DevOps Specialist
Summary
Contract DevOps Specialist (7 openings) placed via Upstaff with the Government of Alberta's Digital Design & Delivery division, working remotely within Canada with up to 15% onsite in Edmonton. Day-to-day: building CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments and environment provisioning, and supporting cloud production operations and observability, with heavy emphasis on PowerShell, AWS/GCP/Azure, and
Role Overview
The Government of Alberta’s Digital Design & Delivery (DDD) division is seeking DevOps Specialists to support service innovation, program review, and digital transformation projects. Resources will work across 2–3 projects as part of cross-functional product delivery teams, supporting continuous delivery, automation, cloud operations, and production services.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement automation for deployments, maintenance, and reduced downtime.
- Support production operations, including configuration, credentials, maintenance, database upgrades, backups, and recovery.
- Create application deployment templates and CI/CD pipelines.
- Automate development and testing environment provisioning.
- Build monitoring, telemetry, and observability solutions.
- Support integration testing, security scans, system testing, performance/load testing, and Alpha/Beta releases.
- Remove manual processes through automated and AI-enabled solutions.
- Document issues, solutions, procedures, and operational processes.
Requirements
Mandatory Qualifications
- 3+ years research, analysis, and problem-solving experience.
- 3+ years documenting issues, solutions, and procedures.
- 2+ years leveraging Generative AI and agentic tooling, including prompt design, RAG, AI-output evaluation, and AI-augmented workflows.
- 3+ years experience with SSH clients and Remote Desktop.
- 3+ years security awareness, including secrets management and least privilege.
- 3+ years experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- 4+ years experience with command-line interfaces.
- 1+ year experience with networking tools such as DNS, traceroute, and load balancing.
- 4+ years experience with scripting tools such as PowerShell.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- 2+ years as a DevOps Specialist supporting continuous delivery of custom-built solutions.
- 2+ years designing/deploying hybrid-cloud applications using Red Hat OpenShift.
- 2+ years with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
- 3+ years with VS Code or Visual Studio 2019+.
- 3+ years working with enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
Work & Security Requirements
- Work must be performed within Canada.
- Primarily remote, with potential Edmonton onsite work up to 15%.
- Candidate provides required computer, software, and other remote-work equipment.
- Microsoft Teams is the primary virtual meeting platform.
- Criminal record check is required.
- Enhanced security clearance may be required for Justice assignments, with potential for higher-level clearance depending on the ministry.
- Mandatory government training may include privacy, information management, cybersecurity/security, and workplace conduct.