Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

About Kinaxis Are you looking to join an innovative, market-leading company where you can truly elevate your career? At Kinaxis we are serious about culture, we are serious about technology, we are serious about customers, and we are serious about not taking ourselves too seriously. If you are looking to be part of an incredible growth story, then we might just be the place for you! 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, 6 global office and a best-in-class HQ in Ottawa, Canada. As winners of several Top Employer awards globally, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today. Kinaxis is a global leader in modern supply chain orchestration, powering complex global supply chains, and supporting the people who manage them. Our powerful, AI infused platform provides full transparency and visibility across end-to-end supply chains, enabling our customers to make faster, better decisions. We are trusted by renowned global brands to provide the agility and predictability needed to navigate today’s volatility and disruption. 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 Chennai, India About the team The Senior Cloud Engineer, as a fully proficient seasoned professional, contributes to the software development lifecycle process for the cloud platform. This includes design, implementation, testing, and troubleshooting features of advanced complexity that span multiple teams. The incumbent will support solutions delivered in production environments as required. The successful candidate actively mentors junior engineers, serves as a technical advisor to managers and team leads, and acts as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in one or more domains. The role requires close collaboration with internal engineering and product teams to develop, maintain, and enhance cloud platform solutions. What you will do Lead, collaborate, and coordinate across multiple teams as a technical primary on assigned features to clarify problems and proactively develop long-term solutions. Ensure requirements are met, and implementation, execution, and testing are delivered with excellence. Design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and automation frameworks. Contribute to and support the production SaaS ecosystem, ensuring solutions are designed and implemented with operability, security, performance, scalability, and availability in mind. Follow the software development lifecycle to translate business and technical requirements into infrastructure as code. Build and enhance CI/CD platforms, deployment pipelines, and self-service capabilities to improve developer productivity, platform reliability, and operational efficiency. Implement code of advanced complexity that spans multiple areas of functionality with performance and testability in mind. Apply software engineering principles to operational challenges with a focus on automation, security, self-healing, and monitoring solutions. Troubleshoot issues within the cloud platform, identify defects, provide explanations for platform behavior across multiple components, and recommend solutions and workarounds for engineering teams. Resolve and test moderate to advanced defects. Contribute to the development and maintenance of dashboards, reports, and metrics to track platform health, cloud usage, and costs. Drive process improvement initiatives focused on reliability and cost optimization. Operate in a security and regulated environment by applying best practices for IAM, role-based access controls, network security, vulnerability management, environment isolation, and compliance requirements. Technologies we use GCP, Azure, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions Docker Packer GKE AKS Kubernetes Helm HashiCorp Vault Python Go Shell/Bash JFrog Artifactory Datadog Prometheus ELK Windows Server Argo CD Capsule Workload Identity Federation Auth0 Entra ID Okta Patchman Rundeck Aptly JIRA ServiceNow What we are looking for Bachelor's degree/diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent related discipline. 7+ years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or a related field. Strong experience designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code. Experience working with public cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, with GCP preferred. Proficiency with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, and automation tooling. Experience developing automation solutions and tooling using Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages. Solid understanding of identity and access management, networking, security, and cloud governance best practices. Experience troubleshooting complex platform and infrastructure issues in production environments. Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and security teams. Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical knowledge sharing within a team environment. Familiarity with Agile methodologies and Scrum practices. Working knowledge of Windows Server administration, automation, and lifecycle management is considered an asset. Kinaxis product knowledge is considered an asset. Nice to Have GCP Landing Zone or Azure enterprise-scale architecture experience NetApp CVS / cloud storage volume configuration Capsule multi-tenancy for Kubernetes namespace management Image security scanning — Trivy, SBOM, cosign signing RapidResponse or supply chain platform exposure Windows Server enterprise environment experience Aptly Debian package