Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

About Kinaxis

Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but it’s really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, we’re serious about your career growth and professional development, because People matter at Kinaxis.  

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa. As one of Canada’s Top Employers, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.

At Kinaxis, we power the world’s supply chains to help preserve the planet’s resources and enrich the human experience. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries, with more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries. We are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

Location

Ottawa, Canada -Hybrid

Other Canadian locations- Remote

About The Team

Imperative Orchestration, Declarative Automation - The Cloud Platform Engineering Team is responsible for building and running a cloud platform that enables delivery teams to self-service deployments with reduced lead time and complexity. We also provide cloud services and tools that enable internal development teams to build, test and deploy their applications using modern platform tooling like CI/CD pipelines, Terraform and Kubernetes delivery via ArgoCD. These same tools we leverage to ensure our customer environments are automated and continuously up to date. We are passionate about code and the power of automation to simplify complex processes.

As a Senior Staff Cloud Platform Engineer you will play a critical role in advancing our cloud platform capabilities and delivering exceptional experiences to our development and operations teams.

What you will do

• Solve complex challenges as a trusted technical lead.
• Drive a DevOps mindset and collaboration within the Cloud Platform Engineering Team.
• Develop and enhance cloud reference architectures and guide teams on implementation.
• Participate in architectural decisions, improve CI/CD pipelines, and build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to streamline delivery processes, enhance services, and provide a seamless experience through self-service and modern approaches.
• Mentor and lead team members to achieve excellence in industry best practices.
• Leading code and design reviews for high-quality deliverables.
• Stay up to date with the latest cloud technologies and trends.
  
  

Technologies we use

• Cloud Service Providers: Azure, GCP & AWS
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
• Configuration Management: Ansible
• Container Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
• CI/CD Solutions: GitHub Actions, Argo CD
• Platform Orchestration: Cloudify
• Secrets Management: HCP Vault
• Artifact Management: JFrog Artifactory
• Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, ELK
  
  

What we are looking for

• Bachelor’s/Master's degree in Engineering with specialization in Computer Science or related discipline or demonstrated equivalent experience.
• 7 to 10 years of experience with enterprise architecture in a cloud computing environment.
• Extensive experience with public cloud platforms, both console and API (GCP preferred).
• Experience automating cloud solutions (e.g., applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, and data).
• Experience developing in Go, Python and Shell/Bash.
• Strong knowledge of system design to manage operational and reliability trade-offs.
• Practical understanding of agile methodologies and Scrum.
  
  

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Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day—when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.

Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Yamaha, P&G, Honda, and more.

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to net-zero operations strategy for the long term. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.

People matter at Kinaxis and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:

• Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the last Friday of every month)
• Flexible work options
• Physical and mental well-being programs
• Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
• Mentorship programs and training and career development
• Recognition programs and referral rewards
• Hackathons
  
  

Kinaxis welcomes candidates to apply to our inclusive community. We provide accommodations upon request to ensure fairness and accessibility throughout our recruitment process for all candidates, including those with specific needs or disabilities. If you require an accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected]. Please note that this contact information is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used to inquire about application statuses.

Kinaxis is committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process. We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the initial step of the recruitment process to compare submitted resumes against the job description, to identify candidates whose education, experience and skills most closely match the requirements of the role. After the initial screening, all subsequent decisions regarding your application, including final selection, are made by our human recruitment team. AI does not make any final hiring decisions.