Staff Cloud Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

Job summary

Kinaxis is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate resilient systems across cloud environments. This role involves developing and maintaining automation, owning the lifecycle of production and hands-on lab environments, participating in on-call rotation, and providing technical guidance to other engineers. The successful candidate will work closely with Product, Security, Platform, and Support teams, driving an automation-first approach.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master's degree in Engineering with specialization in Computer Science or related discipline or demonstrated equivalent experience
• Prior experience in development and operational roles
• 5+ years of experience managing production systems in GCP, Azure, or AWS
• 5+ years of experience developing managed solutions including Configuration management (Ansible), Infrastructure management (Terraform), and CI/CD solutions (ArgoCD)
• 5+ years of experience developing in scripting languages: Python, PowerShell, Bash
• Knowledge of containers and orchestrators: Kubernetes, Helm
• Ability to share knowledge with others in the company
• Proactive communication and documentation skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Responsibilities

• Build and operate production systems that meet SLA targets and support customer workloads at scale
• Develop and maintain automation across multiple public clouds (Azure, GCP, datacenters), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), deployment pipelines (GitHub Actions, Terraform), and scripting languages (Ansible, Python, PowerShell, Bash)
• Own the lifecycle of production and hands-on lab environments, including deployment, resource management, incident triage, and troubleshooting
• Participate in on-call rotation, resolving incidents and driving root cause analysis and long-term fixes
• Work closely with Product, Platform, and Support teams and take ownership of complex operational problems, improving how the platform runs over time
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers, helping improve how the team designs, builds, and operates systems

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