DevOps Specialist

The Government of Alberta (GoA) through its Digital Design and Delivery (DDD) division is seeking up to seven DevOps Specialists to support digital transformation service innovation and program modernization initiatives across the Government of Alberta.

The successful candidates will work as part of cross-functional product and program delivery teams collaborating with Product Owners developers designers and other technology professionals to deliver secure reliable scalable and high-quality digital services.

The DevOps Specialist will focus on automation CI/CD cloud infrastructure production operations monitoring security and continuous delivery while helping delivery teams adopt modern DevOps practices.

• Design and implement automation scripts tools and procedures to support deployments maintenance and minimize downtime.
  
• Support the operation of digital services in production environments.
  
• Manage configuration credentials and production environments following security and least-privilege practices.
  
• Plan and coordinate application maintenance activities.
  
• Support database upgrades migrations backups and recoveries.
  
• Develop reusable templates and patterns for application deployments and CI/CD pipelines.
  
• Automate the provisioning and configuration of development and testing environments.
  
• Build monitoring telemetry and observability solutions to provide application and infrastructure visibility.
  
• Support early and frequent integration security system performance and load testing.
  
• Assist delivery teams with limited-availability releases such as Alpha and Beta launches.
  
• Identify and eliminate manual processes through automation and AI-enabled solutions.
  
• Troubleshoot infrastructure application networking and deployment issues.
  
• Document technical issues solutions procedures and operational processes.
  
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to continuously improve delivery and operational practices.
  

Candidates must demonstrate:

• 3 years of experience in research analysis and problem solving.
  
• 3 years of experience documenting technical issues solutions and procedures.
  
• 2 years of experience leveraging Generative AI and agentic tooling including prompt design RAG workflow automation and critical evaluation of AI-generated outputs.
  
• 3 years of experience using SSH clients and Remote Desktop tools.
  
• 3 years of experience with security practices including secrets management and least-privilege access.
  
• 3 years of experience with cloud platforms such as:
  • AWS EC2 S3 RDS
    
  • Microsoft Azure Azure SQL Database Blob Storage
    
  • GCP BigQuery Cloud Storage
    
• 4 years of experience using command-line interfaces for command execution and file-system navigation.
  
• 1 year of experience with networking tools such as DNS lookups traceroute and load balancing.
  
• 4 years of experience with scripting tools particularly PowerShell.
  

• 2 years of experience working as a DevOps Specialist supporting continuous delivery of custom-built applications.
  
• 2 years of experience designing and deploying hybrid-cloud applications using Red Hat OpenShift.
  
• 2 years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
  
• 3 years of experience using VS Code or Visual Studio 2019.
  
• 3 years of experience working with CI/CD pipelines within a large-scale enterprise environment.
  
• Experience with GitHub Actions and its integration into software delivery workflows.
  
• Experience creating and maintaining automated test suites and supporting quality engineering practices.
  
• Experience with cloud-native deployment monitoring observability and production support.
  

Candidates must provide at least two project examples demonstrating their DevOps expertise.

Each project should clearly describe:

1. Project/assignment overview and the candidates DevOps responsibilities.
   
2. Industry/sector approximate user count and team size.
   
3. Specific tools technologies and skills used.
   
4. Experience supporting continuous delivery of custom-built solutions.
   
5. Experience with:
   • Hybrid cloud and/or Red Hat OpenShift
     
   • GitHub Actions
     
   • Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform
     
   • Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
     

All required experience should be clearly documented under the relevant job/project on the resume.

The role is primarily remote but candidates may be required to attend meetings or work sessions in Edmonton Alberta up to 15% based on project requirements.

Candidates must perform the work within Canada and must be able to attend Edmonton onsite sessions when required.