Deployment Engineer

Versaterm; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A global public safety solutions company is looking for a Deployment Engineer dedicated to ensuring efficient deployment processes for public safety software. Responsibilities include collaborating with law enforcement agencies, managing data interfaces, and maintaining data pipelines. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree related to technology, 4+ years of IT experience, and strong communication skills. This role can be performed remotely or at any office across Canada.

Benefits

Remote work flexibility

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Accommodations available upon request

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in a customer-facing technical role.
• 4+ years experience in Information Technology.
• Ability to pass a criminal background check with USA and Canada public safety agencies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with law enforcement agencies to implement technical data interfaces.
• Build and maintain data pipelines against REST and SOAP APIs.
• Lead data quality control validation review sessions.

Skills

Communication skills

Customer-centric approach

Problem-solving

Collaboration

ETL fundamentals

Data manipulation

SQL proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Tools

PowerShell

SQL

Atlassian (Jira/Confluence)

GitHub

Job description

Versaterm is a global public safety solutions company helping agencies transform how they serve their communities. Since 1977, we’ve been building an ecosystem of intuitive tools designed for public safety agencies, forensic labs, court systems, schools and other institutions. Through purposeful integrations and a selective growth strategy, we focus on improving workflows to help our customers achieve more efficient operations, better service and more just outcomes.

Our teams are driven by innovation, expertise and an unwavering commitment to customer success. As we continue to grow and expand our ecosystem, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to solutions that enhance community safety and transform the future of public safety technology. If you’re passionate about making a meaningful difference, we’d love to hear from you.

The Role

At a time when police and community relationships are tested more than ever before, law enforcement agencies are looking for every opportunity to provide their communities with exceptional service. COMMUNITYCONNECT has built the world’s first automated customer service platform for law enforcement that gives agencies the tools they need to best serve their communities. Our platform interacts with 911 callers and victims of crime by communicating with them directly to keep them updated and gather their feedback.

We are seeking a customer‑centric, details‑driven Deployment Engineer to ensure that we are providing a smooth and efficient deployment process for our customers. The Deployment Engineer is responsible for managing the technical action items for each deployment process, with the primary focus of deploying custom data integration interfaces to a variety of different public safety software systems.

This is a client‑facing position, which would require remote presentation and communication skills on a regular basis. Deployment Engineers must have a strong ability to collaborate effectively both internally and externally, can overcome complex problems, and the ability to deploy solutions in an organized, thorough, and timely manner.

This position can be based at any of our offices across Canada and the United States or performed remotely from a home office.

Preference will be given to candidates who are available to work on‑site.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with law enforcement agencies to plan, present, and implement technical data interfaces, leveraging ETL fundamentals
• Build and maintain data pipelines against REST and SOAP APIs
• Extract, transform, and load (ETL) data elements
• Manipulate data structures using JSON, XML, SQL, and CSV formats
• Perform database discovery and navigate complex SQL schema structures
• Lead data quality control validation review sessions
• Integrate with both on‑premises and cloud‑based database systems
• Collaborate with project management teams to build sustainable deployment processes and infrastructure
• Interact with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Support customers in a technical capacity throughout the customer lifecycle

What You’ll Bring

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (this is a customer‑facing role)
• 2+ years’ experience in a customer‑facing technical role
• 4+ years’ experience in Information Technology
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent
• Proficiency using PowerShell or another scripting language to manipulate data
• Proficiency writing complex SQL queries (multiple joins, using CTEs, dynamic T‑SQL statements)
• A desire to help public safety agencies
• Ability to pass a criminal background checks with USA and Canada public safety agencies

You’ll Succeed If You Have

• A background in ETL software integrations
• Data analysis experience
• Experience managing technical projects, from initiation to completion
• Familiarity with Atlassian (Jira/Confluence), GitHub, Sentry, Datadog, Metabase, PagerDuty
• Windows administration experience (scheduled tasks, AD domain)
• Understanding of Ruby on Rails or another object‑oriented programming language

This position requires security clearances due to the nature of our work with public safety agencies. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada and must successfully obtain and maintain a Reliability security clearance from the Government of Canada. Additionally, candidates must comply with the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy and pass a comprehensive, fingerprint‑based background check. Please note that specific customer contracts may impose additional security verification requirements. Obtaining and maintaining all required security clearances is a condition of employment. For more information, please visit Public Services and Procurement Canada for Reliability clearance details and the FBI’s CJIS Security Policy Resource Center for CJIS requirements.

Versaterm is committed to building and supporting inclusion, diversity, and equity, and sustaining a barrier‑free environment. Accommodations are available, on request, throughout all aspects of the selection process. These principles apply to the terms and conditions of employment at Versaterm. For detailed information on our accessibility policies, please [e-mail].