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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.
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Our office in Ottawa, Canada
About the teamAs the Cloud Deployment Specialist you will be part of the Product Verification team. The Product Verification (PV) team is responsible for end-to-end software deployments and configurations on cloud using modern platform tooling.
This is the only team within R&D that performs the deployment of all software solutions. This means there is a great deal of collaboration with all development teams and the opportunity to work with a variety of tools. We are looking for talented, innovation driven people to join our growing team.
What you will do- Ensure that all required environments necessary to complete end-to-end and performance testing of features and solutions are built to specifications and maintained/upgraded as needed to ensure successful running of all regression suites.
- Collaborate with PV teams to gather requirements, with Development teams to ensure requirements are understood, and with the Cloud Services teams as necessary to ensure successful implementation of those requirements.
- Maintain a keen focus on maximizing efficiencies (time and cost).
- Deploy E2E environments using modern platform tooling like Jenkins/Git CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Argo CD and Ansible, and ensure deployment automation validation is done for our evolving software stack.
- 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
- Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, ELK
- Degree or Diploma in Computer Science
- 4+ years of experience with architecture and deployment of Cloud Services
- 4+ years of experience with deployment of AKS/GKE clusters
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- Public cloud platforms, both console and API (GCP, Azure, or AWS)
- General administration of public cloud
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Configuration management tools (Ansible)
- CI/CD solutions (Git, GitOps, Argo CD)
- Containers and orchestrators (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
- Tools such as Cloudify, Kafka, Jenkins
- HELM charts’ authoring
- Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies
- Demonstrated ability to monitor and manage cloud spend
- Understanding of agile methodologies and Scrum, and experience working on cross-functional scrum teams
- Ability to share with and/or absorb knowledge from others in the team and company
- In-depth and proactive communication and documentation skills
- Initiative and ability to work independently, as well as part of a team
Nice to haves:
- System monitoring and centralized logging platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK)
- Practical experience in building and managing applications and microservices
- Network administration awareness
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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
For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com. Kinaxis strongly encourages diverse candidates to apply to our welcoming community. We strive to make our website and application process accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us at recruitmentprograms@kinaxis.com. This contact information is for accessibility requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
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.
