Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Calgary, AB — Hybrid (3 days/wk)

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About SOVRA

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.

What makes SOVRA unique is our deep focus on the public sector. Our solutions are purpose-built to solve real, complex procurement challenges, balancing compliance with usability and innovation. That commitment has been recognized with the Achievement of Excellence in Procurement (AEP) Certification from the National Procurement Institute, reflecting our high standards and impact on the market.

At SOVRA, the work you do matters. Every improvement we make helps public organizations stretch taxpayer dollars further, operate with greater transparency, and deliver better outcomes for millions of people. We're a growing, mission-driven company where smart, curious people come together to build technology that serves the public good.

Learn more at sovra.com.

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.

What will your main responsibilities look like?

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.

You evaluate AI-assisted deployment tooling where the output can be validated and the risk is understood.

Security & Compliance

You implement and maintain cloud security practices across infrastructure, identity, networking, and deployment workflows. Going well beyond permissions to address the full surface.

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.

You contribute to the evaluation of AI-assisted SIEM and SOAR capabilities where appropriate, applying the same output-validation discipline you bring to all AI tooling.

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.