Salary Details

The salary range for this position is CAD $46.39/Hr. - CAD $66.68/Hr.

Job Summary

Come work as a DevOps Specialist with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)

Vancouver Coastal Health is looking for a DevOps Specialist to join the Data and Analytics Team. Apply today to join our team

As a DevOps Specialist with Vancouver Coastal Health you will:

- Support the organization’s various data analytics initiatives by streamlining and automating the processes for building, testing, deploying, and maintaining solutions across on-premises, public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
- Support projects covering all programs/services within Data and Analytics and throughout Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH).
- As a key member of the department’s team, be responsible for applying modern techniques such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) to ensure that data development and releases are automated, scalable, efficient, and reliable in secure environments.
- Work closely with project managers, leadership and other functions across the department and VCH.
- Collaborate with various other health authority data architects, PHSA IMITS technical teams, VCH business and analytics teams, external vendors (e.g. Microsoft, AWS) and other internal or external teams on cross-functional projects.
- Apply strong design and technical expertise with a primary focus of constantly improving Data and Analytics’ ability to deliver and promote on-premises and cloud-based data solutions within the approved enterprise environments.

This work is framed within VCH’s commitments to our pillars of Indigenous Cultural Safety, Anti-Racism, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion,



and Planetary Health.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management or a Software Engineering related field plus at least five (5) years’ experience as an or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience as Platform, DevOps, DataOps, or Site Reliability Engineer. Certification from at least one cloud service provider is preferred (e.g. Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert).

Knowledge & Expertise

- Extensive experience performing DevOps practices including but not limited to: code review, unit test automation, build & release automation, incident and change management.
- Demonstrated experience in designing, implementing, streamlining and monitoring CI/CD pipelines within a data-focused department/organization.
- Demonstrated experience building and optimizing data pipelines (ETL) within a Databricks setting or other cloud data warehousing technologies
- Demonstrated experience practicing DataOps functions and processes
- Demonstrated experience working with Azure DevOps, Databricks, and Azure SQL.
- Demonstrated experience developing a branching strategy to tackle monolithic repos.
- Strong proficiency with Git and GitHub workflows.
- Proficiency coding in Python, Bash, Terraform, ARM,



Bicep or other scripting languages with a focus on automating releases or processes.
- Working knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Working knowledge of databases (Azure SQL, Synapse, etc) and SQL.
- Knowledge of Azure or other cloud infrastructure services (e.g Azure Data Factory, Azure DevOps) an asset.
- Ability to analyze requirements, develop architecture/design artifacts, and execute migrations from on-premises infrastructure to cloud environments.
- Demonstrated hands on experience building sophisticated and highly automated infrastructure.
- Ability to perform analysis of the current practices and design and implement best practices and emerging concepts.
- Demonstrated understanding of DevSecOps practices.
- Proven ability to stay updated on the latest trends and technologies in data engineering, cloud computing, and healthcare information technology
- Deep understanding of security principles and experience in developing design patterns to ensure security, scalability, and optimization for growing data volumes.
- Strong analytical, prioritizing, interpersonal, problem-solving, presentation, budgeting, project management (from conception to completion), & planning skills.
- Develops and maintains strong relationships with key internal and external partners to promote and enhance services provided with sensitivity to diversity and indigenous lens.
- Practices the recognition, inclusion and support of all types and aspects of diversity at all stages of engagement, with an understanding of the issues faced by people from equity-deserving groups.
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📌 DevOps Specialist (Vancouver)
🏢 Vancouver Coastal Health
📍 Vancouver