Location

Ottawa, Canada - In office

Other Canadian locations- Remote

The Cloud Services team is responsible for the strategic direction, delivery, and evolution of our cloud infrastructure and services to support internal and external customers. We work collaboratively across departments to ensure our cloud solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with business needs. Our team partners with stakeholders in IT, Security, and R&D to execute cloud strategies that enable innovation and performance at every stage of the cloud service lifecycle. We focus on both driving future advancements and maintaining our existing cloud services to meet the evolving demands of our users and the industry. 

• Engage, influence, and evangelize Cloud Platform Engineering (CPE) best practices with development, operations, and product groups to align technology with service/solution delivery. 

• Drive quality accountability within the organization with well-defined processes, metrics, and goals for process quality. This includes leading effective postmortems and ensuring follow-up actions are completed.  

• Drive capacity planning, performance analysis, instrumentation, and other non-functional systems requirements.   

• Must be able to define and report progress on strategic initiatives and project level tasks to all stakeholders including senior executives, clients and use effective communication approaches with each constituency.   

• Propose improvements to the enterprise cloud management platform’s hub and spoke architecture, strategic approaches, and related security governance based on continual review and evaluation of enterprise cloud consumption trends across internal and external business lines.  

• Collect business security requirements and centrally coordinate the development of new or enhanced cloud capabilities based on customer need, firm standards, and compliance requirements.  

• Work with peers to automate and build tailored solutions with repeatable patterns that can be leveraged across business and IT solutions.   

• Ensure that cloud solutions follow established security and compliance controls.   

• Be a thought leader by staying abreast of current and emerging cloud technologies and industry trends.  

• Provide leadership, coaching, guidance, and development to the team of Cloud Services professionals of diverse skill sets and roles.  

• Experience designing and building multi-tenant IaaS and PaaS cloud solutions on either Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud platforms.   

• Experience with cloud-native solution design patterns (microservices, messaging, distributed caching, containers etc.)  

• Extensive understanding of Agile/SCRUM methodologies. 

• Experience with infrastructure as code development along with configuration management and orchestration tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.   

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management of Information Systems, Software Engineering, Security, or equivalent professional experience   

• 5+ years of experience building resilient, highly available and scalable cloud native platforms and solutions in a high-tech, global organization.  

• 3+ years of experience leading teams with an operational on-call support rotation  

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, data, and application services.   

• Experience leading technical project teams, providing direction and setting and reporting on clear objectives.  

• Experience leading delivery of managed SaaS services to enterprise customers. 

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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.