Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

About Kinaxis

Are you looking to join an innovative, market-leading company where you can truly elevate your career? At Kinaxis we are serious about culture, we are serious about technology, we are serious about customers, and we are serious about not taking ourselves too seriously. If you are looking to be part of an incredible growth story, then we might just be the place for you!

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, 6 global office and a best-in-class HQ in Ottawa, Canada. As winners of several Top Employer awards globally, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.

Kinaxis is a global leader in modern supply chain orchestration, powering complex global supply chains, and supporting the people who manage them. Our powerful, AI infused platform provides full transparency and visibility across end-to-end supply chains, enabling our customers to make faster, better decisions. We are trusted by renowned global brands to provide the agility and predictability needed to navigate today’s volatility and disruption.

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 or Toronto, Canada - Hybrid
Other Canadian locations - Remote

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.

Vacancy Status
This is an existing job vacancy

• Solve complex challenges as a trusted technical lead.
• Drive a Dev Ops 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.

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

• Bachelor's 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…