Position: DevOps Specialist (6-month term)
Location: Ottawa, On (hybrid – 3x/week on-site)
Minimum Experience: 3+ years
What you’ll do:
- Update, maintain and improve reusable GitLab CI/CD components and templates.
- Design and optimize pipelines for Java and Maven applications, including builds, automated testing, security scanning and artifact publishing.
- Improve pipeline performance, reliability and maintainability through caching, parallelization and efficient runner usage.
- Manage GitLab runners, container registries, package registries and pipeline artifacts.
- Establish CI/CD standards and best practices while supporting application teams in owning their pipelines.
- Work with Development, Security, SRE and Platform teams to turn common delivery needs into reusable solutions.
- Evaluate new GitLab features and emerging DevOps practices.
- Troubleshoot issues involving builds, pipelines, runners, containers, registries and security scanning.
- Share knowledge through coaching, reviews, training and clear documentation.
What you’ll bring:
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, build engineering or software development.
- Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, including reusable components, templates, runners, caching, artifacts and pipeline rules.
- Hands-on software development experience, preferably with Java and Maven-based applications.
- Experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, security scanning and artifact publishing.
- Experience with GitLab security scanning, Docker, container registries and package registries.
- Proficiency in Java, Python, Bash or another scripting or programming language.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across application builds, pipelines, runners, containers and security scans.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD security, secrets management and software supply-chain practices.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), GitOps, Argo CD or Terraform is an asset.
- GitLab certifications and experience with regulated or mission-critical platforms are assets.
The pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position is between CA$106,000 and CA$117,000
Our voluntary benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.
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