Senior DevOps Specialist

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

Senior DevOps Specialist

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