Senior Platform Engineer (Observability)
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
Youll be joining Stora at an exciting time - on the ground floor of our new Platform Engineering team. With a slant towards observability and infrastructure youll have the opportunity to shape how the team operates and contribute to the technical direction.
From day one youll take ownership of designing and operating the systems that give us deep insight into the health performance and reliability of our platform. Your work will span monitoring logging alerting tracing and infrastructure as code equipping our developers and operators with the visibility and tooling they need to deliver a world-class product.
Your Responsibilities
Lead the design rollout and management of observability systems (Grafana Prometheus Loki).
Lead the migration away from our old AppSignal setup.
Define and implement monitoring application logging audit logging and alerting strategies across AWS.
Build Terraform modules to provision observability and core infrastructure.
Work closely with product and platform teams to ensure services are well-instrumented and reliable.
Help establish and measure SLIs/SLOs to guide operational excellence.
Proactively monitor investigate and resolve production issues driving preventative improvements.
Our Technology Stack
Were pragmatic and pick tools that balance speed and sustainability. Key elements relevant to this role include:
Observability: Managed Grafana Managed Prometheus Loki OpenTelemetry
Infrastructure: Moving from Heroku to AWS (EC2 RDS CloudFront S3 IAM Managed Grafana Managed Prometheus etc.)
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
Application stack (for context): Rails 7.1 PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB Redis Sidekiq
CI/CD & Ops: GitHub Actions Docker Kamal Heroku (migration to AWS in progress)
What Were Looking For
Proven experience in:
Designing and operating production-grade observability stacks (Grafana Prometheus Loki).
Building and managing AWS infrastructure.
Writing and maintaining Terraform modules for infrastructure and monitoring.
Defining and managing key metrics alerting dashboards and log pipelines.
Troubleshooting complex production systems with a focus on reliability.
Communicating technical concepts clearly across teams.
Bonus points for:
Experience with OpenTelemetry
Familiarity with Kamal
Background in incident response and on-call practices.
Interest in security compliance and cost optimisation in observability.
Important: This is a hybrid role based in Northern Ireland.
Benefits & Compensation
4 or 5-day week Choose between working a 5-day (40-hour) week or a 4-day (32-hour).
Competitive annual salary starting from 65k for 5-day week (pro-rated for 4-day week).
Remote Work Option Remote with one day per week in our Belfast office.
Health & wellness Private health insurance for you and your family.
Retirement Company pension plan.
Leave 35 or 28 days paid annual leave depending on your work week.
Professional growth L&D support and budget.
Share options.
WFH budget.
Company-wide social events.
Next steps
Were reviewing applications as they come in and will be in touch quickly if it looks like a match.
Equal Opportunities at Stora
Stora is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with dignity and respect and where individual differences are valued.
We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of age disability gender gender reassignment marital or civil partnership status pregnancy or maternity race religious belief or political opinion or sexual orientation.
All recruitment and employment decisions are made on the basis of merit competence and business need. We actively promote equality of opportunity and fair participation in line with our responsibilities under Northern Ireland equality legislation.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process please let us know.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- APIs
- C/C++
- Computer Graphics
- Go
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Library Services
- Assembly
- GraphQL
- High Voltage
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