Remote position

About SOVRA

SOVRA is a leading public procurement platform serving over 7,000 government agencies and connecting them with more than 1 million suppliers across North America.

With an international team of 500 experts, SOVRA offers comprehensive, end-to-end solutions tailored to address the unique challenges of public procurement, ensuring compliance, enhancing efficiency, and promoting transparency. Our commitment to innovation has been recognized with the Achievement of Excellence in Procurement (AEP) Certification from the National Procurement Institute, affirming our platform's adherence to the highest standards in efficiency and vendor accessibility.

By leveraging SOVRA's advanced tools and expansive supplier network, public agencies can optimize every tax dollar spent, drive better procurement outcomes, and deliver exceptional services to their communities.

You can find more info at SOVRA.com.

About the job

What will your main responsibilities look like at SOVRA?

In this role, you will be led to:

• Be a key player for all aspects of Cloud platforms and solutions projects, including solution creation through requirements analysis, design, implementation, and deployment;
• Participate in infrastructure projects, maintain the availability, reliability, security and performance of development and production environments and its customers;
• Keep abreast of the latest industry standards and emerging technologies;
• Engage with members of the Product, Services, and Cloud Ops teams to understand our key needs around development efficiency and automation, as well as platform deployment and management;
• Build and manage tools for developer support, and automated software delivery and testing;
• Develop and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines;
• Research new DevOps tools and techniques as appropriate, staying current with industry best practices;
• Use DevOps principles to influence and create new architecture standards and best-practices that improve the way our customers/partners create and manage solutions on our platform;
• Build and maintain internal documentation on properly deploying our platform, and building/managing solutions on our platform;
• Work with business teams to establish required service levels and the business criteria required to meet them;
• Provide level 3 support services for entire AWS Cloud ecosystem; Be available for technical support (24/7) in an on call rotation.

What elements of your professional background will be necessary and useful in this role?

• University degree in computer science or equivalent;
• At least 5 years of IT experience in solution or project architecture;
• You have 3 years or more of the following:
  • Experience with EC2, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform technology;
  • Production experience with Serverless Environment (e.g., Paas, Kubernetes);
  • Experience building and maintaining Continuous Integration systems;
  • Experience in using PostgreSQL or SQL databases;
• Familiar with latest DevOps methodologies and best practices;
• Strong knowledge of Linux and AWS platforms, and related development environments.
• Experience in Linux systems administration;
• Experience in Shell and/or Bash and/or Python scripting; At least 3+ years experience of on call technical support.

What are the assets that would make you stand out?

• Self-motivated, energetic, team player with a results-oriented approach;
• Ability to work in a collaborative and matrix environment;
• Strong understanding of networking principles;
• Motivated by continuous learning and ability to learn quickly on new technologies;
• Good knowledge of the IT application development lifecycle;
• Exposure to multiple and diverse technologies and processing environments; Bilinguism.

Thank you for your interest in SOVRA. However, only selected candidates will be contacted.

At SOVRA, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We provide a work environment free from discrimination and harassment. In addition, we are committed to ensuring pay equity across our organization and regularly review our compensation practices.