Senior DevOps Engineer
- Pay Rate: $84.87 to $95.94/hour, depending on experience
- Contract Length: 6 months (will convert to perm)
- Location: Calgary, Alberta
Raise is currently hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader. Our Client, is a major Canadian airline.
Note: The primary pay rate is based on T4 classification; however, we will also consider applications from candidates interested in an INC classification, where applicable.
Description
Our client is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with release coordination experience to join their technology team. In this critical role, you will support executive DevOps initiatives, relieve strain on core teams, and drive high-impact projects. You will play a key role in shaping 2026/2027 roadmap goals, supporting PCI compliance work, and enhancing the digital systems that serve our client’s guests.
Responsibilities
- Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify, modernize, and enhance the systems that power our client’s digital guest experiences.
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable secure, reliable, and automated delivery of APIs, applications, and platform services.
- Develop, maintain, and continuously improve Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions for cloud infrastructure, networking, security controls, monitoring, and platform components.
- Drive automation across operational processes, deployments, incident response, environment provisioning, and recovery procedures to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
- Implement and maintain observability solutions, including logging, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and distributed tracing to ensure platform reliability and performance.
- Automate, document, and continuously improve troubleshooting and operational runbooks for production services and critical guest-facing applications.
- Participate in a pre/post-hours on-call rotation, providing support for a 24×7 production environment while contributing to operational excellence initiatives that reduce support burden over time.
- Support release planning, deployment coordination, and change management activities across multiple teams and platforms.
Qualifications
- 10+ Years of Enterprise DevOps Experience: A solid decade of hands-on DevOps engineering experience, with Microsoft Azure strongly preferred.
- Kubernetes and Container Orchestration: Proven experience designing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade Kubernetes environments (AKS preferred) and building and deploying Docker containers.
- Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD Pipelines: Deep, practical experience building automated CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and managing infrastructure declaratively with Terraform.
- Observability and Monitoring: Direct experience implementing advanced monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing for platforms and applications, using tools such as Splunk Cloud or Splunk Observability.
- Release Coordination and 24×7 Production Support: Experience with cross-functional release planning, ITSM change management, and on-call rotations for high-availability, mission-critical production environments.
- Azure Cloud experience
- Linux administration and system administration
- Network knowledge
- Git version control
- CDN systems (Akamai)
- JavaScript (Node.js) and Java programming experience
- Soft Skills: Strong communication, adaptability, strong time management, ability to thrive in a complex and fast-paced environment, and a team player.
- Education and Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
- Nice to have certifications: DevOps Engineer Expert (Exam AZ-400), Certified Kubernetes
- Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), HashiCorp Certified, Splunk Certified Power User / Administrator, or Akamai Certified (Edge Platform / Web Security Solutions).
Nice To Have
- Ansible
- Argo CD
- CDN experience
- Dynatrace
Additional Requirement
- Our client asks that candidates provide 2 Endorsements/References at the time of application: ( this could be a colleague/manager that worked with you on Recent Projects that relate to this role Ask them to provide a Quick Endorsement – testimonial in point form of your accomplishment / value added) to highlight your skills for this role
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