DevOps Architect

The Kinaxis DevOps team develops tools and frameworks that automate the process of building, testing, distributing, and monitoring RapidResponse solutions. We work with distributed systems that run on clusters of machines. We connect R&D, IT and support teams to drive greater efficiency.  We work with a wide range of technologies and languages including Jenkins, GHE, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, Elastic, SonarQube, Groovy, PowerShell, .NET Core/C#, ASP.NET Core/MVC.

Role Description:

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.

Job location:  Ottawa, Ontario, CA- Hybrid

Key Functions:

• 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.
• 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 and understanding how to use them to drive 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 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 initiative 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.

Experience:

• Experience in developing and designing solutions for a SaaS deployment platform, including orchestration of large number of components in a complex and high-velocity environment.
  
  
• Extensive experience with orchestration related technologies:
  Containers on Linux and Windows
  Kubernetes
• Experience with CI tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform to automate infrastructure.
• Experience with version control tools such as Git, Subversion, etc.
• Experience with API and Micro-service driven coding methodologies and coding practices
• Experience with unit test frameworks and integration testing at scale

• Well-versed with modern SaaS technologies such as:
  Experience with network technologies such as : Load-balancers like the F5 and Nginx & Firewall rules, routing rules
  Experience with others common SaaS technologies like databases, virtualization, encryption, configuration management, application, and system provisioning.

• Experience with artifact repositories such as Artifactory, Nexus, etc.

• System administrator skillset with hybrid environment (Linux/Windows) an asset.

• Experience with object Storage and S3 REST API, threading, and performance tuning

Qualifications:

• BS or BA in Computer Science, Information Systems, or demonstrated equivalent experience.
• 10 – 15 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.