Job Information

Job Title: Manager, CloudOps

Job Requisition ID: 88224

Ministry: Technology and Innovation

Location: Edmonton

Full or Part-Time: Full-Time

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week

Permanent/Temporary/Wage: Permanent

Scope: Open Competition

Closing Date: October 20, 2026

Classification: Manager Zone 2

Salary: $3,920.66 to $5,276.07 bi-weekly ($102,329 - $137,705/year)

The Alberta Public Service works to build a stronger province for current and future generations. We make a difference in the lives of Albertans through rewarding and diverse career opportunities.

Technology and Innovation is responsible for making innovation and technology the driving force behind Alberta’s economic growth and diversification.

Within DDD, the Software Delivery Branch supports and enables product and platform teams by providing access to the underlying runtime and infrastructure -- cloud services, common tooling and patterns, and architecture capability -- and leads the evolution of the technology practice around digital service delivery, including contemporary platform operations and the delivery of AI-enabled services.

Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the Director, CloudOps, this position leads the Runtime & Platform Operations team, which operates the application runtime the division deploys onto: the OpenShift platform on-premises and in Azure (Azure Red Hat OpenShift), the supporting cloud infrastructure, and the golden path from container to production, with identity, logging, audit, and security gates wired in.

The position also enables AI workloads on the runtime - ensuring the platform is suitable for data-intensive and model-serving workloads, operating a local/private-model gateway,



and routing workloads to the appropriate hosting tenancy by classification.

The Responsibilities Of This Role Include

- Leading enterprise OpenShift platform operations across cloud and on-premises environments, ensuring secure, scalable, and highly available runtime services.
- Driving platform modernization by consolidating application hosting onto OpenShift and establishing standardized deployment and operational practices.
- Overseeing end-to-end container-to-production delivery pipelines, integrating CI/CD, security controls, observability, and governance requirements.
- Providing strategic cloud advisory services and enabling delivery teams to adopt cloud solutions, architecture patterns, and operational best practices.
- Evaluating cloud service requirements, contracts, and technology options while delivering recommendations that support business and operational objectives.
- Leading and developing multidisciplinary technical teams through coaching, performance management, workforce planning, and continuous professional development.
- Managing operational planning, budgets, contracts, and branch reporting while advising senior leadership on platform strategy, emerging risks, and service improvements.

To Be Successful In This Position, You Will Demonstrate





- Ability to build and maintain effective networks and collaborative environments; strong judgment, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills; ability to work within technology, policy, regulatory, financial, legal, ethical, and user constraints.
- Ability to adjust resources and shift priorities as demands or directions change, and to work with groups to manage change and negotiate solutions.

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 chance and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

- Systems Thinking: Ability to take a long-term view of challenges and opportunities, anticipate impacts, consider stakeholder perspectives, and align actions with organizational objectives and APS values.
- Agility: Ability to navigate change and uncertainty by identifying alternative approaches, anticipating obstacles and risks, communicating impacts effectively, and making informed decisions in complex situations.
- Build Collaborative Environments: Ability to foster collaboration by encouraging diverse perspectives, facilitating effective communication, proactively addressing conflict, recognizing contributions, and promoting commitment toward shared goals.

Qualifications

Requirements

- A university degree in a related field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, Commerce, Arts), supplemented by four (4) years of progressively responsible, related experience.
- A cover letter clearly demonstrating relevant skills and competencies tailored to this position.

Preference

📌 Manager, Cloud Ops (Edmonton)
🏢 Government of Alberta
📍 Edmonton