Architect, DevOps
Architect, DevOps
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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
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# 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 skillset with hybrid environment (Linux/Windows) is an asset.
- Experience with object Storage and S3 REST API threading and performance tuning
- Enthusiastic advocate for use of AI to drive efficiency
Qualifications:
- BS or BA in Computer Science Information Systems or demonstrated equivalent experience.
- 10 years of relevant experience
- Minimum 5 years of experience with Cloud / SaaS Orchestration.
- Minimum 5 years of experience programming and/or scripting with .NET- or a JVM-based language such as C# Groovy Java etc.
- Minimum 3 years of experience with implementing monitoring & alerting systems (Datadog Prometheus).
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
- Strong written verbal and interpersonal communication skills
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.
Employment Type
Full-Time
