Intermediate DevOps Specialist

Job summary

The Intermediate DevOps Specialist designs, implements, and operates secure software delivery capabilities for geospatial applications, Earth observation data platforms, and mission-focused services. The role develops CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, containerized deployments with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm, automated testing, and observability, while partnering with engineering and cybersecurity teams to improve reliability, security, and operational practices.

Benefits

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience in software development, DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or systems administration.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• Experience automating operational tasks with Python, shell scripting, PowerShell, or similar languages.
• Experience with Git-based source control and collaborative workflows, such as GitLab.
• Experience creating and supporting CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or comparable tools.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration-management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Salt.
• Experience supporting monitoring and observability platforms such as Elastic Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, or Dynatrace.
• Working knowledge of Linux, networking, identity and access management, certificates, and secrets management.
• Ability to diagnose complex delivery and platform issues, communicate technical information clearly, and collaborate across engineering and operations teams.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Government of Canada reliability status security clearance and meet Controlled Goods Program and applicable export-control requirements.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent education and relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Plan, build, test, release, deploy, and operate software and data services with project teams.
• Design, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines for builds, quality checks, security scans, testing, packaging, and deployment.
• Integrate automated testing into delivery pipelines with Software Quality Engineering.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code and configuration automation across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
• Integrate code-quality, security-scanning, and policy controls into CI/CD workflows.
• Build and support containerized platforms and deployment patterns using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• Implement logging, metrics, dashboards, alerting, and operational health checks.
• Apply secure development, access-control, secrets-management, vulnerability-management, and compliance requirements with cybersecurity and SecOps teams.
• Maintain runbooks, pipeline documentation, reusable templates, and technical standards.
• Investigate incidents, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions for delivery, platform, and service issues.
• Improve reliability, reduce manual effort, and manage delivery risk.

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