Senior DevOps Engineer in Calgary

SOVRA is a leading public procurement platform trusted by more than 7,000 government agencies and over 1 million suppliers across North America. Our work sits at the intersection of technology, public service, and accountability, helping governments operate more efficiently and transparently on behalf of the communities they serve.

About the job

SOVRA is adding a Senior DevOps Engineer to support the engineering team responsible for its public sector platform. This role was created to meet the operational demands of a growing cloud infrastructure and an AI-driven development workflow that requires a disciplined, security-minded engineer to own the platform layer end to end.

The role generates designs, automation, and day-to-day operation of SOVRA’s AWS infrastructure, Github Actions CI/CD pipelines, and observability stack. The person in this role participates in sprint cadences alongside development and data engineering teams, contributes to security hardening beyond access controls, evaluates AI-assisted DevOps tooling critically, and takes part in a 24/7 on-call rotation after onboarding.

The work requires someone who brings strong ownership across cloud infrastructure, security, and reliability practices, and who can move from strategic decisions to operational detail without losing rigor on either end. Public sector workloads carry a high standard for availability and audit readiness, and this role is accountable for holding that standard in everything it ships.

Main Responsibilities:

• Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering: You design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient frameworks within AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, Route 53, RDS, S3, CloudWatch) using Terraform and configuration management tooling to keep environments consistent across dev, staging, and production.
• CI/CD & Developer Enablement: You design and manage CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions that support secure, reliable, and frequent software delivery for an AI-driven development team, participating in sprint ceremonies as a platform contributor.
• Security & Compliance: You implement and maintain cloud security practices across infrastructure, identity, networking, and deployment workflows. You collaborate with security teams on vulnerability management, secrets management, OIDC-based authentication, and compliance automation, and you support audit readiness and disaster recovery planning.
• Observability, Reliability & AI Operations: You develop and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance management capabilities, using observability platforms to identify and resolve complex issues across distributed systems.

What you will bring to this role:

• 5+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or SRE.
• 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience across core services (EC2, VPC, IAM, Route 53, RDS, S3, CloudWatch) and proven experience building infrastructure with Terraform and configuration management tooling.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of GitHub Actions or a comparable CI/CD platform.
• Working knowledge of cloud security fundamentals (IAM, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, OIDC federation).
• Experience with enterprise observability platforms such as Datadog, ELK/OpenSearch, or equivalent.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or a comparable language.
• Experience working with AI development or operations agents.
• Authorization to work in Canada.

Assets that would make you stand out:

• Exposure to SIEM or SOAR platforms.
• Familiarity with AIOps or MLOps concepts and tooling.
• Experience in a SaaS or government technology environment.

You should apply if:

• You want genuine ownership of a cloud platform.
• You are drawn to an environment where AI tooling is central to how the development team works.
• You find the discipline of DevSecOps to be the right way to build.
• You want to work on technology that serves the public sector.

What we look for in applications: We review every application individually and assess it on its own merits rather than screening for keywords.

Interview process: Our process is designed to be thorough while respecting your time. Two rounds: Screening with Talent Acquisition, Hiring Manager, Technical Interview, and Team Interview.

Why you should join us: SOVRA serves the public sector, and the work carries the weight that comes with that purpose. Every improvement to our platform helps government agencies operate more efficiently and deliver greater value to the communities they serve.

At SOVRA, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.