engineering productivity with an AI-first approach to problem solving.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills with the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and drive clarity through experimentation and continuous improvement.

Total Direct Compensation: 137,200 - 167,900 Any pay range is in $CAD. The stated pay range reflects the total expected compensation for this role (e.g., base pay plus any expected incentives or allowances, where applicable)

• Comprehensive benefits that include Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP) and Wellness Essentials Group retirement savings plan with company match
• Paid holidays and generous paid time off
• Hybrid work arrangements
• Paid volunteer opportunities and charitable donation matching
• Employee recognition programs that include referral incentives
• Potential for performance-based incentives
• The opportunity to participate in our stock purchase plan
• And more!
• *As per terms of the employment agreement

For over a decade, FCT has been certified by the Great Place to Work® Institute as one of Canada’s best workplaces. We have also been recognized as a Top 50 Best Workplace in Canada, Best Workplaces in Canada for Women and Best Workplaces in Canada with Most Trusted Executive teams. In addition, FCT is recognized as one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers. By joining us, you will not only be part of an award-winning organization, you will be part of a workforce that is engaged and empowered to succeed.

Thank you for considering FCT. We look forward to meeting you.

We may use AI assisted tools to help screen or assess applications; however, all hiring decisions include human review.

In accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, a request for accommodation will be accepted as part of FCT’s hiring process.

To avoid any delays in the recruitment process, if you require accommodation to apply, please provide your accommodation needs in advance.

You may also be required to submit adequate medical/other documentation to Human Resources to support your request for accommodation.

FCT is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to an active nondiscrimination program.

FCT is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to an active nondiscrimination program.

All recruitment, hiring, placements, transfers, promotions, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, and other terms and conditions of employment will be on the basis of the qualifications of the individual regardless of race, colour, place of origin, ethnic origin, citizenship, handicap (including mental and physical disability), sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, creed (religion), marital status, family status (being in a parent/child relationship), age, or any other basis prohibited by the applicable provincial or federal human rights legislation.

We are continually searching for great talent; individuals who possess a deep commitment to the customers and markets we serve.

If you would like to join a company that is committed to the success of each employee and offers challenge, purpose and the opportunity to grow both personally and professionally in a team-oriented environment, you'll enjoy a career with us!