Team Lead, DevOps

AGFA HealthCare; Waterloo; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare company seeks a hands-on DevOps Team Lead to guide a team while actively contributing as an engineer. The role involves shaping cloud-native transformations and implementing GitOps and DevSecOps practices. Join a collaborative environment that supports professional development and offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package

Support for training and professional development

Collaborative and technically engaging environment

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
• 2+ years of leadership experience in a DevOps or software engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers.
• Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive the transition towards GitOps practices.

Skills

Collaboration

Communication

Leadership

Automation

Tools

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Gradle

Docker

Kubernetes

GitOps

Job description

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Talent Acquisition Specialist at Agfa HealthCare

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership & CoachingLead 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.
• Hands-On DevOps EngineeringMaintain 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 TransformationDrive 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 ManagementWork 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.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 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.

Nice to Have:

• 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).

What We Offer:

• A collaborative and technically engaging environment.
• Opportunities to lead and shape the future of our DevOps practices.
• Support for training and professional development.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

If you're a passionate DevOps leader looking to make an impact in a fast-moving, cloud-native environment, we’d love to hear from you!

We offer:

We offer a rewarding career in a field that impacts lives, the opportunity to work with a talented and committed team of individuals, training and career development programs, and a competitive compensation and benefits package. If you want to be part of this experience, we'll take you there!

Agfa Inc. is committed to complying with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act 2005 (AODA) and all of its standards to create a barrier-free Ontario. We will provide necessary accommodations during the recruitment and selection process to all applicants. If you require accommodation as part of the employment application process, please contact [e-mail].

At Agfa HealthCare, we are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes diversity of Age, Gender, Gender Identity or Expression, Race, Sexual Orientation, Physical Ability, Ethnicity, or any other aspect that makes someone unique. The differences among us are our strengths. We are committed to promoting a diverse, equal, and inclusive workplace that fully represents the different cultures, viewpoints, and backgrounds of our global organization and the world we live in.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology and Engineering

• Industries

  Software Development, Hospitals and Health Care, and IT Services and IT Consulting

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