What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Engineer position at Northern Base?
Role: Platform Engineer
Location: Sunrise, FL (Onsite)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Visa Type: USC / GC Only
✅ Must-Have Qualifications:
✔ 8–12 years of overall IT experience with 8 years of Platform Engineering / DevOps experience
✔ Strong expertise in Python for platform automation, API development, scripting, and engineering tooling
✔ Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including cluster administration, networking, RBAC, storage, security, Helm, and troubleshooting
✔ Proven experience implementing GitOps using Argo CD and/or FluxCD for automated infrastructure and application deployments
✔ Strong experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD, Docker, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and release automation
✔ Experience building and managing Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and enhancing Developer Experience (DevEx) using Backstage, self-service portals, reusable templates, and developer automation
✔ Hands-on experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud-native architectures
✔ Strong knowledge of observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/OpenSearch, and distributed tracing solutions
✔ Experience implementing DevSecOps best practices, Kubernetes security, secrets management, and Policy-as-Code using OPA or Kyverno
✔ Experience building scalable, resilient, highly available platform services with a strong focus on automation, reliability, and operational excellence
✔ Strong experience automating infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Pulumi, or similar Infrastructure as Code tools
✔ Ability to design, build, troubleshoot, and optimize secure cloud-native platforms and CI/CD pipelines
✔ Strong analytical, scripting, troubleshooting, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
⭐ Nice-to-Have Skills:
✔ Experience with Platform Engineering best practices and Developer Portals
✔ Knowledge of enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure and microservices architecture
✔ Experience with compliance automation and security governance in Kubernetes environments
✔ Experience supporting high-availability production environments and SRE practices