DevOps Specialist

Job Title: DevOps Specialist (OpenShift Lead)

Location: Remote – Canada

Duration: 12+ Months (Contract, with possible extension)

Overview:

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Specialist – OpenShift Lead to support digital transformation and modernization initiatives. This role will focus on leading platform operations for OpenShift clusters (on-premises and cloud) while driving automation, infrastructure scalability, and operational excellence. The successful candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams and vendors, provide technical leadership, and deliver solutions that enable faster and more efficient service delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage OpenShift platform operations (cloud and on-prem).
• Architect and execute large-scale infrastructure projects (cluster rebuilds, expansions, and migrations).
• Collaborate with stakeholders and vendors to ensure platform reliability, scalability, and security.
• Build and maintain automation tools, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
• Monitor and optimize cluster health, performance, and capacity across environments.
• Implement security best practices, including RBAC, secrets management, encryption, and patching.
• Define and implement backup strategies, disaster recovery, and high availability.
• Diagnose and resolve platform and application issues quickly.
• Create dashboards, monitoring, and observability tools to improve operational efficiency.
• Provide incident response and production readiness support.
• Drive adoption of DevOps best practices across delivery teams.
• Support additional DevOps tools such as BuildMaster and GitHub ARC.

Required Experience & Skills

• Strong background in research, analysis, and problem-solving (7+ years).
• Proven experience leading cross-functional teams and vendor coordination (2+ years).
• Hands-on experience architecting, managing, and maintaining Azure Red Hat OpenShift clusters (5+ years).
• Strong expertise in monitoring, alerting, and incident detection systems (7+ years).
• Skilled in documenting technical issues, architecture decisions, and procedures (7+ years).
• Experience installing, configuring, and administering BuildMaster (3+ years).
• Infrastructure leadership in OpenShift cluster rebuilds, expansions, and migrations (5+ years).
• Production release readiness and incident response experience (3+ years).
• General cloud consultancy with Azure, including governance, best practices, and cost optimization (2+ years).
• Strong knowledge of cloud operations, platform engineering, and security awareness (5+ years).
• Proficiency with CLI tools and Linux command-line navigation (7+ years).
• Experience creating and maintaining BuildMaster workflows (5+ years).
• Hands-on with IaC tools such as Terraform (3+ years).
• Strong networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, trace routes, etc.) (7+ years).
• Background in compliance-heavy or public sector environments (e.g., NIST, PCI-DSS, DoD) (3+ years).
• Disaster recovery planning and testing (2+ years).
• Prior work experience in public sector or regulated industries (2+ years).