Cloud Platform Engineer, Observability

The Company:
NorthMark Strategies is a multi-strategy investment advisory firm that provides strategic advice, asset management, and value-added professional services to investors, investment managers, and privately owned operating companies around the world. Our company’s mission is to integrate world class investments, operational excellence, and exceptional talent. Our values are Integrity, Ability, and Energy, and the company aims to hire individuals who possess those qualities. 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. We provide individuals with the opportunity to extend beyond boundaries and be in an optimal position to unlock exceptional value and drive unprecedented growth.

The Position:

We are actively seeking a highly skilled Cloud Observability 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

• Identify observability and notification needs for the organization

• Create and maintain deployment automation for new or updated dashboards or data sources

• Lead efforts in enterprise data strategy, observability, stewardship, and metadata management to ensure data accuracy and accessibility

• Build relevant cloud infrastructure to support observability including creating 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 and 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
   

Requirements:

• 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 up 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

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