Senior Platform Engineer — Self-Service & IaC

Best Buy; Vancouver; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 108,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Wellness program

Employee discounts

Training programs

Job summary

Best Buy Canada seeks a Senior Platform Development Engineer to evolve and scale our core engineering platforms. This hands-on role builds self‑service platforms that enable developers to ship faster and operate confidently.

You will codify infrastructure, expand self‑service capabilities, and drive operational excellence across our platform ecosystem, mentoring junior engineers and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure automation.
• 3+ years with cloud providers (Azure preferred).
• 2+ years building/managing platforms using IaC and container platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable self-service capabilities across engineering platforms.
• Improve developer experience by simplifying onboarding, deployment, and workflows.
• Translate architectural designs into production-grade implementations.
• Drive platform reliability, security, and performance improvements.
• Maintain platforms using IaC and configuration management.
• Collaborate with Tech Leads and teams to meet evolving needs.
• Participate in support rotation and after-hours maintenance.
• Maintain clear technical documentation.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Azure

IaC

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Scripting

GitOps

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Docker

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Jenkins

ACR

Artifactory

Job description

Best Buy Canada seeks a Senior Platform Development Engineer to evolve and scale our core engineering platforms. This hands-on role builds self‑service platforms that enable developers to ship faster and operate confidently.

You will codify infrastructure, expand self‑service capabilities, and drive operational excellence across our platform ecosystem, mentoring junior engineers and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.