DevOps Specialist – CI/CD, OpenShift & Cloud Automation

ThoughtStorm; Edmonton; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ThoughtStorm seeks an experienced DevOps Specialist to drive digital transformation and modern application delivery for the Government of Alberta. You will design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment templates, and automation frameworks to enable reliable, frequent releases in large-scale environments.

You will bring hands-on expertise with GitHub Actions, IaC, Terraform, OpenShift and Hybrid Cloud, plus PowerShell scripting for provisioning and deployment automation.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and operating DevOps with CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Hands-on IaC practices using Terraform and cloud platforms.
• Experience deploying to OpenShift and hybrid cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment templates and automation frameworks for large-scale environments.
• Develop environment provisioning, deployment automation and reduction of manual operations.
• Support production operations including backups, migrations, and security best practices.
• Implement monitoring, telemetry and observability across the delivery lifecycle.

Skills

GitHub Actions

CI/CD pipelines

IaC

Terraform

OpenShift

Hybrid Cloud

PowerShell

Automation

Monitoring

Observability

Secrets management

Least privilege

Generative AI

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

OpenShift

PowerShell

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

• We are seeking an experienced DevOps Specialist to support digital transformation and modern application delivery initiatives for the Government of Alberta, working within cross-functional product and delivery teams.
• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment templates and automation frameworks to enable reliable, frequent and low-downtime application releases in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Bring hands-on expertise with GitHub Actions, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, Red Hat OpenShift and Hybrid Cloud application deployment.
• Develop PowerShell/scripts, tools and automated processes for environment provisioning, application deployment, maintenance and reduction of manual operational activities.
• Support production operations, including configuration and credential management, maintenance, database upgrades/migrations, backups and recovery, while applying security best practices such as secrets management and least privilege.
• Implement monitoring, telemetry and observability solutions and support integration, security, system, performance and load testing throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP, enterprise DevOps practices, command-line tools and emerging Generative AI/agentic automation is highly valuable. This is a primarily remote role, with occasional work sessions in Edmonton, Alberta, and work must be performed within Canada.