About Johnson Controls
Johnson Controls, a global leader in thermal management, mission-critical building systems, energy efficiency, and decarbonization, helps customers use energy more productively, reduce carbon emissions, and operate with the precision and resilience required in rapidly expanding industries such as data centers, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, advanced manufacturing, and higher education.
For more than 140 years, Johnson Controls has delivered performance where it really matters. Backed by advanced technology, lifecycle services and an industry-leading field organization, we elevate customer performance, turn goals into real-world results and help move society forward.
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What you will do
OpenBlue from Johnson Controls is a cyber-secured smart building ecosystem that unifies data, AI, and automation to transform how buildings perform. By connecting systems that have historically stood apart and applying award-winning analytics, we give customers real-time visibility, predictive insight, and automated action across the entire building lifecycle. None of that reaches a customer without the platform underneath it. Our data platform, our enterprise SaaS portfolio, and OpenBlue Airwall run continuously for enterprise, public sector, and government customers, in environments where an outage or a data integrity problem carries real operational consequence for the buildings and the people inside them.
Johnson Controls is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer. You will be the senior technical owner of escalated production problems, capable of debugging a failure across application code, data pipelines, cloud services, and network paths, and driving it through to permanent corrective action rather than a restart and a hopeful note in the ticket. You will also plan and execute the infrastructure work that keeps those platforms healthy, with Terraform as your native language and change safety as your standing constraint. You will be a core team member of our engineering department, and participate in the on-call rotation, and occasionally join customer conversations when the severity of an issue warrants an engineer in the room.
This role is based in Canada. We support Canadian government customers and commercial customers with Canadian data residency requirements, and this position works directly with those systems and their data.
How you will do it
Application reliability and L3 escalation
Serve as the senior escalation owner for production issues across the OpenBlue Data Platform, our enterprise SaaS products, and Airwall
Debug complex, cross layer failures spanning application code, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and network paths
Lead root cause analysis and drive both interim and permanent corrective action to closure with the owning engineering teams, including the code or configuration change that prevents recurrence
Turn recurring escalations into engineering work by feeding defect patterns, reliability gaps, and supportability problems back into the product backlog
Improve detection ahead of the customer by strengthening instrumentation, monitors, dashboards, and runbooks in Datadog and Grafana
Participate in the on-call rotation and act as a senior technical lead during major incidents
Represent Engineering directly with customers during high severity incidents and post incident reviews when the situation calls for it
Infrastructure and platform engineering
Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades, migrations, and platform changes across Azure and AWS with minimal customer disruption
Own infrastructure as code in Terraform, including module design, state management, and drift remediation
Operate and improve Kubernetes workloads across capacity, autoscaling, resource limits, and deployment reliability
Raise release and change safety, and reduce manual toil through automation
Harden the environments serving government and data residency sensitive customers, partnering with security and compliance on controls and evidence
Set operational standards for observability, change management, and production readiness that other engineering teams adopt
What you will need
Required
Must reside in Canada and be legally authorized to work in Canada without sponsorship. This requirement supports our Canadian government customers and customers with Canadian data residency obligations
7+ years in site reliability engineering, production engineering, L3 application support, or infrastructure engineering
Demonstrated ability to take a complex production problem end to end and land a permanent fix, with examples you can walk through
Strong hands on Terraform, with real production ownership of infrastructure as code
Production experience across Azure and AWS, and with Kubernetes at scale
Practical depth in Datadog and Grafana, covering instrumentation, dashboards, monitor design, and alert quality
Experience with AI native development, knowing when and when not to use harnesses such as Claude, Copilot, Codex, or Cursor as a core part of your workflow
Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and to respond to production incidents outside business hours
Preferred
Working proficiency in Java and C#, sufficient to read, diagnose, and correct application code
Experience supporting government or public sector customers, including data residency, data sovereignty, or Protected B handling requirements
Eligible to obtain Government of Canada security screening at Reliability Status or higher
Experience operating data platforms, including streaming and batch pipelines, data quality monitoring, and latency service level objectives
Familiarity with operational technology networking and zero trust network architecture
Prior experience in an L2 or L3 support organization with formal service level agreements and escalation structures
Exposure to building automation, HVAC, or connected building technology
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Johnson Controls’ Canadian subsidiaries are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants, candidates and employees with disabilities, in accordance with applicable human rights legislation, and in Ontario, in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (“AODA”). When requested, accommodation will be provided throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. To request accommodation, please contact us. Any information you provide related to accommodation measures will be treated as confidential. A copy of Johnson Controls’ applicable AODA policies are available on our website at www.johnsoncontrols.com for your reference, and can be made available in accessible formats upon request.
Skills Required
- Reside in Canada and be legally authorized to work in Canada without sponsorship
- 7+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, production engineering, L3 application support, or infrastructure engineering
- Ability to resolve complex production problems end to end and implement permanent fixes
- Strong hands-on Terraform experience with production infrastructure-as-code ownership
- Production experience with Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes at scale
- Practical experience with Datadog and Grafana, including instrumentation, dashboards, monitors, and alert quality
- Experience with AI-native development workflows and tools such as Claude, Copilot, Codex, or Cursor
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and respond outside business hours
- Working proficiency in Java and C# sufficient to read, diagnose, and correct application code
- Experience supporting government or public sector customers, including data residency, data sovereignty, or Protected B requirements
- Eligible to obtain Government of Canada security screening at Reliability Status or higher
- Experience operating data platforms, including streaming and batch pipelines, data quality monitoring, and latency service level objectives
- Familiarity with operational technology networking and zero trust network architecture
- Prior experience in an L2 or L3 support organization with formal service-level agreements and escalation structures
- Exposure to building automation, HVAC, or connected building technology
Johnson Controls Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Johnson Controls and has not been reviewed or approved by Johnson Controls.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of the package through employer 401(k) matching, repeatedly framed as a strong pillar of the overall rewards mix. The matching contribution is described with specific match levels in multiple places, reinforcing perceived value for long-term saving.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is presented as comparatively robust, with multiple paid holiday categories, vacation time, and sick time described as generous or “amazing” in places. Paid time off breadth appears to be a consistent contributor to total rewards attractiveness beyond base pay.
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Flexible Benefits — Benefits are described as broad and customizable, spanning standard medical/dental/vision plus optional add-ons like pet insurance, identity protection, and legal support. Tuition reimbursement is repeatedly highlighted as a high-value option supporting professional development.
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What We Do
At Johnson Controls, we transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play. From optimizing building performance to improving safety and enhancing comfort, we drive the outcomes that matter most. Dedicated to protecting the environment, we deliver our promise in industries such as healthcare, education, data centers and manufacturing. With a global team of 100,000 experts in more than 150 countries and over 130 years of innovation, we are the power behind our customers’ mission. Our leading portfolio of building technology and solutions includes some of the most trusted names in the industry, such as Tyco®, York®, Metasys®, Ruskin®, Titus®, Frick®, Penn®, Sabroe®, Simplex®, Ansul® and Grinnell®.
