At a Glance
- Tasks: Maintain and modernize critical applications in transportation and logistics.
- Company: Join Canadian Tire, a trusted leader in retail innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and career growth opportunities.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace with a commitment to employee well-being.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on essential systems while working with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: 8+ years in software engineering and strong troubleshooting skills required.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 131000 $ per year.
As a Platform Engineer supporting Transportation Systems, you will be responsible for maintaining, enhancing, supporting, and modernizing business-critical enterprise applications across transportation, logistics, supply chain, and customs. You will be a senior hands-on technical contributor focused on system stability, production support, application development, and the ongoing modernization of legacy technology platforms. You will work across a diverse technology landscape, balancing day-to-day operational support with longer-term technical improvements, lifecycle upgrades, and modernization initiatives.
Your responsibilities include:
- Developing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and enhancing custom-developed enterprise applications and supporting components.
- Investigating complex production incidents, performing root cause analysis, and implementing sustainable solutions to recurring issues.
- Delivering application changes through development, testing, deployment, and production implementation activities.
- Analyzing application performance, reliability, and operational issues and identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Supporting database, operating system, middleware, framework, and application lifecycle upgrades.
- Providing Level 3 application support for business-critical transportation, logistics, supply chain, and customs systems.
- Contributing to application modernization initiatives including technology refreshes, technical debt reduction, platform migration, and architectural improvements.
- Maintaining technical documentation, application inventories, support procedures, operational runbooks, and troubleshooting documentation.
- Leading and participating in knowledge transfer activities to improve team supportability and reduce dependency on individual subject-matter experts.
- Collaborating with SRE, Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, Database, and vendor teams to resolve issues and deliver technical improvements.
What You Bring:
- 8+ years of software engineering, application development, or production application support experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Oracle databases, SQL and PL/SQL, including troubleshooting, query analysis, and performance tuning.
- Strong hands-on Unix/Linux experience, including Bash scripting, with the ability to troubleshoot applications, processes, scripts, jobs, and production issues.
- Experience developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Java applications, including legacy Java technologies such as Struts, as well as Spring Framework / Spring Boot.
- Strong production application support experience, including incident investigation, debugging, root cause analysis, and problem resolution.
- Experience across the full application lifecycle, including development, testing, deployment, production support, upgrades, and modernization.
- Experience with C#/.NET and SSIS or similar enterprise application and integration technologies.
- Experience supporting batch processing, scheduled jobs, integrations, and file transfers such as SFTP/FTP.
- Experience with application servers and middleware technologies such as Apache Tomcat.
- Experience working with highly available, business-critical enterprise applications.
- Experience with transportation, logistics, supply chain, warehouse, or customs technology is an asset.
- Exposure to Azure, CI/CD, DevOps, React/Angular, and cloud modernization is an asset.
- Experience with technologies such as AIX/KSH, enterprise job schedulers, or C/Pro* is an asset.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and technical documentation skills.
We’re always looking for great talent! In addition to competitive pay, we offer comprehensive benefits and retirement programs, performance incentives, continuing education programs, and other perks to support your well-being. Career growth opportunities and product discounts are also available.
Platform Engineer, Transportation Systems employer: Canadian Tire Corporation
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