Senior Platform Engineer
About The Position
Points North is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who is ready to do work that is both foundational and forward-looking. This role will help support multiple products, some legacy and some brand new. The right person will see this role as an opportunity to enable us to scale while working on a critical platform that is used every day by real people to get their work done. This role will be working both on stabilizing and hardening what exists today and working with our development teams to empower them to manage the operational health of their applications, their telemetry, their alerting, their performance, their scaling. The goal is not a platform where you are the bottleneck. It is a platform so well-built and well-documented that teams can run confidently on their own. If you are the kind of engineer who gets energized by bringing structure and reliability to complex cloud infrastructure, who sees a modernization challenge as an opportunity rather than a warning sign, and who genuinely enjoys making other engineers more effective, we are excited to talk to you!
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, site reliability, or cloud infrastructure role.
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure including compute, networking, storage, identity, and security.
- Proficiency with Azure Bicep and/or ARM templates for infrastructure-as-code.
- Solid experience with Azure DevOps, including YAML pipelines, repos, and artifact management.
- Experience building or significantly maturing an observability practice; Datadog experience is a strong plus.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex, distributed system performance issues from first principles.
- Strong written communication; you have written documentation and runbooks that people read and follow.
- Comfortable working as a close partner to software development teams, not as a separate ops function.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling, or a strong desire to do so for the first time.
Responsibilities
- Automate the Azure infrastructure powering our products from end-to-end.
- Harden what exists, modernize what needs it, and build new infrastructure the right way from the start using Bicep and ARM templates.
- Build and mature our DataDog implementation including how we are using it, not just configuration.
- Ensure our Azure environment, pipelines, and application follow security best practices and that those practices are baked into how we build.
- Standardize what "healthy" looks like for our systems and make sure we always have the measurement and alerting to know when it is not.
- Own the reliability and effectiveness of our Azure DevOps pipelines across build, test, and deployment and partner closely with development teams to make the pipeline experience faster and less painful for everyone.
- Build self-service tools, standards, and documentation that allow development teams to instrument their applications, set up their own monitors, and manage their own operational health without routing everything through you.
- Lead performance investigations and own post-incident reviews and drive the systemic improvements that prevent the same incident from happening twice.
- Act as a consultant and coach to development teams on cloud best practices, security, reliability patterns, and observability.
- Informally mentor engineers across the organization, raising the overall platform and reliability knowledge of the team over time.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- Employer-matching contributions to a SIMPLE Traditional and/or ROTH IRA plan
- Generous PTO, paid holidays, and Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
- Professional development opportunities (training, certifications)
- Remote or hybrid arrangements may be made available
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
