Team Lead, DevOps

AGFA • Waterloo, ON

30d • CA$125,000 - CA$175,000 • Remote

About The Position

Agfa HealthCare, a division of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is seeking a hands-on DevOps Team Lead to join and lead their DevOps team. This is a player-coach position where the individual will guide and mentor the team while actively contributing as an engineer. The role involves shaping the cloud-native transformation, driving the adoption of GitOps and DevSecOps practices, and ensuring the efficiency, scalability, and security of development and deployment pipelines. The position is located remotely in Waterloo, ON.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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).

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefit package.
• Career development and growth.
• Training and career development programs.
• Thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
• Details about compensation programs, including variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles, vacation entitlement, and paid time off will be provided during the hiring process.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed