Job ID: 25-44258

Job Title: DevOps Specialist

Location: Edmonton, AB (Remote)

Duration: 12 Months (with Possible extension)

Client: Public Sector

Pay Rate: CAD 90-100/hr

Note: Occasional visit to Edmonton, AB Office required.

Mandatory Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in relevant field.
• Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field. (8 years with a Bachelor’s degree or 10 years with a Diploma)
• 5+ years’ Experience with Azure RedHat OpenShift
• 5+ years’ Experience with Cloud-Based and mobile application development
• 5+ years’ Experience with Disaster Recovery architectures, processes and tests
• 5+ years’ Experience with performance monitoring and troubleshooting
• 5+ years’ Experience with replicating environments (either manually or through Infrastructure as code)
• 5+ years’ Experience with scaling services through either horizontal or vertical scaling techniques
• 5+ years’ Experience with VM sizing based on needs and performance testing
• 3+ years’ Experience working as a DevOps Specialist on large-scale agile enterprise projects with 15 or more team members.
• 3+ years’ Experience working on the same enterprise Agile development teams
• 3+ years’ Experience incrementally transforming existing large-scale enterprise legacy systems into modern digital services across multiple releases.
• 3+ years’ Experience in the Government of Alberta environment or an environment of equivalent size and complexity.
• 3+ years’ Experience with leveraging Artificial Intelligent (AI) tools for DevOps development.
• 3+ years’ Experience working in large global or national organizations.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Create scripts, tools, and procedures for operations by designing and implementing automation for limited downtime deployment and maintenance.
• Lead operations of digital services in production by managing configuration and credentials for all related environments.
• Planning and managing maintenance activities; and managing database upgrades and migrations, backups, recoveries, etc.
• Provide operations support for implementation and enhancement of digital services by creating templates and patterns for application deployments and CI/CD pipelines; and creating scripts and tools to automate the establishment of environments for development and testing.
• Creating tools, scripts and processes that will enable application teams to have better observability of the application through monitoring and telemetry tools.
• Support delivery teams in adopting best practices by providing operations support for early and frequent integration testing, security scans, system testing, and performance and load testing; and providing operations support for early and frequent delivery to end-users in limited availability launches (Alphas and Betas).
• Sustain ongoing DevOps development and quality through continuous adopting best practices, improving processes and maintaining technical documentation.
• Follow Agile/Scrum methodologies and best practices to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the project with open communication in a high-performance team culture.

If this opportunity matches your experience and career goals, please share your most updated resume for consideration.

As a certified minority-owned business, Pride Global and its affiliates - including Russell Tobin, Pride Health, and Pride Now - are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.

Russell Tobin is a leading minority-owned professional and technical recruitment and staffing advisory organization. We are comprised of specialized practices focusing on a variety of skill sets and industries. Having a depth and breadth of industry expertise, our subject matter experts are able to provide tailored and swift sourcing solutions to fulfill client hiring needs. In other words, we connect top talent with companies. We are the staffing arm of the Pride Global network, a minority-owned integrated human capital solutions firm, with additional offerings in vendor management, payroll programs, and business process optimization.

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