Software Developer, Kinaxis

Company	Kinaxis
Job title	Software Developer 2, Cloud Deployment Specialist
Job location	Ottawa, ON, Canada
Type	Full Time

Responsibilities:

Ensure that all required environments necessary to complete end-to-end and performance testing of features and solutions are built to specifications and maintained/upgraded as needed to ensure the successful running of all regression suites.
Collaborate with PV teams to gather requirements, with Development teams to ensure requirements are understood, and with the Cloud Services teams as necessary to ensure successful implementation of those requirements.
Maintain a keen focus on maximizing efficiencies (time and cost).
Deploy E2E environments using modern platform tooling like Jenkins/Git CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Argo CD, and Ansible, and ensure deployment automation validation is done for our evolving software stack.

Degree or Diploma in Computer Science
4+ years of experience with architecture and deployment of Cloud Services
4+ years of experience with the deployment of AKS/GKE clusters
Strong hands-on experience with:
- Public cloud platforms, both console and API (GCP, Azure, or AWS)
- General administration of public cloud
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Configuration management tools (Ansible)
- CI/CD solutions (Git, GitOps, Argo CD)
- Containers and orchestrators (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
- Tools such as Cloudify, Kafka, Jenkins
- HELM charts’ authoring
Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies
Demonstrated ability to monitor and manage cloud spend
Understanding of agile methodologies and Scrum, and experience working on cross-functional scrum teams
Ability to share with and/or absorb knowledge from others in the team and company
In-depth and proactive communication and documentation skills
Initiative and ability to work independently, as well as part of a team

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