Senior Platform Engineer

Reporting to: Director, Information Technology Location: Denver, CO AtInspirato, we are committed to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in all wedo—in our workplace, our business initiatives, our marketing, and the causes wesupport.As an innovator in the industry, we also recognize the valuable role diverseperspectives play in keeping us on the cutting edge of our business.Together we span ages, abilities, cultures, races, religions, gender identities, andsexual orientations. We not only embrace those differences, we celebrate them. Founded in 2011, Inspirato has continued to foster a culture built off innovation, curiosity, and entrepreneurial spirit. At Inspirato, we’re passionate about delivering incredible vacation and travel experiences for our members and their guests. We pride ourselves on providing a fun and healthy workplace with an open-door policy. Here, there’s no doubt you’ll be working alongside a team of smart, diverse, and driven individuals who love what they do. We take great pleasure in helping our employees enrich their lives through travel, grow their career, and provide an environment that fosters collaboration and transparency. We are on a mission: To inspire lasting memories and relationships by changing the way family and friends experience the world. The Senior Platform Engineer is responsible for the high availability and successful operation of our cloud platform, which includes building and supporting the tools, processes, and infrastructure that allows us to deliver and scale our business with high quality, consistency, and operational insight. Responsibilities:

• Develops, deploys, and maintains tools built from the ground up in support of self-service, quality, security, and compliance initiatives.
• Collaborate with the product, solutions architecture, QA, and engineering groups to build a self-sustaining world-class travel platform.
• Develops a comprehensive understanding of the applications and infrastructure within the environment and how they impact member experience, site performance, stability, and quality.
• Partners with software engineers, QA, solutions architecture, and technology leadership to understand operational strategy and then deliver against those expectations.
• Stay current with industry trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate and excel.
• Defines, manages, and reports against Service Level Objectives and Indicators to ensure efficiency and reliability across all production systems.
• Participate in troubleshooting, monitoring, and alerting activities, as well as on-call rotations, with tools such as DataDog, Sumo Logic, Azure Monitor, and OpsGenie
• Creates monitoring, alerting, and reporting processes to allow for the identification of issues and trends which will be remediated by implementation of automation to recover from errors without manual intervention.
• Develop and monitor automated infrastructure processes to standardized service delivery and meet regulatory requirements
• Mentor and support members of the Platform Engineering team in technical areas.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in Agile development processes.
• Strong knowledge and proficiency in modern programming languages.
• Well versed in internet architectures, including web, application, and database components.
• Active Directory/Azure Active Directory administration experience including centralized patch/update management, and service accounts/app registrations.
• Strong knowledge of NSGs, Load Balancers, DNS, CDN, SSL and virtual network concepts.
• Experience with configuration management software such as Chef, Ansible, Bicep, ARM Templates, etc.
• Experience deploying and using DataDog to monitor applications
• Understanding of REST APIs.

Desired Qualifications:

• 5+ years working with Microsoft Azure.
• 5+ years of experience working with Linux/Windows systems administration preferred.
• 5+ years of experience with Scripting Frameworks (Python, Bash, Powershell, etc).
• 5+ years of experience with CI/CD and building tools (Jenkins, Teamcity, Octopus Deploy, Github Actions, Azure DevOps, etc).
• Experience using Git in a team environment (merge requests, branching, continuous integration, etc).
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.

Compensation - $115,000 - $135,000 We believe in building a compensation structure that reflects the comparable market pay rate for positions at companies similar in size, revenue generation and geographic location; in addition to individual factors including seniority, performance-based merit, education/training and experience related to scope of responsibilities. Equity - This position is eligible for the company's equity plan. Benefits – This position is eligible for a health and welfare benefits package including medical, dental & vision insurance. 401k Retirement Plan – This position is eligible to participate in the company’s 401k retirement plan. Flexible Paid Time Off – This position is eligible for flexible paid time off. At Inspirato, we believe in taking personal responsibility for managing and balancing our individual time off with our workload and results. Instead of accruing or being granted a specific number of days per year, employees have the flexibility to manage their time out of the office. *Individuals based in California are eligible for a paid time off policy in which PTO is accrued each pay period. FAM Trip – This Position is eligible for the Employee Familiarization Travel Program following three (3) consecutive months of employment. This program provides you up to one seven (7) day reservation in an eligible Inspirato property per your employment calendar year – subject to seasonal property demands and the company Employee Familiarization Travel Program Terms and Conditions. California applicants can access Inspirato’s California Applicant and Employee Privacy Policy here: Internal applications must be submitted by December 15th, 2023 at 4pm MST.