In this new job I'm also looking up for the devops access (they even have github completely blocked on the corporate network) and I'm hoping I can connect it somehow with VS Code (in the pass one I couldn't)

With jupyter notebooks in a devops perspective you could just build a process to export the notebooks to standard py files and then run them.

There are actually a lot of git hooks that will actually expoet/convert .ipynb to .py files automatically since notebooks don't work great with git.