Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

The Company

NorthMark Strategies is a leading investment firm, combining capital, innovation, and engineering to drive long-term value. From operating complex businesses to backing breakthrough technologies, our mission is to build enduring businesses. Our team combines intelligent risk-taking, operational excellence, exceptional talent, and world-class computing capacity to create shareholder value.

Our company offers a dynamic environment where individuals have the freedom to lead companies toward bold achievements by embracing innovation, leveraging technology, and fostering differentiated business strategies. Our values are Integrity, Ability, and Energy, and the company aims to hire individuals who possess those qualities.

At NorthMark Strategies, we believe the future isn’t something to hope for, it’s something to build. We don’t just invest, we create. Bringing together strategic insight and technical horsepower to deliver outcomes that endure.

The Position

We are actively seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering Team based in Dallas, TX. This role requires a seasoned expert with deep knowledge in cloud architecture, best practices, and enterprise-wide technology integration. The successful candidate will design and implement robust cloud observability solutions and policies that meet both current and future needs of our diverse business units and help keep our cloud platforms safe and secure.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy cloud solutions in alignment with organizational policies, standards, and best practices
• Design, build and manage our internal developer platform infrastructure on AWS
• Create infrastructure as a code from scratch and create reusable IaC templates.
• Daily use of Terraform to push out code
• Customize observability and monitoring tools with Python
• Identify observability and notification needs for the organization
• Create and maintain deployment automation for new or updated dashboards or data source
• Lead efforts in enterprise data strategy, observability, stewardship, and metadata management to ensure data accuracy and accessibility
• build relevant cloud infrastructure to support observability include create IAM roles and policies that enable data collection
• Security groups and rules that allow compliance enforcement traffic
• Deployment automation (e.g. Terraform) to create Prometheus and Grafana infrastructure
• SNS topics for sending notifications when alarms are triggered
• Write scripts to extend the observability platform where there are gaps in coverage
• Act as a technical leader within multi-disciplined, matrixed teams, promoting innovative solutions and emerging technologies to enhance operational efficiency and security

Required Skills

• Minimum of five years’ experience in cloud or hybrid environments, with a strong focus on cloud architecture and observability
• Deep understanding of enterprise data strategy, observability practices, and stewardship principles along with knowledge in data standards and metadata management
• Experience in architecting cloud-based observability solutions and familiarity with container-based architectures including Kubernetes
• Experience with infrastructure as code languages such as Terraform
• Experience with Python and the AWS SDK
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline automation tools such as GitHub Actions
• Direct Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Elastic Stack
• Experience with hybrid cloud configurations
• Experience in an organization with mature observability practices

It is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position. Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require since job responsibilities and the Company’s needs may change over time. Therefore, the above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive. The Company reserves the right to adjust, add to or eliminate any aspect of the above description. The Company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

Benefits & Perks

• Company-Paid Benefits: 100% Employer-Paid Medical in our High Deductible Health Plan, Dental and Vision benefits for employees and their families, 16 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Employee Assistance Program, Life insurance, Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
• 401(k): Company will match 100% of your contributions ups to 6%
• Optional Employee-Paid Benefits: Medical insurance in our PPO plan and a variety of other benefits such as Health Savings Accounts (with Company Contribution!), Flexible Spending Accounts, Supplemental Life Insurance, Wellhub and more
• Time Off: 25 days of Paid Time Off plus 12 company holidays

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

NORTHMARK STRATEGIES LLC IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. THE COMPANY'S POLICY IS NOT TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ANY APPLICANT OR EMPLOYEE BASED ON RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, AGE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION, MARITAL STATUS, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY, AND GENETIC INFORMATION, OR ANY OTHER BASIS PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. THE FIRM ALSO PROHIBITS HARASSMENT OF APPLICANTS OR EMPLOYEES BASED ON ANY OF THESE PROTECTED CATEGORIES.