Are you looking to challenge yourself in a role where you can leverage your Platform Engineering, DevOps, and automation skills while continuously learning new technologies?
As an Intermediate Platform Development Engineer (Platform Development Engineer II) at Best Buy, within our Reliability Platforms Team, you will be responsible for the development, administration, maintenance, and lifecycle management of enterprise observability and reliability platforms, including monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including DevOps, Infrastructure, Network, and Product teams.
We practice a remote-first working model, leveraging in-person interactions at our head office, in beautiful Vancouver, BC, for strategic, collaborative, and social purposes.
Join our collaborative team as an Intermediate Platform Development Engineer!
What You’ll Do:
Design, develop, and enhance self-service capabilities for enterprise reliability and observability platforms.
Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities to proactively identify and address platform and application issues, ensuring platform stability, availability, and performance.
Deploy, administer, and maintain reliability platforms using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management practices.
Own platform lifecycle management activities, including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, vulnerability remediation, and decommissioning activities.
Identify and implement automation opportunities to improve platform operations, reduce manual effort, and enhance engineering productivity.
Work closely with other platform development engineers, DevOps and infrastructure teams to align platform development efforts with business objectives and technical requirements.
Participate in incident reviews, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives to prevent recurrence and improve platform reliability.
Collaborate with various teams to conduct capacity planning and resource optimization, ensuring adequate capacity to meet current and future demand.
Maintain comprehensive documentation of platform architectures, configurations, operational procedures, and automation workflows to support knowledge sharing and operational excellence.
Evaluate and implement improvements to existing platforms by leveraging industry best practices, emerging technologies, observability capabilities, and AI-assisted operational tools.
What We’re Looking For:
3+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
Strong scripting and automation experience using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar technologies.
2+ years of experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
2+ years of experience administering, developing, or supporting enterprise monitoring and observability platforms (e.g., Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, SolarWinds).
2+ years of experience working with logging, alerting, and operational platforms (e.g., Elastic, PagerDuty, GoAlert, Splunk).
2+ years of experience working with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
2+ years of experience deploying and supporting containerized applications and orchestration platforms (e.g., OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker).
Experience with platform upgrades, patching, vulnerability remediation, and lifecycle management of enterprise platforms.
Experience leveraging automation and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve operational efficiency and platform reliability is considered an asset.
Experience working with Linux operating systems.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and collaborative skills.
Why you’ll love it here:
Remote-first work environment
Employee discounts on awesome tech from day one
Flexible health benefits and wellness program
TFSA and RRSP programs
100% matched company pension plan
Training programs to build new and transferable skills
About Best Buy
As Canada's destination for the coolest tech, Best Buy offers one of the best work environments in the country! Our culture is one of inclusivity and belonging and provides employees an environment where they can bring their whole selves to work.
We believe in a fair and inclusive hiring process. We encourage you to apply if you may not meet all the requirements.
Join our amazing team!
Annualized Compensation Range
$90,000.00 - $110,000.00Starting pay offered will consider skills and experience. Your pay can grow as you build your career with us.
Suite 102 - 425 West 6th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1L3
This posting is for a vacancy.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
- Strong scripting and automation experience using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar technologies
- 2+ years of experience using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform or Ansible
- 2+ years of experience administering, developing, or supporting enterprise monitoring and observability platforms
- 2+ years of experience working with logging, alerting, and operational platforms
- 2+ years of experience working with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
- 2+ years of experience deploying and supporting containerized applications and orchestration platforms such as OpenShift, Kubernetes, or Docker
- Experience with platform upgrades, patching, vulnerability remediation, and lifecycle management of enterprise platforms
- Experience leveraging automation and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve operational efficiency and platform reliability
- Experience working with Linux operating systems
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and collaborative skills
Best Buy Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Best Buy and has not been reviewed or approved by Best Buy.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, vision, life/AD&D, disability, mental health resources, FSAs, and specialized programs like virtual physical therapy, second opinions, and an LGBTQIA+ health platform. Wellness initiatives and counseling access broaden the overall support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off includes holidays, floating holidays, bereavement, and paid volunteer time, with a Well-being Sabbatical offering extended time away. Parental leave and caregiver pay further extend time-off flexibility alongside adoption and childcare supports.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Quarterly performance bonuses and an annual recognition bonus provide additional earnings opportunities for eligible full-time employees and many part-timers working sufficient hours. A tiered pay structure links progression to role certification, location, and performance metrics.
Best Buy Insights
What We Do
At Best Buy, millions of customers rely on us to deliver the technology they need to learn, work, and stay connected. As a member of the Digital, Analytics & Technology team, we contribute to solving the ever-changing technological challenges of both our customers and our fellow employees. We are a collaborative, agile team that empowers its people by encouraging diversity of thought and passion while providing strong leadership and mentorship. We enrich lives through technology by leveraging our unique combination of tech expertise and human touch to meet our customers’ everyday needs, whether they come to us online, visit our stores or invite us into their homes. With over 1,000 stores and over 100,000 employees in the United States and Canada, we solve key human needs in the areas of productivity, security, health, entertainment, connectivity, and more.
Why Work With Us
Millions of customers rely on Best Buy to deliver the technology they need to learn, work, and stay connected. As a member of the Digital, Analytics & Technology team, you will contribute to solving the ever-changing technological challenges of both our customers and your peers. Work with a collaborative team that empowers its people.
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