Senior Platform Engineer

Plusgrade•Montreal, QC

28d

About The Position

Travel is not just about the destination; it's about every memory made along the way. We are dedicated to shaping the future of travel by partnering with 200+ airline, hospitality, cruise, passenger rail, and financial services companies to create new, meaningful revenue streams through incredible customer experiences. Rooted in our core values of being ambitious, innovative, and collaborative, we are driven to continuously raise the bar, exceed expectations, and bring out the best in everyone, fostering a culture where we believe we are better together, working towards an extraordinary future in travel. Come help us transform everyday travel into extraordinary experiences. About the role We are looking for a Platform engineer to join our Platform Engineering team for a permanent position. Weâre an industry-leading organization continuously reshaping how consumers interact with their loyalty programs. We work with the worldâs largest airline, hotel, financial, and retail rewards programs, to tackle complex challenges and come up with innovative e-commerce solutions. If youâd like to be a part of it, weâd love to hear from you. Weâre building out our next-generation infrastructure here at Plusgrade and leveraging automation to maintain and improve our current platforms and processes. Weâre looking for a smart and enthusiastic person with a passion for operations to help take our infrastructure to the next level. If you love working in an open, highly collaborative environment making awesome software, then Points is the place for you.

Requirements

Strong proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with IaC, automation/configuration management (Terraform, Ansible or Pulumi) in the Cloud (AWS, Azure or GCP)
Able to diagnose and troubleshoot issues within the Linux operating system
Comfortable coding in one of: Python, Go or JavaScript
Networking concepts: firewalls, NAT, subnetting, ports, VPC, VPNs
Security-first mindset: implement industry best practices for system hardening, configuration management, and automation solutions for development, testing and deployment to production environments
Comfortable with Git or other source code management systems
Familiar with the CI/CD (Gitlab nice to have)
Good understanding of Platform engineering and DevSecOps practices
Strong communication and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

Work closely with the Team Lead and lead key epics within the team
Mentor, coach other platform engineers in the team
Propose innovations, solutions within the team, to external stakeholders and lead these solutions to production
Be part of the team to architect, build & migrate our next-generation infrastructure based on Kubernetes (on-prem) to the Cloud
Migrate internal microservices and data services to this new infrastructure
Build and support CI/CD pipelines (we use GitLab) to meet security & software compliance and improve observability of the system through monitoring and alerting
Manage & build our tooling in Python, GoLang and NodeJs
Constantly evaluate & improve our current infrastructure
Support and work alongside Engineering teams and Operations
Advocate for Platform within the organization - this includes people, process and technology.