DEVOPS SPECIALIST

Requisition #: R25-3336 (GOAPRDJP00000635)
Location: Remote (within Canada)
Engagement Type: Contract
Number of Resources required: 1
Rate (CAD): Up to $100 per hour / Commensurate with related experience and market competitiveness
Term: 2025-08-13 to 2026-03-31 with 24-month extension available (up to 31.5-month contract)
Hours per day: 7.25
Security Screening: Standard (Criminal Record Check)

Submission Deadline/Closing Date: July 28, 2025 (12:00 PM Mountain Time)

Tri-global Solutions Group Inc. is seeking one (1) DevOps Specialist to join our talented Service Delivery team at Ministry of Technology and Innovation (Government of Alberta).
WORK MODEL: The successful contractor will be working remotely, though must be available for onsite meetings if required. It is anticipated that this role will be 100% remote. Work must be done from within Canada at all times due to network and data security policies. Applicants must be authorized to work in Canada to apply (Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident). Standard Hours of work are 08:00 - 16:30 Alberta time, Monday through Friday excluding observed holidays.
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Tri-global Solutions Group Inc.

Website: https://tri-global.com

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES

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.

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS

• The proposed resource must meet or exceed one of the following (9+ years): * Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science and 5 years of DevOps related experience, OR * 2-yr Information Technology related degree or diploma and 7 years of DevOps related experience
• Experience securing workloads in hybrid or multi-cloud environments, ensuring seamless integration of Zero Trust principles across on-premises and cloud platforms. (5 years+)
• Experience developing on cloud platforms and utilizing cloud services in development and in solutions. (5 years+)
• Experience in leading hybrid (cloud as well on-premise) data initiatives, from strategy development to implementation, ensuring alignment with business objectives (5 years+)
• experience managing a production service in an enterprise using cloud-based infrastructure and/or using Infrastructure as Code. (5 years+)
• Experience with cloud-based development. (5 years+)

DESIRABLE REQUIREMENTS

• Experience with cloud computing or big data platforms and infrastructure (5 years+)
• Experience with cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and the ability to leverage them to build scalable and resilient architectures. (5 years+)
• Experience with containerization, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code practices for cloud or hybrid environments (5 years+)
• Proven ability to define and communicate solution architecture for large-scale systems, including integrations, modernization strategies, and cloud-native design patterns. (5 years+)

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