Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering

At Kinaxis, who we are is grounded in our common belief that people matter. Each one of us plays an important part in accomplishing our work, building our culture and making a global impact.

Every day, we’re empowered to work together to help our customers make fast, confident planning decisions. This is how we create a better planet – for each other, for our customers and for generations to come. Our cloud-based platform RapidResponse ensures that the products we need – everything from medicine and cars, to day-to-day items like toothpaste – make it to market and into our hands when we need them with minimal ecological footprint.

We make the world better, and you can too.

Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering

As a manager in Cloud Platform Engineering, you will lead and collaborate with your Development peers, Site Reliability Engineering and Customer Support teams to ensure our product can be deployed, upgraded and monitored at scale. You will solicit feedback from your partners and iterate to deliver better solutions with industry best practices in mind. You will collaborate with the other teams to ensure development teams can deliver rapidly in a self-serve way.

Job Location: (Ottawa, Ontario, CA - Hybrid; Other Canadian Locations - Remote)

Your Responsibilities will include

• Ownership of many of the key technologies in the software stack related to CI / CD
• Work in an agile form to prioritize, commit and deliver business value
• Be the organizational champion for the support, operations and customer IT personas
• Help to consolidate on a common set of configuration management tools and provide patterns for development teams to deploy and be self-sufficient
• Detail-oriented with an analytical focus at problem solving
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Partner with our SRE team to ensure they can operate our cloud environments, and seamlessly deploy, monitor and support our customer environments.
• Attract and develop talent
• Drive for automation and self-serve for many R&D operational imperatives
• Planning and delivery using agile methodology and tools
• Demonstrate initiative, assess priorities, see projects through to completion and meet deadlines and communicate when delays occur

Qualifications

• Experience of SaaS/Cloud application deployment models
• Experience with Azure, GCP and / or AWS
• Minimum 3 years in an R&D management role
• BSc Computer Science or equivalent
• Experience with Kubernetes, Orchestration, Infrastructure-as-Code
• Dynamic leader with excellent communication skills, adaptability, initiative, and collaborative spirit
• Minimum 3 years of experience in software delivery to public cloud
• Experience with large-scale, distributed web architectures
• Experience in Agile software development methodology
• Experience delivering software compliance solution (eg. SOC, HIPAA)

What we have to offer

• Global Impact - As a global team spanning continents, boundaries, and cultures, every day we are inspired by the impact our work has on our colleagues, our customers, our communities, and the world at large.
• Challenging Work - We love solving highly complex problems. And as the global leaders in our industry, we never stop innovating—our work is never “done. That’s because across our teams and in all roles, every employee is empowered to bring their best ideas forward and to jump in and solve the problems they’re passionate about.
• Great People - We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously! It’s in our DNA to celebrate, laugh, and have fun. We are stronger, together, when we are open, honest, and above all, real. Every person is valued here and plays an important role in our shared success.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Diversity, equity and inclusion are more than words to us. They are the guiding principles for building a culture where we celebrate each others’ differences, continuously strive for equality and recognize that inclusion makes us stronger as individuals, a company and a global citizen.

For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com/ .

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