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DevOps Specialist

Hirekeyz Inc.

 

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Posted On: 1 day ago
Experience: 5+ years
Availability: Hybrid
Openings: 1
Category: DevOps Specialist
Tenure: Contract - Corp-to-Corp
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Description

Key Responsibilities

The DevOps Specialist will support the delivery and operation of modern digital services, with responsibility for automation, production operations, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, infrastructure, and reliability.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Create scripts, tools, and procedures to automate deployment, maintenance, and operational activities.
  • Support low-downtime and automated deployments.
  • Manage configuration and credentials for production environments.
  • Plan and manage production maintenance activities.
  • Support database upgrades, migrations, backups, and recovery activities.
  • Create reusable deployment templates and patterns.
  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
  • Automate development and testing environment setup.
  • Create monitoring, telemetry, and observability tooling.
  • Support application teams with:
    • Integration testing
    • Security scanning
    • System testing
    • Performance testing
    • Load testing
  • Support Alpha/Beta and limited-production releases.
  • Identify manual processes and replace them through automation and AI-enabled solutions.
  • Work collaboratively with product owners, developers, QA, security teams, and other project stakeholders.

Mandatory Skills

Candidates should have strong hands-on experience in the following areas:

Cloud Platforms

  • AWS
    • EC2
    • S3
    • RDS
  • Google Cloud Platform
    • BigQuery
    • Other GCP services
  • Azure / hybrid-cloud exposure preferred

Minimum required cloud experience: 3+ years.

Scripting & Automation

  • PowerShell
  • Command-line tools
  • Shell/CLI-based administration
  • Automation scripting
  • File-system navigation and command execution

PowerShell: 4+ years
Command Line: 4+ years.

DevOps / CI-CD

  • CI/CD pipeline design and support
  • GitHub Actions
  • Automated deployment
  • Build and release automation
  • Environment provisioning
  • Production operations
  • Large-scale enterprise CI/CD environments

Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform
  • Infrastructure provisioning
  • Environment automation

Containers / Hybrid Cloud

  • Red Hat OpenShift
  • Hybrid cloud application deployment
  • Containerized environments

Security

  • Secrets management
  • Credential management
  • Basic infrastructure and application security
  • Secure production environment management

Minimum security-awareness experience: 3+ years.

Networking

  • DNS
  • Traceroute
  • Load balancing
  • Basic troubleshooting of networking issues

Remote Administration

  • SSH clients
  • Remote Desktop
  • Remote access and environment troubleshooting

Minimum required experience: 3+ years.

AI / GenAI

  • Generative AI tools
  • Agentic AI tooling
  • Using GenAI to produce executive-grade documentation, analysis, or automation outputs

Required exposure: 2+ years.

Nice-to-Have Skills

  • 2+ years as a DevOps Specialist supporting continuous delivery of custom-built applications
  • 2+ years designing/deploying Hybrid Cloud applications using Red Hat OpenShift
  • 2+ years with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
  • 3+ years with Visual Studio / VS Code
  • 3+ years working with CI/CD pipelines in large enterprise environments

Soft Skills

  • Strong research and analytical skills
  • Problem solving
  • Documentation
  • Root-cause analysis
  • Ability to document issues, procedures, and technical solutions
  • Strong team collaboration
  • Ability to work across multiple concurrent projects

Minimum research/analysis/problem-solving experience: 3 years.

Project-Specific Submission Requirement

Each candidate must provide at least two DevOps project examples.

The examples should be added at the bottom of the resume and should clearly explain:

  1. Project overview and DevOps responsibilities.
  2. Industry/sector supported.
  3. Approximate user count and team size.
  4. Specific technologies and tools used.
  5. Experience supporting continuous delivery of custom-built solutions.
  6. Hybrid Cloud / Red Hat OpenShift experience.
  7. GitHub Actions usage.
  8. Terraform/IaC experience.
  9. Direct CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

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