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
  Why join Kinaxis?:
  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.

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.