Jobs / WestJet Airlines
Specialist – DevOps
WestJet Airlines · Calgary, AB, Canada
Calgary, AB, CanadaExp: 7+ yrsRemote
Remuneration
Competitive total rewards package, travel privileges for the employee and family, and flexible savings and benefits programs
Location
Calgary, AB, Canada
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The DevOps Specialist designs, builds, and improves enterprise tooling, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and Kubernetes capabilities to support secure, reliable, and scalable software delivery. The role establishes reusable delivery standards, manages platforms including Atlassian Suite, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Artifactory, SonarQube, and Docker, and partners with teams on container migrations and environment management.
Benefits
Travel privileges for the employee and familyFlexible savings and benefits programsCompetitive total rewards package
Qualifications
- Postgraduate qualification in a relevant field and 7+ years of experience preferred, or equivalent training and experience.
- Experience leading and mentoring multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to lead governance, standardization, and enterprise-scale tooling adoption.
- Hands-on experience with complex release processes and environment landscapes.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience applying program, project, and Agile methodologies to technical delivery.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and improve DevOps platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and automation.
- Establish reusable delivery platforms, standards, pipeline templates, and shared libraries.
- Maintain governance for branching, releases, tooling standards, and compliance.
- Administer and manage the lifecycle of DevOps delivery platforms.
- Build and maintain Kubernetes capabilities and support container workload migrations.
- Develop a self-service environment management platform and manage environment lifecycles.
- Lead DevOps upgrades, automation opportunities, and modernization initiatives.
- Promote DevOps practices and continuous improvement across teams.
Skills
AKSArtifactoryAzureAzure DevOpsDockerGitHubKubernetesSonarQubeGit
Degrees
Postgraduate qualification in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems
Industry
AviationAirlines
Relocation
No