Senior DevOps Engineer

The role

The Senior DevOps Engineer will design, implement, and maintain AWS infrastructure, GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, and an observability stack. This role owns the platform layer end to end to support a growing cloud infrastructure and AI-driven development workflow.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient frameworks within AWS infrastructure using Terraform and configuration management tooling.
• Design and manage CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions.
• Evaluate AI-assisted deployment tooling.
• Implement and maintain cloud security practices across infrastructure, identity, networking, and deployment workflows.
• Collaborate with security teams on vulnerability management, secrets management, OIDC-based authentication, and compliance automation.
• Support audit readiness and disaster recovery planning.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance management capabilities.
• Participate in incident management, root-cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Contribute to a 24/7 on-call rotation after onboarding.
• Identify automation opportunities using scripting and AI tooling.

Required qualifications

• 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)
• 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

Nice to have

• SIEM/SOAR and security monitoring familiarity
• AIOps and MLOps experience (such as MLflow, SageMaker, or Bedrock)
• SaaS or govtech environment experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and medical coverage
• Paid time off
• A structured learning and development program
• Paid parental leave

Before you apply

• We are not able to sponsor work visas or transfers at this time

About the company

SOVRA is a leading public procurement platform trusted by more than 7,000 government agencies and over 1 million suppliers across North America. The company is a growing, mission-driven organization focused on the public sector.