Senior Platform Developer

Cetaris – Greater Toronto Area, ON – Remote with occasional in-person teamwork

Would you like to implement, enhance, and maintain Microsoft Azure platforms and infrastructure, as part of a growing software development team with a excellent learning environment?

About the role

We are seeking a skilled, meticulous, and cooperative individual to join our Azure DevOps team as a Sr. Platform Developer. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in maintaining and enhancing our infrastructure and platform in Microsoft Azure. Your responsibilities will include ensuring the reliability, security, and scalability of our systems, while continuously innovating to improve platform performance and operational efficiency.

This is a minimum 12-month leave replacement contract (40 hours/week), with the possibility to extend or convert to full-time employment, and a bi-weekly rate (commensurate with experience) based on an annual salary from 90,000 – 120,000. Shared medical, dental, wellness, and workplace insurance benefits are provided including vision care, paramedical services, EFAP (counselling), telemedicine, and more.

Hours and location

Our team continues to work 100% remotely with a high level of daily team interaction and occasional in person meet-ups in the Greater Toronto Area. Future plans around location are still open. Our primary focus is the wellness of our team and their families.

This role enjoys some flexibility in hours combined with core hours. Occasional evening or weekend availability for scheduled deployments.

What you will do

- Infrastructure and Platform Management: Maintain and support our Azure infrastructure, encompassing AKS nodes, virtual machines, SQL databases, networks, and storage, ensuring seamless operations and timely updates or patches to maintain security and compliance.
- Automation: Develop and implement automation scripts and tools, leveraging technologies such as Terraform, Python, PowerShell, and more, to streamline deployment, patching, and maintenance tasks.
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Proactively monitor and troubleshoot system issues, guaranteeing high availability and optimal performance. Utilize tools like Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
- CI/CD Integration: Work proficiently with Azure DevOps Pipelines and other CI/CD tools to efficiently deploy, update, and manage our applications and services.
- Kubernetes Mastery: Manage and optimize our Azure Kubernetes clusters, ensuring peak performance, security, and timely updates. Implement strategies for smooth upgrades and patching of the platform.
- Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to innovate and improve the platform’s performance, security, and scalability.



Continuously research and implement new technologies or processes to enhance the platform.
- Collaboration and Initiative: Collaborate effectively with the development and DevOps teams to ensure platform alignment with industry standards. Proactively address platform needs, and lead initiatives for improvement and innovation without waiting for assignment.
- Documentation: Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation and runbooks for our infrastructure, automation processes, and platform changes.
- Client and Vendor Communication: Confidently communicate and collaborate with third-party vendors and customers when required, gathering feedback and fostering relationships to ensure platform success.

Skills and knowledge required

- Experience: Your work experience includes a minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in Azure infrastructure and platform support, including patch management and platform upgrades.
- Hybrid Cloud Proficiency: Experience with hybrid cloud environments and multi-cloud strategies.
- Security / Identity Management: Experience with network security, policies, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory), and patching to address vulnerabilities.
- Problem Solving and Troubleshooting: Proven ability to troubleshoot issues efficiently, with afocus on minimizing system downtime and improving platform performance.

Soft Skills and Personal Attributes

- Strong Communication and Listening Skills: You demonstrate the ability to gather and clarify technical requirements, listen effectively to feedback, and incorporate suggestions into work.
- Initiative and Ownership: You take ownership of tasks, proactively identify and implement improvements, including patching and platform upgrades.
- Attention to Detail and Quality: You deliver high-quality code and infrastructure configurations with minimal errors. You are quick to address bugs and platform vulnerabilities through timely patches.
- Team Player and Collaboration: You engage in active communication with the team and external stakeholders, providing updates and gathering input when necessary. You work closely with security and compliance teams to ensure platform readiness.
- Adaptability and Continuous Learning: You show willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies. You actively seek opportunities for platform innovation and the implementation of new solutions for continuous improvement.



You take interest in and support others’ learning.

Bonus points

- Experience with asset management software or the transportation industry.

Why you want to be at Cetaris

· When we work from home – happy hours, cooking classes, travel tips, online games, and other on-camera fun!

· When we’re together - picnics, skiing, bowling, ziplining, boat rides, and board games!

· In-person meetups for team training and our annual user conference.

· Flexible work hours.

· Sit/stand workstations and other ergonomic supports.

· Individualized learning support and certification bonuses.

· Your birthday off!

· Benefits include dental, vision care, paramedical services, mental health support, telemedicine, and more.

· Team fundraising for Daily Bread Food Bank, Red Cross relief efforts.

· Employee groups support our team culture and ensure every team member feels they belong.

About us

We build leading-edge Enterprise Asset Management software to help some of the world’s largest organizations to manage millions of fleet and fixed assets in over fifty countries. We enable customers to mine mission-critical data to optimize the maintenance of their assets. Cetaris is a past winner of the ‘Best Tech Work Culture’ Timmy Award. Visit cetaris.com to learn more about us!

Hiring Process

Accessibility: At Cetaris, we are committed to providing a safe, equitable, and accessible space for all. If you are an applicant with a disability or work-related barrier, we invite you to reach out to discuss your accommodation needs at any phase in the application process.

Technology: Our hiring team currently does not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled tools to evaluate candidates. While we embrace AI tools in our software development work, all hiring decisions are made by humans.

Job Types: Full time, Permanent

Pay: $90,000.00-$120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

- Company events
- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision care
- Wellness program
- Work from home

Application question(s):

- Have you used AI tools while preparing your application materials? If yes, please tell us which tools you used and how. We welcome thoughtful use of AI and are interested in understanding your process.
- Which project in your recent experience are you most proud of and why?
- Tell us about a recent platform enhancement or improvement you made.

Experience:

- Platform management: 5 years (required)
- hands-on Azure support: 3 years (required)
- network security in AAD: 1 year (required)
- Hybrid cloud setting: 1 year (required)

Location:

- Greater Toronto Area, ON (preferred)

Work Location: Remote

📌 Senior Platform Developer (Greater Toronto Area)
🏢 Cetaris
📍 Greater Toronto Area