DevOps Specialist - Remote / Telecommute

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - 6 Month(s)

Skills

Agile
Artificial Intelligence
Backup Administration
Cloud Computing
Collaboration
Computer Science
Configuration Management
Continuous Delivery

Job Details

We are looking for DevOps Specialist - Remote / Telecommute for our client in Edmonton, AB
Job Title: DevOps Specialist - Remote / Telecommute
Job Location: Edmonton, AB
Job Type: Contract
Job Description:
  • The DevOps Specialist will work across multiple projects, supporting the delivery, operation, and continuous improvement of modern digital services.
  • The role focuses on automation, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and DevOps best practices within Agile delivery teams.
Responsibilities:
  • Design, develop, and maintain scripts, tools, and procedures for operational automation.
  • Implement automation for deployments and maintenance with minimal downtime.
  • Lead operational support of digital services in production environments.
  • Manage configuration, credentials, and environment settings.
  • Plan and manage system maintenance activities.
  • Manage database upgrades, migrations, backups, and recoveries.
  • Create templates and reusable patterns for application deployments and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Automate provisioning of development and testing environments.
  • Build monitoring, logging, and telemetry solutions to improve system observability.
  • Support early integration testing, security scans, system testing, and performance testing.
  • Support limited-availability releases such as Alpha and Beta launches.
  • Continuously improve DevOps processes and maintain technical documentation.
  • Follow Agile and Scrum methodologies while collaborating in high-performance teams.
Requirement / Must Have:
  • Bachelor s degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • Strong experience with Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
  • Hands-on experience with BuildMaster.
  • Experience with cloud-based and mobile application development.
  • Experience designing and supporting disaster recovery architectures and processes.
  • Strong experience in performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
  • Experience replicating environments manually or through Infrastructure as Code.
  • Experience scaling services using horizontal and vertical scaling techniques.
  • Experience with VM sizing based on performance testing.
  • Experience working as a DevOps Specialist on large-scale Agile enterprise projects.
  • Experience collaborating within enterprise Agile development teams.
Should Have:
  • Experience modernizing large-scale legacy systems into digital services.
  • Experience working in government or large enterprise environments.
  • Experience leveraging AI tools in DevOps practices.
  • Experience working in large national or global organizations.
Skills:
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent).
  • CI/CD pipelines and automation.
  • Containerization and orchestration.
  • Cloud platforms and hybrid environments.
  • Configuration management and automation tools.
  • Monitoring, logging, and observability tools.
  • DevSecOps and secrets management.
  • Release engineering and deployment strategies.
  • Disaster recovery planning and implementation.
Qualification And Education:
  • Bachelor s degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
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