Planet DDS is a leading provider of a platform of cloud-based solutions that empowers growth-minded dental businesses. Now serving over 13,000 practices and 118,000 customers in North America, Planet DDS delivers a comprehensive suite of solutions, including Denticon Practice Management, Cloud 9 Ortho Practice Management, and Apteryx Cloud Imaging. Planet DDS is dedicated to enabling dental support organizations (DSOs) and groups to grow and thrive with technology that delivers seamless integrations, improved workflows, and future-proof scalability.  

We are seeking a Principal Architect, Platform to lead the design, deployment, and optimization of Planet DDS’s cloud and on-premises infrastructure. In this role you will influence the platform strategy for Planet DDS. You will advise the engineering and product leadership at the company. You will also work with the engineers to mentor them in choosing the right architectural patterns and technologies. You will be the hands-on champion for building an AI-powered infrastructure platform and will drive adoption of AI tooling in the platform organization. 

This role is hybrid working 1-2x per week out of our Glasgow office. 

JOB DUTIES 

• Drive adoption of AI-based DevOps tools to automate processes, optimize infrastructure, and enhance team productivity. 
• Promote best practices for DevOps, SRE, Security, and Deployment platforms. 
• Participate in incident retrospectives and drive operational excellence across the engineering teams 
• Participate in Incident Management and establish top notch incident communication practices. 
• Partner with engineering leadership to build long term roadmap for the organization.
• Partner with the platform teams to drive architecture review of shared components 
• Leverage expertise in FinOps and cloud cost control to drive efficient utilization of cloud resources in the engineering organization.
• Partner with senior engineers across the company to drive best in class engineering practices across the organization. 

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience. 
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with Azure (required), AWS and GCP (preferred). 
• Minimum 1 years’ experience with AI coding tools 
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools and cloud security best practices. 
• Experience in operating large scale critical systems.
• Deep experience with FinOps and cloud cost optimization. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. 
• Proven experience of driving best practices across engineering organization. 

PLANET DDS CORE IDEOLOGY:

Why are we here?  Unleashing dentists and their staff to focus on patient care.

Where are we headed?  In the next 5 years, Planet DDS will remain the leading provider of cloud-based technology solutions in North America, expanding to serve more than 25,000 dental practices.

How do we get there?  To encourage measurable progress toward our vision and make the best decisions on behalf of employees and customers, we adopted a set of common values:

• Collaborative – Working independently and across teams, we create scalable solutions to enable company growth
• Empathetic – We are educated on the experience of our customers and feel vested in their success
• Accountable – We feel ownership for the quality of our work and take pride in the positive outcomes
• Trustworthy – We operate with integrity and honest, making promises we know that we can keep
• Ambitious – We are driven by our ability to make a long-term, positive impact on the lives of dental market leaders