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.

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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

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 recruitmentprograms@kinaxis.com. 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.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Cloud Security Architect is a subject matter expert responsible for the design and development of all Kinaxis’ Cloud security architecture, while ensuring technology is implemented within frameworks that improve security postures of cloud environments. In this role, you will develop the Cloud security roadmap, and will be responsible for the strategic planning, architecture, and securing of enterprise information systems by identifying network, data, application and platform security requirements, implementing and testing security controls and procedures in a hybrid cloud environment. The Cloud Security Architect’s goal is to tease out security flaws across multiple cloud service providers when information systems interconnect, and complexity forms.
You will support the solution delivered in production environments as required. You will stay abreast of latest technological trends and provide an important role in mentoring and developing team members.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Design secure patterns for workloads deployed on Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service environments as well as hybrid architecture patterns which may tightly integrate to other public clouds or on-premises systems.
• Be a technical security expert to help guide the design of our secure hybrid cloud computing environments required to support our planning and digital supply chain solutions.
• Partner with stakeholders across the organization to plan and manage the cloud security strategy and architecture, establishing governance and facilitating adoption and execution.
• Understand key disciplines within different organizational roles and how they relate to the organization’s cloud security architecture.
• Lead and participate in the selection of cloud security tools and controls, including existing enterprise tools that can extend into the cloud, cloud-native security controls and third-party offerings.
• Provide security guidance to Kinaxis’ Global Information Security Team through technological changes and assist in designing solutions that align with Kinaxis corporate strategies.
• Conduct security assessments of Corporate and Cloud solutions, analyze issues and develop recommendations using Cloud Security benchmarks such as the MCSB, CIS, NIST etc.
• Provide subject matter expertise on public cloud security practices.
• Build and maintain security diagrams, design, and process documents.
• Identify and implement improvements to the Cloud security policies, procedures and affiliated technologies, in order to manage and mitigate key security risks.
• Collaborate across the organization to ensure security risks are promptly identified, critically assessed and mitigated in adherence to defined objectives.
• Understand potential and emerging information security threats and vulnerabilities and communicate this information to appropriate team members throughout the organization on a timely basis.
• Design solutions that support and enable Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan objectives.
• Work closely with all domain architects to ensure cloud security requirements are adopted to all cloud solutions and initiatives.
• Accountable for ensuring the design of all Cloud Systems solutions meets the appropriate security and compliance requirements.

Role Specific Skills and Qualifications-

• Familiarity with IT Governance, data governance, architecture, and security frameworks such as ISO27001, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, COBIT, SABSA, TOGAF, MITRE, OWASP, CIS.
• Experience performing threat modeling and design reviews to evaluate the introduction of new technologies’ security implications and requirements.
• Great understanding of SSE, CASB, CSPM, CNAPP and CWPP tools; knowledge of cloud security frameworks, standards and best practices; and working with cloud IAM and IaaS, PaaS and SaaS native security capabilities.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing secure cloud architectures with a focus on infrastructure automation using Terraform, container security within orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible etc.), AI architecture, Secrets & Key management and establishing governance models to enforce security policies and regulatory compliance.
• Experience with network technologies (firewall, switches, router, load balancers).
• Experience with backend and API development (Python, Java, Go, etc.).
• Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills