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Planet DDS is the leading provider of cloud-enabled dental software solutions serving over 10,000 practices in North America with over 60,000 users. The company delivers a complete platform of solutions for dental practices including Denticon Practice Management, Apteryx XVWeb Digital Imaging, and Legwork Patient Relationship Management. Planet DDS is committed to creating value for its dental practice clients by solving the most urgent challenges facing today’s dental practices in North America.
Overview:
To be successful, you will need to be self-motivated, a critical thinker, able to take high-level direction, communicate clearly, gain consensus, and drive to completion in a very fast-paced environment. You do not shy away from learning something new or experimenting with technologies to find the right solution. You are a friendly, hard-working, and positive person with a true passion for solving problems with technology and will fit in well with our dynamic team.
This is a Hybrid role (1-2 days in Glasgow) however will consider Remote only UK based candidates
Qualifications
1. 6+ years of experience operating and troubleshooting Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, Application Insights, Azure Redis, VNets, and Azure App Gateway.
2. 6+ years of experience with Reliability concepts to ensure high performance and high service availability, able to define, implement, and improve business performance SLOs.
3. 6+ years of experience with Observability across multiple domains (APM, Infrastructure, Synthetics, Logs, etc...) within cloud and on-premise environments using Datadog, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights. NewRelic and Grafana are nice to have.
4. 6+ years of experience with Production operations including 24x7 on-call support, escalation/paging with OpsGenie, incident management, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), and retrospective analysis.
5. 6+ or more years in hands-on technical roles (such as site reliability engineer, software engineer, DevOps engineer, infrastructure engineer).
6. 2+ years of experience leading an SRE team.
7. Experience with infrastructure management across multiple cloud and on-premise environments using tools such as Terraform, Bicep, PowerShell, Ansible.
8. Security knowledge of fundamental cloud security (e.g., identity and access management, firewalls, etc.)
9. Strong collaboration and communication skills in a hybrid environment using Microsoft Teams, email, and calendar.
10. Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant major or equivalent years of experience.
Responsibilities & Duties
1. Develop architecture, strategy, and implementations to enable or enhance the Observability and Reliability of applications and services running on IaaS and PaaS in Microsoft Azure. AWS and GCP are nice to have.
2. Service Level Objectives and indicators focused on improving business workflow performance and availability.
3. Technical and business dashboards, metrics, and actionable alerting.
4. Processes and automation for increasing uptime and availability, reducing toil, and improving all phases of incident and problem management.
5. Perform deep dives into systemic and latent reliability issues, incident management, problem management.
6. Participate in all aspects of incident management including awareness, communication, remediation, retrospective/root cause analysis.
7. Identify and implement process improvements of MTTA (Mean Time to Acknowledge) and MTTR (Mean Time to Resolve).
8. Support operations & engineering teams on Azure. AWS and GCP are nice to have.
9. Training & mentoring for peers and less experienced engineers.
10. Production environments with on-call rotations.
11. Train and mentor engineering teams on modern observability practices and techniques.
12. Define and socialize SRE culture, best practices, architectural and security standards.
13. Assess and raise risks across the organization.
14. Internal engineering, architecture, and operations teams partnership to ensure alignment.
15. External teams to support their work and ensure compliance with our standards.
16. Optimize & manage multi-product observability platforms supporting cloud/on-prem infrastructure, services, and applications.
17. Measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health across multiple product lines.
18. Other duties as assigned.
About You
You maintain the highest level of integrity in everything you do. You respect and share our values. You love working with teams of smart and driven people to solve challenging problems. You can talk about complex software systems and have ideas on how to build quality, performant, and easily supportable software most effectively. You exhibit dogged determination to get to the root of problems. You care about best practices and evangelizing them with the team. You like to research and propose new techniques and methodologies to improve quality and efficiency of our software. You can clearly convey your thoughts, enjoy presenting what you’ve done, and can cater your message to audiences both technical and non-technical.
Behavior and Scope
You raise issues early when you see obstacles to achieving a goal and work to find solutions. You volunteer to get involved in the solution even if it is beyond your own team or role. You evangelize good practices both on and off your team. You actively help solve cross-team issues by assisting other teams. You speak up on broader issues in the domain beyond your own work, such as processes, company issues, or large projects. You guide the team in designing major components of systems and products. You lead the design and development of large and critical areas of Azure infrastructure. You are able to reason about the purpose of each component in a system and how they interact with each other to support the product. You propose and advocate for significant new features and actively affect change. You rarely require guidance to complete complex work to achieve success. You often lead and guide other team members. You actively mentor others and seek accountability.
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