[Hiring] DevOps Engineer @SOVRA

Role Description

The DevOps Engineer will 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, Gitlab 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.

Qualifications

• 3+ 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 Gitlab 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

Requirements

• You design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient frameworks within AWS infrastructure using Terraform and configuration management tooling
• You design and manage CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab that support secure, reliable, and frequent software delivery
• You implement and maintain cloud security practices across infrastructure, identity, networking, and deployment workflows
• You develop and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance management capabilities
• You participate in incident management, root-cause analysis, and post-incident reviews
• You identify automation opportunities using scripting and AI tooling to reduce operational toil and increase deployment velocity

Benefits

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

Company Description

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.

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.