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Job Description
About Pattison Food Group Ltd.
Come join Pattison Food Group Ltd., a Jim Pattison business, and Canada’s largest Western-based provider of food and health products.
Pattison Food Group Ltd. is a certified Great Place to Work® and consists of Save-On-Foods and other well-known grocery banners. With nearly 300 retail locations, we proudly employ nearly 30,000 team members.
Job Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for a full-time Senior DevOps Engineer to join our IT team in Langley, BC.
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Applications Support, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership, help shape our DevOps Center of Excellence (CoE), and guide a small, collaborative DevOps practice with enthusiasm and a continuous improvement mindset. You will champion automation, modern tooling, engineering standards, and cross-team enablement to drive long-term operational and development efficiency.
In this role, you will play a strategic and hands-on role at the intersection of software development, infrastructure, and IT operations. This position will enhance software delivery performance, elevate engineering maturity, and advance DevOps best practices across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Providing technical leadership for DevOps initiatives, guiding architecture, standards, patterns, and tooling decisions.
- Leading and evolving the DevOps Center of Excellence, establishing best practices, reusable frameworks, and shared services that improve consistency and accelerate delivery across teams.
- Designing, implementing, and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions to automate and streamline software delivery.
- Developing configuration management and automation using Ansible to deploy and maintain systems and applications.
- Building and managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform in collaboration with Cloud and Infrastructure teams.
- Optimizing and monitoring cloud environments (Azure), emphasizing cost efficiency, resilience, autoscaling, and resource optimization.
- Implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using tools like Nagios and Splunk to ensure system health and reliability.
- Mentorship, coaching, and troubleshooting support to developers, administrators, and cross-functional teams.
- Collaborating enthusiastically with development, cloud, infrastructure, and security teams to improve productivity, consistency, and delivery processes.
- Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives aimed at evolving the SDLC through automation, observability, and platform engineering.
Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of experience as a software developer.
- 3+ years of system administration experience.
- 3+ years managing Azure Cloud services.
- Proficiency with Linux, Windows, Bash, PowerShell, Java.
- Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Hands-on experience with DevOps tooling including GitHub Actions, Ansible, and Terraform.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps methodologies.
- Experience designing and improving SDLC processes using automation.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, including driving architectural decisions, mentoring others, and influencing best practices.
- Experience contributing to or establishing a DevOps Center of Excellence or similar engineering enablement function.
You are:
- Collaborative, positive, and enthusiastic in your leadership style, with the ability to guide and inspire a small DevOps practice.
- An excellent communicator with strong teamwork and stakeholder engagement skills.
- A strong leader with the ability to plan and execute large, complex initiatives effectively.
What we offer:
In addition to a highly competitive salary, we offer a great range of benefits, a company pension plan, free parking, exclusive team member offers, and opportunities for development and career progression.
If you’re looking to join a team that puts people first, you’re in the right place. Apply online today!
Compensation Details:
$114,220.00 - $152,293.00
The compensation offered for this position will take into consideration location, education, skills, experience and other factors.
Key skills/competency
- DevOps Engineering
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Cloud Computing (Azure)
- Automation
- Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Configuration Management (Ansible)
- Monitoring & Logging
- Technical Leadership
- SDLC Optimization
How to Get Hired at Pattison Food Group
- Tailor your resume: Highlight your 5+ years in software development, 3+ years in system administration, and Azure experience. Emphasize your CI/CD, IaC, and automation tool proficiencies (GitHub Actions, Ansible, Terraform).
- Showcase leadership: Detail your experience in technical leadership, mentoring, and establishing DevOps CoEs in your application and during interviews.
- Prepare for technical questions: Be ready to discuss your experience with Linux, Windows, Bash, PowerShell, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure cloud services.
- Demonstrate collaboration: Emphasize your enthusiasm, positive attitude, and strong communication skills, highlighting your ability to work with cross-functional teams.
- Research Pattison Food Group: Understand their mission, values, and commitment to being a Great Place to Work® to align your answers with their culture.
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