Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering

Kinaxis; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is on the lookout for a Senior Cloud Services Engineer to join their innovative team. This role focuses on enhancing cloud infrastructure and services, ensuring they are secure and scalable. You'll engage with various stakeholders to drive quality and performance, while leading a diverse team. With a commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, this role offers a chance to make a significant impact in the world of supply chain management. If you're passionate about cloud technologies and looking to grow your career, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible vacations

Work options

Well-being programs

Fitness classes

Mentorship

Recognition

Hackathons

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in building cloud-native platforms.
• 3+ years leading teams with operational support rotation.
• Experience delivering managed SaaS services.

Responsibilities

• Engage and influence best practices in Cloud Platform Engineering.
• Drive quality accountability and lead effective postmortems.
• Propose improvements to cloud management architecture.

Skills

Cloud Platform Engineering

Capacity Planning

Performance Analysis

Agile/SCRUM

Cloud Security

Team Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Management of Information Systems

Software Engineering

Security

Tools

Amazon AWS

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Job description

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.

Location

Our office in Ottawa, Canada

About the team

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.

What you will do

• 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.
• Define and report progress on strategic initiatives and project-level tasks to all stakeholders, including senior executives and clients, using effective communication approaches.
• 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 coordinate the development of new or enhanced cloud capabilities based on customer needs, 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 cloud solutions follow established security and compliance controls.
• Stay abreast of current and emerging cloud technologies and industry trends as a thought leader.
• Provide leadership, coaching, guidance, and development to the Cloud Services team of diverse skill sets and roles.

Technologies we use

• Designing and building multi-tenant IaaS and PaaS cloud solutions on Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud platforms.
• Cloud-native solution design patterns (microservices, messaging, distributed caching, containers, etc.)
• Agile/SCRUM methodologies.
• Infrastructure as code development with tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.

What we are looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management of Information Systems, Software Engineering, Security, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience building resilient, highly available, and scalable cloud-native platforms in a high-tech, global organization.
• 3+ years leading teams with operational on-call support rotation.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, data, and application services.
• Experience leading technical project teams, providing direction, and setting and reporting objectives.
• Experience delivering managed SaaS services to enterprise customers.

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Work With Impact: Our platform helps power the world’s supply chains, with visible impacts like stocked store shelves and available medications.

Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Our clients include Lockheed Martin, Yamaha, P&G, Honda, and more.

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives focus on fair hiring, unconscious bias training, and community involvement. We are committed to sustainability and net-zero operations.

People matter at Kinaxis. Our perks include flexible vacations, work options, well-being programs, fitness classes, mentorship, recognition, and hackathons.

We welcome all candidates and provide accommodations upon request. For accessibility needs, contact [e-mail]. Our recruitment process uses AI tools for initial screening, with final decisions made by our human team, ensuring fairness and transparency.