Job Description

Position Title :- DevOps Specialist
Location :- Edmonton Alberta CA
Mode :- ContractA DevOps Specialist identifies and removes roadblocks and distractions that affect sprint commitments and prevent delivery of product features. The DevOps Specialist will be responsible for the management of the agile sprint process for cross-functional program review or product delivery teams. The DevOps Specialist will provide leadership and mentoring in agile principles, policies, and procedures, to enable the teams to self-organize and deliver consistently on sprint deliverables. The DevOps Specialist will be expected to manage communication, maximize transparency, disseminate information related to service delivery, and resolve any conflict when it arises.Services and project deliverables should evolve as the work progresses, in response to emerging user and business needs, as well as design and technical opportunities. However, the following must be delivered (iteratively) over the course of the project:

• Create scripts, tools, and procedures for operations by:

• Designing and implementing automation for limited downtime deployment and maintenance.
• Lead operations of digital services in production by:

• Managing configuration and credentials for the production environment.
• Planning and managing maintenance activities.
• Managing database upgrades and migrations, backups, recoveries, etc.
• Provide operations support for implementation and enhancement of digital services by:

• Creating templates and patterns for application deployments and CI/CD pipelines; and
• Creating scripts and tools to automate the establishment of environments for development and testing.
• Creating tools, scripts and processes that will enable application teams to have better observability of the application through monitoring and telemetry tools
• Support delivery teams in adopting best practices by:

• Providing operations support for early and frequent integration testing, security scans, system testing, and performance and load testing; and
• Providing operations support for early and frequent delivery to end-users in limited availability launches (Alphas and Betas).

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