Senior DevOps Engineer - Azure & Terraform (Contract)

PLATO; Canada; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

PLATO is Canada’s largest Indigenous-owned software testing and technology services company. We’re seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a centralized team supporting multiple product and data teams.

You’ll design and manage the pipelines, infrastructure, and tooling that power our end‑to‑end delivery lifecycle across a modern Microsoft and Azure environment. You’ll design CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, implement environment-based release strategies, and help automate deployments across

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Boards, Artifacts), including 4+ in a lead role.
• Strong knowledge of Azure services (networking, compute, storage, IAM, Key Vault, PaaS).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments, including approvals and gating.
• Proficiency in scripting (PowerShell, Bash, or Python).
• Experience with Terraform and infrastructure as code practices.
• Strong understanding of Git workflows and source control strategies.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and support multiple delivery streams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps across infrastructure, data platforms, and test automation
• Implement environment-based release strategies with approvals, quality gates, and rollback mechanisms
• Create reusable pipeline templates and integrate automated testing, security scanning, and compliance checks
• Act as a DevOps advisor, promoting best practices in Git workflows, branching strategies, and deployment processes
• Develop and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure as code, including governance standards (RBAC, tagging, networking)
• Support Power Platform ALM, including solution packaging, deployments, and environment management
• Automate and support deployments for Azure Data Factory and Microsoft Dynamics 365, enabling CI/CD for data workflows
• Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and architecture reviews to improve reliability and consistency

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Git workflows

Power Platform ALM

Scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python)

CI/CD pipelines

Lead coordination

Job description

PLATO is Canada’s largest Indigenous-owned software testing and technology services company. We’re seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a centralized team supporting multiple product and data teams.

You’ll design and manage the pipelines, infrastructure, and tooling that power our end‑to‑end delivery lifecycle across a modern Microsoft and Azure environment. You’ll design CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, implement environment-based release strategies, and help automate deployments across