diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr.yaml b/.github/workflows/pr.yaml
index b8e6bb8bfd69..6c1a402791d3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pr.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr.yaml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ jobs:
       - cudf-polars-polars-tests
       - wheel-build-dask-cudf
       - wheel-tests-dask-cudf
-      - devcontainer
+      - devcontainers-conda
       - unit-tests-cudf-pandas
       - pandas-tests
       - narwhals-tests
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ jobs:
     uses: rapidsai/shared-workflows/.github/workflows/checks.yaml@main
     with:
       enable_check_generated_files: false
-      ignored_pr_jobs: "telemetry-summarize spark-rapids-jni wheel-tests-cudf-polars-with-rapidsmpf"
+      ignored_pr_jobs: "telemetry-summarize spark-rapids-jni wheel-tests-cudf-polars-with-rapidsmpf devcontainers-pip"
   conda-cpp-build:
     needs: checks
     permissions:
@@ -670,8 +670,8 @@ jobs:
       matrix_filter: map(select(.ARCH == "amd64")) | group_by(.CUDA_VER|split(".")|map(tonumber)|.[0]) | map(max_by([(.PY_VER|split(".")|map(tonumber)), (.CUDA_VER|split(".")|map(tonumber))]))
       build_type: pull-request
       script: ci/test_wheel_dask_cudf.sh
-  devcontainer:
-    permissions:
+  devcontainers-conda:
+    permissions: &devcontainers-permissions
       actions: read
       contents: read
       id-token: write
@@ -683,6 +683,7 @@ jobs:
     with:
       arch: '["amd64", "arm64"]'
       cuda: '["13.1"]'
+      python_package_manager: '["conda"]'
       node_type: "cpu8"
       timeout-minutes: 90
       env: |
@@ -693,13 +694,29 @@ jobs:
       # librapidsmpf-cu13 wheels brings in a hardcoded libnuma-dev cmake target: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuCascade/issues/118
       # -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF to match rapidsmpf https://github.com/rapidsai/rapidsmpf/blob/main/.github/workflows/pr.yaml#L351 (leads to compilation errors)
       # -DCUDF_BUILD_TESTUTIL=OFF to avoid IMPORTED_GLOBAL promotion errors when cuCascade's find_package(cudf) loads cudf-config.cmake from a CPM subdirectory
-      build_command: |
+      build_command: &devcontainers-build-command |
         sccache --zero-stats;
         clone-rapidsmpf -j$(nproc) -v -q --branch "$(cat ~/cudf/RAPIDS_BRANCH)" --clone-upstream --depth 1 --single-branch --shallow-submodules;
         if [ "$PYTHON_PACKAGE_MANAGER" = "pip" ]; then rapids-make-pip-env --force; elif [ "$PYTHON_PACKAGE_MANAGER" = "conda" ]; then rapids-make-conda-env --force; fi;
         rapids-generate-scripts;
         build-all -j0 -DBUILD_BENCHMARKS=OFF -DBUILD_NUMA_SUPPORT=OFF -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF -DCUDF_BUILD_TESTUTIL=OFF --verbose 2>&1 | tee telemetry-artifacts/build.log;
         sccache --show-adv-stats | tee telemetry-artifacts/sccache-stats.txt;
+  devcontainers-pip:
+    permissions: *devcontainers-permissions
+    secrets: inherit # zizmor: ignore[secrets-inherit]
+    needs: telemetry-setup
+    uses: rapidsai/shared-workflows/.github/workflows/build-in-devcontainer.yaml@main
+    with:
+      arch: '["amd64", "arm64"]'
+      cuda: '["13.1"]'
+      python_package_manager: '["pip"]'
+      node_type: "cpu8"
+      timeout-minutes: 90
+      env: |
+        SCCACHE_DIST_MAX_RETRIES=inf
+        SCCACHE_SERVER_LOG=sccache=debug
+        SCCACHE_DIST_FALLBACK_TO_LOCAL_COMPILE=false
+      build_command: *devcontainers-build-command
   unit-tests-cudf-pandas:
     needs: [wheel-build-cudf, changed-files]
     permissions: