Job Description
Senior DevOps Engineer at a glance...
Location: Toronto, ON
Hybrid: 3 days/week
We are seeking a technically strong Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the automation, reliability, and consistency of our software release processes across Digital teams. This role is focused on building and evolving the engineering capabilities that enable high‑quality, low‑friction releases — including CI/CD pipelines, automated validation steps, safe deployment patterns, and reliable rollback strategies. You will collaborate with full‑stack, data, and cloud engineering teams to ensure our release processes are secure, scalable, and aligned with modern DevOps and platform‑engineering practices. The ideal candidate is an engineer at heart who can translate release requirements into automation, tooling, and best‑practice patterns adopted across teams
What's on the menu?
Release Automation & CI/CD Ownership:
- Design, build, and optimize automated CI/CD workflows (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) to support consistent and reliable deployments across environments.
- Implement automated release validation steps including build verification, test gates, security scans, dependency checks, and artifact promotion.
- Define and standardize deployment and release procedures through automation rather than manual checklists.
Safe Deployment & Rollback Engineering:
- Develop, implement, and continuously improve rollback strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags, versioned deployments).
- Ensure that code, configuration, and infrastructure releases follow reliable versioning and traceability practices.
- Partner with engineering teams to increase release resilience and reduce change failure rates. Release Coordination Through Tooling & Visibility
- Enable transparent release visibility by building dashboards and automated reporting (e.g., via GitHub, Azure DevOps, dashboards, or observability tools).
- Provide engineering teams with real‑time insight into deployment status, release contents, and post‑deployment health.
- Ensure release information is accessible and self‑service rather than dependent on manual communication.
Cross-Team Collaboration & Standards
- Partner with QA, Cloud Engineering, and Platform Engineering to align standards for automated testing, environment readiness, and quality gates.
- Work with product engineering teams to ensure release patterns are adopted consistently across stacks.
- Contribute technical guidance to evolve release standards, tooling, and best practices across Digital. Platform, Observability & Operational Reliability
- Improve observability and deployment health monitoring using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and/or Datadog.
- Contribute to operational excellence by improving reliability, availability, and MTTR (mean time to recovery) of release-related workflows.
Subject-Matter Expertise & Mentorship
- Act as the technical SME for release automation across Digital teams.
- Mentor engineers on modern DevOps, CI/CD, GitOps, and release engineering practices.
Recipe for Success - apply now if this sounds like you!
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Release Engineering, SRE, Platform, or Cloud roles
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (compute, networking, storage, identity)
- Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps Pipelines and/or GitHub Actions)
- Experience supporting containerized workloads and Kubernetes platforms (e.g., AKS)
- Strong understanding of containerization (Docker, Helm)
- Experience with scripting or automation using Bash, PowerShell, Python, or similar
- Solid understanding of networking concepts (DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs)
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills
- Azure certifications: AZ‑104, AZ‑400, or AZ‑305 preferred
- Experience with GitOps tools or models (ArgoCD, Flux, etc.) preferred
- Experience with policy/guardrail‑based approaches (Azure Policy, OPA/Gatekeeper) preferred
- Experience contributing to or maintaining shared engineering standards or platform capabilities preferred
Our Total Rewards philosophy is to provide a meaningful and flexible spectrum of programs that equitably support our diverse workforce and their families and complement Kraft Heinz’ strategy and values.
New Hire Base Salary Range:
$118,600.00 - $148,200.00
Bonus: This position is eligible for a performance-based bonus as provided by the plan terms and governing documents.
The compensation offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors
Benefits: Coverage for employees (and their eligible dependents) through affordable access to healthcare, protection, and saving for the future, we offer plans tailored to meet you and your family’s needs. Coverage for benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.
Wellbeing: We offer events, resources, and learning opportunities that inspire a physical, social, emotional, and financial well-being lifestyle for our employees and their families.
You’ll be able to participate in a variety of benefits and wellbeing programs that may vary by role, country, region, union status, and other employment status factors, for example:
Physical - Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Screenings/Assessments
Social - Paid Time Off, Company Holidays, Leave of Absence, Flexible Work Arrangements, Recognition, Training
Emotional – Employee Family Assistance Program, Wellbeing Programs, Family Support Programs
Financial -Savings/Pension, Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Disability, Discounted Perks
Location(s)
Toronto - Queen's Quay - Headquarters
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for protected individuals, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact NAZTAOps@kraftheinz.com for assistance.
