Job Specifications
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
our office in Ottawa, Canada (Hybrid)
About The Team
The Kinaxis DevOps team develops tools and frameworks that automate the process of building, testing, distributing, and monitoring RapidResponse solutions. We work with distributed systems that run on clusters of machines. We connect R&D, IT and support teams to drive greater efficiency. We work with a wide range of technologies and languages including Jenkins, GHE, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, AI, Data dog, Elastic, SonarQube, Groovy, Go, PowerShell, .NET Core/C#, ASP.NET Core/MVC etc.
What you will do
As DevOps Architect, you will drive the design, shape and direction of our release management pipeline. This includes taking on a technical leadership role to define and implement new approaches to enable adoption of cloud services (public, private and hybrid) and the associated shifts in processes for development, business and IT. You will also be responsible for shaping the development environment and deployment of our cloud-native distributed backend solution.
Oversee design activities relating to maintenance and operations of a secure, efficient, reliable, distributed deployment solution. Provide code for the foundational infrastructure needed to enable these solutions.
Explore and prototype new technologies to resolve deployment bottlenecks and inefficiencies for cloud-native, distributed solutions.
Ensure development teams have access to the right tools by leading the adoption/creation of tooling and processes. The ultimate goal is a fully-automated release management pipeline that includes automated builds, environment creation, validation, deployment, and production monitoring.
Work in close collaboration with development teams to ensure proposed designs are compatible with production environments and practices.
Leverage a deep understanding of IaaS and PaaS services offered on cloud platforms to drive the technology changes required to support product architecture initiatives.
Provide options for new technology adoption into the organization to strengthen the operational efficiency of our engineering activities. Act as the technical point of contact for vendors before and after adoption.
Provide technical leadership across teams to refine initiatives into well-documented epics and stories that remove ambiguity by clearly articulating functional and nonfunctional system behavior expectations and design objectives.
Develop accurate cost and effort estimates as part of planning cycles to help the teams providing development support to prioritize and make scoping decisions.
Collaborate with other members of the product development team, architects and product managers to define dependencies and priorities.
Ensure that all deployed solutions follow security and compliance controls.
Provide technical and professional guidance, review, and coach DevOps Engineers to support their professional growth.
What we are looking for
Experience in developing and designing solutions for a SaaS deployment platform, including orchestration of large number of components in a complex and high-velocity environment.
Extensive experience with orchestration-related technologies: Containers on Linux and Windows/ Kubernetes
Experience with CI tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.
Experience with Ansible, Terraform to automate infrastructure.
Experience with version control tools such as Git, Subversion, etc.
Experience with API and Micro-service driven coding methodologies and coding practices
Experience with unit test frameworks and integration testing at scale
Experience with network technologies: Load-balancers like F5 and Nginx/ Firewall rules, routing rules
Experience with other common SaaS technologies like databases, virtualization, encryption, configuration management, application, and system provisioning.
Experience with artifact repositories such as Artifactory, Nexus, etc.
System administrator s