AGFA HealthCare Corporation
Team Lead, DevOps
AGFA HealthCare is hiring a hands-on DevOps Team Lead in Waterloo, Ontario to lead and mentor a DevOps team while staying technical: maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Bitbucket, Gradle), driving GitOps and DevSecOps adoption, and building scalable, observable cloud-native infrastructure on public cloud platforms.
- Compensation
- CA$125K–CA$175K / yr
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
- 2+ years of leadership experience (formal or informal) in a DevOps or software engineering team
- Strong expertise in CI/CD pipelines, automation, and infrastructure-as-code
- Experience with Jenkins, Bitbucket, Gradle, and GitOps tools (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux)
- Solid background in cloud-native architectures and deployment strategies
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration
- Understanding of DevSecOps best practices and security automation
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, able to work across teams and geographies
- Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their DevOps toolchains
Nice to have
- Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack)
- Background in performance tuning and system reliability engineering (SRE)
- Familiarity with progressive delivery techniques (e.g., feature flags, canary releases)
Full description
We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Team Lead to join and lead our DevOps team. This role is a player-coach position where you will not only guide and mentor the team but also actively contribute as an engineer. You will help shape our cloud-native transformation, drive the adoption of GitOps and DevSecOps practices, and ensure the efficiency, scalability, and security of our development and deployment pipelines.
Location:
- Remote: Waterloo ON
What You'll Do:
Team Leadership & Coaching
- Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.
- Support career development and skill-building within the team.
- Act as a bridge between DevOps, Architecture, and Development teams to align strategies and execution.
- Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bitbucket, and Gradle.
- Optimize infrastructure for cloud-native deployments, ensuring scalability and reliability.
- Support and refine build automation, infrastructure as code (IaC), and containerization strategies.
- Develop and maintain observability solutions, ensuring reliability, security, and performance of services.
Hands-On DevOps Engineering
- Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bitbucket, and Gradle.
- Optimize infrastructure for cloud-native deployments, ensuring scalability and reliability.
- Support and refine build automation, infrastructure as code (IaC), and containerization strategies.
- Develop and maintain observability solutions, ensuring reliability, security, and performance of services.
Cloud-Native & GitOps Transformation
- Drive the transition towards GitOps practices, automating deployment workflows and reducing manual interventions.
- Implement DevSecOps principles to enhance security automation and compliance within CI/CD pipelines.
- Guide the team in leveraging cloud-native architectures and technologies effectively.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
- Work closely with development teams (Java & Angular) to enhance developer experience and streamline software delivery.
- Partner with security teams to embed security-by-design principles into DevOps workflows.
- Communicate technical strategies and progress to senior management and stakeholders.
Who You Are:
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.