DevOps Coordinator

Summary

Organization: Plan International Canada

Reports To: Senior Manager – Infrastructure and Cybersecurity

Location: Toronto (Hybrid - Eglinton & Mount Pleasant)

Status: Current, Permanent, Full-Time

Contact Level: B

What can you expect from joining a leading organization in the global movement to advance children’s rights and equality for girls?

Plan International Canada is the first non-profit organization to ever be inducted into Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures Hall of Fame by Waterstone Human Capital. Here’s why: together, we have created a climate of trust and inclusivity – where diversity in people, ideas and approaches is not only respected, it’s encouraged.

We remain agile amid an ever-changing global landscape. Though we continue to evolve, our mission and strategic ambition will not change – and our work has never been so imperative. We will never stop believing in the multiplying power of girls and that every child deserves that right to learn, lead, decide and thrive. Our future success will be founded upon Plan International Canada’s 80+ year history of focusing on our mission, our core values, responding to challenges and seizing opportunities with purpose, relevance and impact.

The Position

We are seeking a highly organized and proactive DevOps Coordinator to support and guide the flow of work from planning through production. In this role, you will help teams deliver high‑quality, secure, and reliable software by coordinating activities across Jira, GitHub Enterprise, and Azure DevOps. You will play a key role in ensuring disciplined CI/CD practices, effective governance, and strong cross‑team communication.

This position is ideal for someone who thrives in fast‑moving technical environments and enjoys enabling teams through structured processes, clear communication, and continuous improvement.

What success looks like?

• Administer Jira projects/boards, workflows, and issue types for Dev, QA, and Ops streams.
• Enforce ticket readiness, standard developer templates (including rollback plans and dependency flags), and peer review checkpoints.
• Maintain traceability from Jira issues to commits, PRs, builds, and deployments.
• Champion peer reviewed merges and standardized PR templates aligned to Jira artifacts.
• Monitor CI/CD pipelines (build, test, scan, deploy) including environment gates and approvals. Ensure all current environments are documented (DEV, UAT, PROD)
• Maintain/ create Github Repo’s, manage repo permissions, branching and merging strategies.
• Maintain documentation for release management process, release notes and go/no-go process; facilitate readiness reviews and cross team signoffs.
• Drive pre-deployment checks, comms, and post deployment verifications; ensure rollback plans are documented and rehearsed.
• Participate in standups/scrum carryover and dependency management across squads, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Publish dashboards and release health metrics; communicate risks, blockers, and mitigations.

As Our Ideal Candidate You Will Have

• Experience working with a diverse set of stakeholders across diverse teams.
• Proficiency with a wide range of Microsoft products.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience in DevOps/Release coordination across Jira, GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps.
• Hands on experience with CI/CD, branching strategies, PR workflows, and protected branches.
• Familiarity with platform like Salesforce, Sitecore and their release lifecycle.
• Understanding of infrastructure as‑ ‑code, serverless deployment architecture.
• Security mindset: Secrets management, RBAC, audit readiness; experience operationalizing SOPs
• Nice to have: certification in Atlassian (Jira Administration), GitHub Administration, ITIL

How To Apply

To express interest in this exciting opportunity, please apply by February 9, 2026.

Plan International Canada is a hybrid workplace. You will work from the office and from home.

The salary range for this position is anticipated to be between $56,000 and $71,000. We comprehensively evaluate a variety of factors to determine fair compensation, including experience, specific job-related skills, and relevant educational or professional training. Additionally, we ensure that compensation is equitable across our team and aligns with current market trends. This role also qualifies for an extensive benefits package and generous paid time off.

Plan International Canada hires based on merit and is strongly committed to equity and diversity within its community and to providing an inclusive workplace. Plan International Canada especially welcomes applications from Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, women, persons of all sexual orientations and genders, and others with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities.

If you have a disability that may affect your ability to perform in a role in which you are interested, we will be happy to discuss with you what adjustments or arrangements we can make to accommodate your needs. If your disability is likely to affect you adversely within the application process itself, please let us know (as soon as you feel comfortable to do so) by emailing [email protected] so that we can consider any adjustments to the process that will allow you to be considered fairly for the role.

Consistent with our Safeguarding Children and Young People Policy, the successful candidate must receive clearance by a police background check, including the vulnerable sector screen.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Canada for the duration of the work term. Proof of eligibility will be required.