Client: Government of Alberta – Digital Design & Delivery (DDD)

Location: Remote within Canada; up to 15% onsite in Edmonton, Alberta

Work Hours: 7.25 hours/day, 36.25 hours/week

Positions: 7

Contract: Full-time contract

Maximum Extension: Up to 24 months

Respond By: September 17, 2026

Travel: Up to 15%

Role Overview

The Government of Alberta’s Digital Design & Delivery (DDD) division is seeking DevOps Specialists to support service innovation, program review, and digital transformation projects. Resources will work across 2–3 projects as part of cross-functional product delivery teams, supporting continuous delivery, automation, cloud operations, and production services.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and implement automation for deployments, maintenance, and reduced downtime.

- Support production operations, including configuration, credentials, maintenance, database upgrades, backups, and recovery.

- Create application deployment templates and CI/CD pipelines.

- Automate development and testing workplace provisioning.

- Build monitoring, telemetry, and observability solutions.

- Support integration testing, security scans, system testing, performance/load testing, and Alpha/Beta releases.

- Remove manual processes through automated and AI-enabled solutions.

- Document issues, solutions, procedures, and operational processes.

Requirements

Mandatory Qualifications

- 3+ years research, analysis, and problem-solving experience.

- 3+ years documenting issues, solutions, and procedures.





- 2+ years leveraging Generative AI and agentic tooling, including prompt design, RAG, AI-output evaluation, and AI-augmented workflows.

- 3+ years experience with SSH clients and Remote Desktop.

- 3+ years security awareness, including secrets management and least privilege.

- 3+ years experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

- 4+ years experience with command-line interfaces.

- 1+ year experience with networking tools such as DNS, traceroute, and load balancing.

- 4+ years experience with scripting tools such as PowerShell.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

- 2+ years as a DevOps Specialist supporting continuous delivery of custom-built solutions.

- 2+ years designing/deploying hybrid-cloud applications using Red Hat OpenShift.

- 2+ years with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.

- 3+ years with VS Code or Visual Studio 2019+.

- 3+ years working with enterprise CI/CD pipelines.

Work & Security Requirements

- Work must be performed within Canada.

- Primarily remote, with potential Edmonton onsite work up to 15%.

- Candidate provides required computer, software, and other remote-work equipment.

- Microsoft Teams is the primary virtual meeting platform.

- Criminal record check is required.

- Enhanced security clearance may be required for Justice assignments, with potential for higher-level clearance depending on the ministry.

- Mandatory government training may include privacy, information management, cybersecurity/security, and workplace conduct.

📌 DevOps Specialist (Alberta)
🏢 Upstaff
📍 Alberta