Platform Engineer (Cloud Reliability Engineer)

Platform Engineer (Cloud Reliability Engineer)

Reports to : Director, Global Operations

Based in Ottawa, ON

Term : Full Time

About Nanometrics

With 40 years of seismic technology and industry application experience, we are a global, award‑winning company providing monitoring solutions and equipment for studying artificial and natural seismicity. From mission‑critical seismic arrays, tsunami and early‑earthquake warning systems in over 90 countries across the globe to induce seismicity monitoring in the energy sector. We specialize in full‑service, integrated solutions for studying artificial and natural seismicity, including turnkey seismic networks, industry‑leading precision instrumentation, complete data processing, analysis services, and software applications.

At Nanometrics, we take pride in fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We are passionate about making a global impact through cutting‑edge technology while staying rooted in values of intentional innovation, trust, ethics, and stability.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and experienced Platform Engineer to evolve, enhance and lead the technological footprint of our Seismic Monitoring Services portfolio. Nanometrics provides a top tier portfolio of tools and services which is supported by a continuously evolving cloud based platform.

The Platform Engineer / Cloud Reliability Engineer ensures the reliability, performance, and operational excellence of cloud‑hosted seismic monitoring and data processing services. This role blends software engineering, cloud infrastructure management, and SRE practices to build resilient systems, reduce manual toil through automation, and improve observability across AWS and Kubernetes ecosystems.

The successful candidate will use Terraform or similar Infrastructure-as-Code technologies (Pulumi, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, OpenTofu) to deliver consistent, automated, scalable infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Cloud Reliability & Resilience

• Ensure uptime, performance, and reliability of AWS-hosted services and Kubernetes workloads
• Implement self-healing patterns, automated rollbacks, health checks, and safe-deployment strategies
• Participate in on-call rotation and lead first-response triage for cloud and platform incidents
• Build and maintain service-level indicators (SLIs) and service-level objectives (SLOs)

Automation & Infrastructure Engineering

Observability & Operational Intelligence

Operational Excellence

Requirements

Education and Experience

Cloud & Infrastructure

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

CI / CD & Deployment Engineering

Monitoring & Observability

Reliability Engineering Concepts

Why Nanometrics?

Nanometrics is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Should you require accommodation as part of the recruitment and selection process, please reach out to careers@nanometrics.ca

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