Senior DevOps

Employment Type:

Full-time Regular

City:  Calgary, AB (YYC)

Posting Open Date:  02/10/2026

Posting Close Date:  02/24/2026 (Please note the posting will close at  11:59pm MST )

This position requires in-person collaboration up to 5 days per week.
* Please note this arrangement is subject to change with business requirements.
* Why West Jet
Every West Jet journey has the potential to enrich lives; a career with us is no exception.

West Jet arrived on the Canadian airline scene in 1996 and changed the industry for the better. We made air travel more affordable for Canadians and now we're going global.

Join us, this is where your career story takes off
Overview of role
West Jet is seeking for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer (Azure) reporting into our Digital Technology office within the Accounts & Rewards area. This individual can exhibit a high standard of excellence, enjoys challenges, and is results-driven. The incumbent must be highly motivated and demonstrate the ability to work in an agile environment.

As a Senior Dev Ops Engineer, you will be designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting infrastructure as code to deliver APIs and frontend software applications to our guests. This position requires an energetic and motivated individual with a strong work ethic and willingness to learn and contribute to a fast-paced environment. Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with others are essential.

Moreover, you will be able to participate in the following areas:
Apply industry-standard processes, practices, and techniques. Lead the Dev Ops team and business stakeholders to develop and support appropriate software solutions that meet West Jet’s business, technical and quality requirements. Coach and mentor to other Dev Ops team members.

Key deliverables include

Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance systems that support the digital functions of the company; implement and design CI/CD pipelines to automate the delivery of our APIs and Frontend applications

Prepare and maintain IaC scripts for our infrastructure and monitoring platforms

Automate and document troubleshooting of production applications

Ensure that all APIs are fully tested in an automated framework, including functional and performance tests

Actively participate and provide technical expertise for the creation, implementation, and ongoing evolution of West Jet’s design and development methodologies, coding standards, and style guidelines; participate in a pre/post-hours on‑call rotation to maintain a 24x7 environment

Experience and qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required

Minimum 6 years of Dev Ops experience (Azure preferred)

Designing and maintaining k8s environments (AKS preferred)

Building and deploying Docker containers

Linux administration

Continuous integration, testing, and deployment (Azure Dev Ops)

Implementing advanced monitoring for platforms and applications (Splunk cloud, Splunk Observability, etc.)

Infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)

CDN systems (Akamai)

Java script (Node.js) and Java programming experience

Event Broker administration (Kafka, Azure Event Hub)

Redis caching configuration (e.g. Azure Redis)

The benefits of being a West Jetter
West Jet provides all West Jetters with a competitive total rewards package. On top of that, we offer:

A fun and friendly culture with colleagues who work together to win

Travel privileges for you and your family, effective from your start date

Savings and Benefit programs that are flexible to meet your specific needs

Think we are a fit? Apply now!
About West Jet Group Of Companies
West Jet took to the skies in 1996 with just over 200 employees and three aircraft operating service to five destinations. Since then, West Jet has pioneered low-cost travel in Canada, cutting airfares in half, and increasing the flying population in Canada by more than 50 per cent. Following integration with Sunwing in 2025, more than 14,000 West Jetters support nearly 200 aircraft and connect guests to more than 100 destinations across North America, Central America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia.

As a major Canadian employer that includes West Jet…