Staff Cloud Platform Engineer
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Job Summary
About Kinaxis
Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech but its really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such were 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 Canadas 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 worlds supply chains to help preserve the planets 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 40000 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
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 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.
Salary Range
Annual cash compensation ranges from $125000 to $175000 plus a discretionary 12% company bonus. The final offer within this range will reflect the successful candidates skills and experience.
Vacancy Status
This is an existing job vacancy
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.
- Lead 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
- Secrets Management: HCP Vault
- Artifact Management: JFrog Artifactory
- Observability: Datadog Prometheus ELK
What we are looking for
- Bachelors degree/diploma in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent related discipline.
- 5 years of experience in increasingly senior and complex cloud engineering roles; high-tech global environment preferred.
- 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.
- Demonstrated technical experience in software development and operations developing infrastructure as code.
- Highly adaptable and able to pivot based on prioritization and needs of the business; proactively solicits and delivers feedback to ensure alignment.
- An articulate and professional communicator with the ability to provide clear concise messaging (verbal and written) to multiple audiences.
- Advanced analytical problem solving and critical thinking skills with the ability to coordinate input from multiple sources to develop impactful recommendations to achieve results for the business.
- Agile and adaptable; excels at managing and prioritizing workloads in an environment of ongoing urgency ambiguity and change.
Ability to find opportunities to accelerate the SDLC through innovative application of AI or other tooling while upholding architecture consistency secure design and code-quality standards.
Ability to reviewAI-generated code rigorously for correctness architectural fit integration risk and edge case support with a growth mindset and bias for experimentation.
Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the worlds supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every daywhen 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 were 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 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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Revolutionize supply chain management with Kinaxis. Get end-to-end transparency to make fast, collaborative decisions with the power of concurrency.
