Senior DevOps Engineer

• Senior Dev Ops Engineer
• Pay Rate: $84.87 to $95.94/hour, depending on experience
• Contract Length: 6 months (will convert to perm)
• Location: Calgary, Alberta

Raise is currently hiring a Senior Dev Ops Engineer on behalf of our client.

They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader.

Our Client, is a major Canadian airline.

Note: The primary pay rate is based on T4 classification; however, we will also consider applications from candidates interested in an INC classification, where applicable.

Description

Our client is looking for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer with release coordination experience to join their technology team.

In this critical role, you will support executive Dev Ops initiatives, relieve strain on core teams, and drive high-impact projects.

You will play a key role in shaping 2026/2027 roadmap goals, supporting PCI compliance work, and enhancing the digital systems that serve our client’s guests.

Responsibilities

• Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify, modernize, and enhance the systems that power our client’s digital guest experiences.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable secure, reliable, and automated delivery of APIs, applications, and platform services.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve Infrastructure-as-Code (Ia C) solutions for cloud infrastructure, networking, security controls, monitoring, and platform components.
• Drive automation across operational processes, deployments, incident response, environment provisioning, and recovery procedures to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Implement and maintain observability solutions, including logging, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and distributed tracing to ensure platform reliability and performance.
• Automate, document, and continuously improve troubleshooting and operational runbooks for production services and critical guest-facing applications.
• Participate in a pre/post-hours on-call rotation, providing support for a 24x7 production environment while contributing to operational excellence initiatives that reduce support burden over time.
• Support release planning, deployment coordination, and change management activities across multiple teams and platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ Years of Enterprise Dev

Ops Experience: A solid decade of hands‑on Dev Ops engineering experience, with Microsoft Azure strongly preferred.

• Kubernetes and
• Container

Orchestration: Proven experience designing, deploying, and maintaining production‑grade Kubernetes environments (AKS preferred) and building and deploying Docker containers.

• Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD Pipelines: Deep, practical experience building automated CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops and managing infrastructure declaratively with Terraform.
• Observability and

Monitoring: Direct experience implementing advanced monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing for platforms and applications, using tools such as Splunk Cloud or Splunk Observability.

• Release Coordination and 24x7 Production

Support: Experience with cross‑functional release planning, ITSM change management, and on‑call rotations for high‑availability, mission‑critical production environments.

• Azure Cloud experience
• Linux administration and system administration
• Network knowledge
• Git version control
• CDN systems (Akamai)
• Java Script (Node. js) and Java programming experience
• Soft Skills: Strong communication, adaptability, strong time management, ability to thrive in a complex and fast‑paced environment, and a team player.

Education and Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• Nice to have certifications: Dev Ops Engineer Expert (Exam AZ‑400), Certified Kubernetes
• Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Hashi Corp Certified, Splunk Certified Power User / Administrator, or Akamai Certified (Edge Platform / Web Security Solutions).
• Nice To Have
• Ansible
• Argo CD
• CDN experience
• Dynatrace
• Additional Requirement
• Our client asks that candidates provide 2 Endorsements/References at the time of application: ( this could be a colleague/manager that worked with you on Recent Projects that relate to this role Ask them to provide a Quick Endorsement - testimonial in point form of your accomplishment / value added) to highlight your skills for this role

Looking for meaningful work? We can help!

Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience.

We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.

We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in.

We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.

We have a dedicated webpage for accommodations where you can learn more about what we offer and request accommodation: https://raise. jobs/accommodations/

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