Member-owned credit union serving Southern Ontario communities
FirstOntario is a Hamilton-based, member-owned credit union running Temenos core banking alongside a multi-cloud footprint (AWS, Azure, GCP) managed with Terraform, Ansible and Helm, with Azure flagged as an active adoption. Hiring is accelerating and sales-led, focused on retaining third-party-generated business, while security and continuity work points to a tightening control posture aligned to ISO 27001 and NIST.
FirstOntario Credit Union is a cooperative financial institution founded in 1939 and headquartered in Hamilton, Ontario. It offers everyday banking, borrowing and investment products to members, who share in its profits and governance. The credit union reports over 115,000 members served through 29 locations across 14 communities in the Hamilton, Halton, Niagara, Haldimand/Norfolk and Oxford regions. It employs 201–500 people and hires exclusively in Canada.
FirstOntario runs Temenos for core banking, alongside SugarCRM, Laserfiche for document management, ServiceNow for IT service management, and ADP and Dayforce for HR and payroll.
Yes, hiring is accelerating in Canada, led by sales and finance roles, with additional openings in operations, engineering, HR and security across junior through VP levels.
FirstOntario uses AWS, Azure and GCP, provisioned with Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm and Ansible, and is actively expanding its Azure adoption alongside Entra and Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
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