Job#: 3047163 Job Description: Senior Platform Engineer
Location: Remote, but onsite in Seattle, WA preferred.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and optimize the infrastructure that supports our critical applications and services. This role is focused on implementing geo-replication within Azure Service Bus to address a key resiliency gap. You will act as a senior technical contributor, providing leadership and elevating the team by engineering robust solutions for disaster recovery and high availability.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of Azure Service Bus geo-replication.
- Enhance and build out infrastructure using Terraform.
- Improve disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) posture through hands-on implementation and testing.
- Develop and mature operational processes, resiliency practices, and runbooks.
- Mentor a small engineering team and provide technical leadership.
- Participate in on-call rotations and provide production support to diagnose and resolve issues.
- Manage and optimize Azure costs and governance.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles with a focus on DR/HA.
- Hands-on experience implementing geo-replication in production environments, specifically with Azure Service Bus.
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with strong experience in Terraform.
- Strong understanding of enterprise messaging platforms, pub/sub architectures, and resiliency concepts.
- Experience with business continuity, DR testing, failover, and failback procedures.
- Demonstrated ability to confidently discuss RTO vs. RPO, disaster recovery exercises, and business continuity planning.
- Strong scripting skills for automation tasks (e.g., Python, Bash, or Go).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in highly transactional environments such as banking, financial services, insurance, or enterprise SaaS.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
- Knowledge of containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE).
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
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