DevOps Specialist, Sr.

Role Responsibilities

The Software Delivery Branch is seeking a Senior DevOps Specialist to support the design and operation of hybrid cloud infrastructure, with a strong focus on OpenShift platform engineering. Reporting to the Manager, CloudOps, this role is responsible for container platform operations across on-prem and Azure environments, ensuring platforms are secure, reliable, and scalable for critical government services.

The position works closely with Product and Platform Teams to enable consistent, automated, and production-ready infrastructure, and provides subject-matter expertise on container platform operations and DevOps best practices.


The responsibilities of this role include:

• Support the lifecycle management of OpenShift clusters (on-prem and Azure Red Hat OpenShift), including provisioning, upgrades, scaling, and capacity management.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tooling to enable standardized, secure, and repeatable deployments across on-prem and Azure environments.
• Contribute to platform reliability through monitoring, alerting, incident response, and troubleshooting of cluster health and performance issues.
• Support release orchestration and deployment workflows using enterprise build and release tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions), including environment configuration and operational consistency.
• Implement security best practices for container platforms, including identity and access management, secrets management, and compliance with enterprise standards.
• Contribute to backup, disaster recovery, and high availability strategies for container platforms and supporting infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Product and Platform teams to diagnose platform issues, promote DevOps and platform engineering best practices, and mentor team members on container operations.

To be successful in this position, you will demonstrate:

• Clear technical communication, including during incidents and across product and platform teams.
• Ability to work in collaborative, cross-functional environments and contribute to operational procedures, standards, and best practices.
• Sound judgment and composure when troubleshooting production issues under time pressure.
• A bias toward automation, repeatability, and documenting operational practices.
• Practical use of AI tools and AI agents to improve productivity, troubleshooting, and operational automation.
• Ability to coach and mentor others on platform engineering and DevOps practices.

Note: This role is focused on OpenShift cluster operations, platform engineering, and infrastructure automation. It is not an application development role or a CI/CD-only role. Full details are available in the linked job description below.

The Job Description is provided for Further details on this position. 

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• A university degree in a related field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology), supplemented by four (4) years of progressively responsible, related experience in cloud, hybrid cloud, and platform operations.
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrated hands-on experience operating Red Hat OpenShift in production environments, including cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, and operational troubleshooting, incident management.
• 5+ years of experience with Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) or other managed Kubernetes platforms in hybrid cloud environments (on-prem and public cloud).
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and platform automation tools such as Argo, Terraform, ARM templates, Ansible, or Helm, supporting standardized deployments on Microsoft Azure or comparable public cloud platforms.
• Working knowledge of container platform networking (ingress, DNS, load balancing) and implementation of security best practices including access control and secrets management.
• Experience with deployment automation platforms, including maintaining deployment workflows, managing environment configurations, and supporting release orchestration in enterprise environments.
• Hands on experience with AI tools and AI agents to improve productivity, troubleshooting, and operational automation.

Equivalencies:

• A related master’s degree and a minimum of two (2) years of related experience; or
• A related two-year diploma and a minimum of six (6) years of related experience; or
• A related one-year certificate and a minimum of seven (7) years of related experience.

Assets:

• Knowledge of OpenShift Virtualization (OCP-V), including running and managing virtual machine workloads on OpenShift clusters.
• Experience working within the Government of Alberta or other Canadian public sector environments.
• Familiarity with cloud governance, security, and compliance practices in regulated environments.
• Hands on Experience with AI-enabled workloads and model inference in an operational context.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.

Notes

Term of Employment: Permanent, Full-time position      

Hours of Work: 7.25 hours daily / 36.25 weekly – Monday to Friday

Location: Alberta

• Interviews will be conducted in person in Edmonton.
• Final candidates will be required to undergo a security screening.
  
  This competition may be used to fill future vacancies, across the Government of Alberta, at the same or lower classification level.
  
  Applicants are required to provide a cover letter summarizing information that clearly and concisely demonstrates how their qualifications meet the advertised requirements, including education, experience, and relevant examples of required competencies.

Additional Information:

In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. Also, please indicate whether your work experience is casual, part-time, or full-time. For example, January 15, 2006 - June 25, 2009: Assistant (PT three 8 hrs. shifts/week).

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

Links and information on what the GoA have to offer to prospective employees.

• Working for the Alberta Public Service 
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP)
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information 
• Professional learning and development 
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool 
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.