Client: Government of Alberta Work Location : 7000 - 113 ST, Edmonton Alberta CAN, T6H 5T6, Remote Estimated Start Date : 13/08/2025

Estimated End Date: 31/03/2026

#Business Days : 159.00

Estimated Hours per Day: 7.25

Maximum Duration of Extension: 24 Months

Description Project Name:

• AIM DevOps Enablement and Integration

Scope

• Enablement and integration of DevOps services with Cloud and on premise services.
• Duties: This is the standard description of services – revise as needed.
• A DevOps Specialist manages service operations and designs robust deployment environments, automation pipelines, monitoring systems, and diagnostic tools to support continuous, iterative development. This role emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional teams and users to evolve service delivery in agile environments.

Collaboration & Agile Integration

• Leads collaboration with cross-functional teams using agile methodologies to continuously improve services.
• Partners with stakeholders and product owners to understand service needs, size environments, and shape deployment strategies.
• Participates in project discovery activities, including fieldwork and technical user research, where relevant to infrastructure and operations.

Deployment Engineering & CI/CD Pipelines

• Designs, implements, and maintains CI/CD pipelines in partnership with Full Stack Developers and QA Automation teams to support continuous delivery.
• Standardizes and documents reusable CI/CD pipeline templates for cloud and on-premise environments.
• Integrates DevSecOps workflows into CI/CD pipelines, embedding automated security scanning, code quality checks, and compliance validations using tools such as SonarQube and Veracode.

Infrastructure Automation & Environment Management

• Architects and provisions infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, and AWS CloudFormation to enable consistent, repeatable deployments.
• Automates the setup and maintenance of deployment environments, supporting configuration, environment promotion, and blue-green deployment strategies.
• Supports identity and access management (IAM) across environments, including Azure AD and B2C integrations, role-based access control (RBAC), and single sign-on (SSO) configurations.

Monitoring, Diagnostics & Service Reliability

• Implements and maintains automated monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using platforms like Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, Kibana, and Elasticsearch.
• Conducts diagnostics and performance tuning to ensure operational health, supporting proactive detection and resolution of service issues.
• Implements event-driven operations and self-healing workflows using messaging platforms such as Azure Service Bus or AWS SNS.

Maintenance, Evaluation & Optimization

• Plans and coordinates service maintenance activities with minimal downtime and user disruption.
• Evaluates existing services for performance and reliability, identifying and recommending optimization opportunities based on analytical insights.

Knowledge Sharing & Innovation

• Mentors developers and operations teams on DevOps tools, workflows, and best practices to foster adoption and continuous improvement.
• Leads knowledge transfer initiatives and builds onboarding frameworks for DevOps projects, infrastructure patterns, and toolchains.
• Contributes to innovation efforts by developing proof-of-concept pipelines, integrating emerging DevOps technologies, and exploring cost-performance optimization strategies.

Other Duties

• Performs other responsibilities as required or assigned in support of DevOps and service delivery objectives.

Note Working Hours:

• Standard Hours of work are 08:15 – 16:30 Alberta time, Monday through Friday excluding holidays observed by the Province
• Work must be done from within Canada, due to network and data security issues.
• It is anticipated the role will be 100% remote, however in the event of an onsite meeting, the GoA does not pay for travel to attend on-site meetings, nor any expenses related to relocation, commuting, housing/accommodation, food/drink.

Notes on Location:

• Resource will work remotely.

Eligibility and Application Steps If you are enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity, we kindly request you to provide the following documents: hrsmss@smsoftconsulting.com

Without mandatory documents, we cannot submit a candidate.

• Updated Resume in word format (Mandatory)
• Skills Matrix and References (Mandatory)
• Expected hourly rate (Mandatory)
• Visa Status (Mandatory)
• LinkedIn ID (Mandatory)

Please only apply if you meet the qualifications mentioned above. Feel free to share with your network or tag someone who fits for this role! If you have any questions or need further clarification, feel free to call or text at (647) 408-1348.