Teckhorizon Inc
Senior DevOps Specialist
Teckhorizon IncCanada19 hours ago
ContractManagement, Manufacturing
Overview

The Client is undertaking a large-scale digital transformation to deliver simpler, more efficient, and citizen-focused services. To support this initiative, the Digital Design and Delivery (DDD) Division serves as the Province’s center for modern digital delivery, ensuring service quality and value through human-centered design, Agile methodologies, and modern data and DevOps practices. The branch is seeking a Senior DevOps Specialist to lead and support the delivery, operation, and continuous improvement of secure, scalable, and high-impact digital platforms.

Responsibilities

DevOps & Infrastructure

  • Design, implement, and maintain automation scripts, tools, and procedures to support operations and enable low-downtime deployments.
  • Lead operations of digital services in production, including:
    • Configuration and credential management across environments
    • Maintenance planning and execution
    • Database upgrades, migrations, backups, and recovery
  • Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment templates, and reusable DevOps patterns.
  • Develop tools and scripts to automate environment provisioning for development, testing, and production.
  • Implement monitoring, logging, and telemetry solutions to improve application observability and performance tracking.
  • Proactively monitor infrastructure and applications, identifying and resolving performance, reliability, and security issues.
  • Continuously upgrade infrastructure and tooling to reduce technical debt and address vulnerabilities.
Security & Compliance

  • Apply security best practices and ensure solutions meet regulatory and compliance standards.
  • Lead infrastructure and security reviews to ensure high levels of quality and security.
  • Support security scans, performance testing, load testing, and system testing as part of CI/CD pipelines.

Agile Delivery & Collaboration

  • Collaborate with Team Leads, Developers, QA Engineers, and DevOps team members to support seamless integration and delivery.
  • Support early and frequent delivery through Alpha and Beta releases.
  • Promote DevOps best practices, continuous improvement, and process optimization within delivery teams.
  • Maintain DevOps documentation, artifacts, and operational standards.
  • Work within Agile/Scrum methodologies, contributing to open communication and a high-performance team culture.

Must-Haves

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

Work Experience

  • 7+ years experience with Azure RedHat OpenShift
  • 7+ years experience with BuildMaster
  • 7+ years experience with Disaster Recovery architectures, processes, and testing
  • 7+ years experience in performance monitoring and troubleshooting
  • 7+ years experience replicating environments across development, test, and production
  • 7+ years experience scaling services using horizontal and/or vertical scaling techniques
  • 7+ years experience with VM sizing based on performance testing and workload needs
  • 7+ years experience as a DevOps Specialist on large-scale Agile enterprise projects
  • 7+ years experience working on consistent enterprise Agile development teams
  • 7+ years experience with cloud-based and mobile application development

Nice-to-Haves

  • 3+ years experience incrementally transforming large-scale enterprise legacy systems
  • 2+ years experience within the Government of Alberta or similar public-sector environment
  • 2+ years experience leveraging AI tools for DevOps development
  • 2+ years experience working in large national or global organizations

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