Senior DevOps Engineer — Azure, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Jenoptik AG; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

Jenoptik Light & Safety seeks a DevOps engineer to own build and release pipelines, manage containerized environments, and empower development teams to ship reliably. You will work on a globally distributed engineering team, focusing on infrastructure that keeps software secure and easy to deploy.

Development experience, especially .NET, is a strong plus but not required. We hire for DevOps depth first and seek strong Azure, Docker and Kubernetes skills with a customer-centric mindset.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer or in a similar infrastructure or platform role.
• Strong knowledge of Azure DevOps, Docker, and Kubernetes, plus hands-on experience across the Azure ecosystem and web application architecture.
• Experience with configuration management and infrastructure-as-code tools like Ansible or Terraform.
• CI/CD experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
• A deep understanding of the software development life cycle.
• Knowledge of Azure (or a similar cloud), .NET, and SQL/SQL Server.
• Familiarity with common web architectures, such as LAMP or MEAN stacks, CDNs, and load balancing.
• Experience mentoring and training other engineers.
• Experience working on a globally distributed engineering team.
• Strong communication skills. You can explain infrastructure concepts clearly to developers, other technical teams, and management.
• Comfortable absorbing technical detail quickly and making sound decisions under tight deadlines, even with incomplete information.
• Willingness to travel to Jupiter, FL; Mississauga, ON; Monheim am Rhein, Germany; and Farnborough, England.
• Experience with radar, photo enforcement, or traffic systems is a plus.
• This position is open due to a vacancy
• This position does not use AI to screen or assess candidates
• The salary requirement for this position is a base salary between $95,000 to $106,000 CAD + bonus.

Responsibilities

• Design engineering processes that simplify how we build, deploy, and operate software.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Manage Azure-hosted, containerized environments and keep our .NET applications highly available.
• Review code and designs for scalability, performance, and alignment with best practices.
• Build developer tools that speed up releases and improve code quality, including automated releases and test automation frameworks.
• Partner with the development team to define standardized environments that bridge local development and production.
• Write technical documentation, unit tests, and integration tests, and keep CI/CD pipelines current.
• Support governance and quality assurance through automated testing and integration validation.
• Troubleshoot deployment issues and optimize performance within Azure.
• Serve as an escalation point for service incidents.
• Evaluate new tools and approaches, including infrastructure as code, observability, and serverless, to keep our stack current.

Skills

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

PowerShell

Python

GitHub Actions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Azure

Job description

Jenoptik Light & Safety seeks a DevOps engineer to own build and release pipelines, manage containerized environments, and empower development teams to ship reliably. You will work on a globally distributed engineering team, focusing on infrastructure that keeps software secure and easy to deploy.

Development experience, especially .NET, is a strong plus but not required. We hire for DevOps depth first and seek strong Azure, Docker and Kubernetes skills with a customer-centric mindset.