Platform Engineer

BetaTest Solutions; United States; Remoto; USD 120.000 - 160.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

BetaTest Solutions is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to oversee Microsoft Power Platform administration, governance, and deployments across Dev, Test, and Prod environments. You will collaborate with automation, development, and infrastructure teams to ensure secure, reliable platform delivery.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience, strong automation infrastructure knowledge, and hands-on administration of Power Platform components, licensing, and security.

Competenze

• Proven experience administering Microsoft Power Platform: environments, solutions, Dataverse security, connectors and licensing.
• Hands-on experience with Power Automate Desktop / RPA infrastructure: VMs, machine groups and unattended runtimes.
• Working knowledge of Windows Server, IIS, certificates and SharePoint administration.
• Experience with Entra ID / AD groups, role-based access and service accounts.
• Experience running releases through formal change management in regulated or enterprise settings.
• Able to coordinate with Network, Security and Infrastructure teams to get firewall and access changes done.

Mansioni

• Power Platform and environment administration: design, provision, publish, and manage environments and permissions.
• Virtual worker and automation infrastructure: build and maintain VMs, configure VDI and runtime agents.
• Network, firewall and downstream connectivity: raise change requests and verify connectivity to APIs and databases.
• Identity, security and access management: run end-to-end access requests, provision Entra ID groups and RBAC.
• Release engineering and change management: write pre-deployment runbooks and manage change records.
• SharePoint, IIS and collaboration operations: patching, SSL certs, bindings, and data retention controls.
• Capacity planning and operational assurance: size environments and check readiness before go-live.

Conoscenze

Power Platform admin

Power Automate Desktop

Windows Server knowledge

Entra ID / AD groups

Change management experience

Firewall and access coordination

Strumenti

Windows Server

IIS

Azure / Hyper-V VMs

VDI

Entra ID

Service Accounts

Descrizione del lavoro

Location: Remote

Experience: 6+ years

Shift timing: 1 PM to 10 PM

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced and proactive Platform Engineer to support the administration, configuration, governance, and ongoing operation of Microsoft Power Platform and related collaboration platforms. The role will focus on managing environments, solutions, access, licensing, automation infrastructure, and deployments across development, testing, and production environments. The ideal candidate will work closely with automation engineers, developers, testers, and infrastructure, network, and security teams to keep platforms secure, reliable, and ready for delivery.

Key Responsibilities

1. Power Platform and environment administration

• Design and provision Power Platform environments across Dev, Test, Pre-Prod and Production.
• Package and deploy solutions between environments (for example, CAP and PSR solutions from Dev to Test), and resolve publishing and privilege issues.
• Configure custom connectors, API connections, data gateways and environment variables.
• Manage Dataverse security: custom security roles, table permissions and team/group access.
• Govern licensing: forecast capacity and cost, allocate and track Power Apps, Power Automate and unattended RPA licences.

2. Virtual worker and automation infrastructure (PAD / RPA)

• Request, build and maintain VMs for developers and unattended bots in the PAD dev tenancy and production.
• Configure VDI, runner machines, machine groups and runtime agents for unattended workloads.
• Own the technical prerequisites for new automations, including licences, service accounts and credential vaults.

3. Network, firewall and downstream connectivity

• Raise and verify firewall change requests, including whitelisting new automation VMs.
• Establish and test connectivity to downstream systems (APIs, databases, SAP non-production) as Sprint 0 activities.

4. Identity, security and access management

• Run access requests end to end: forms, approvals and stakeholder sign-off.
• Provision Entra ID / AAD groups and role-based access (for example, editor and admin roles) so testers work as real users.
• Grant SharePoint and environment access to developers and testers, and run pre-flight access checks before sprints start.

5. Release engineering and change management

• Write pre-deployment runbooks and deploy packages to Test and Production (for example, OCC, Tankering, Web Parts, Workday integrations).
• Raise, run and close change records, enforcing a minimum 24-hour lead time for deployments.
• Support post-release fixes, such as environment-variable changes after go-live.

6. SharePoint, IIS and collaboration platform operations

• Plan and deliver SharePoint patching (for example, cumulative updates), including business notices.
• Monitor SSL/TLS certificate expiry; manage MMC keystores and IIS bindings.
• Configure SharePoint libraries, content types and metadata (for example, the HR library and file drops).
• Manage data retention and restores, and give reporting teams access to restored data.

7. Capacity planning and operational assurance

• Size environments against compute, storage and platform limits.
• Check readiness, load and performance before services move to live.

Tools and technologies

- Automation & Low-Code: Power Automate (Cloud and Desktop/PAD), Power Apps, Dataverse, Custom Connectors, Power Platform Admin Center, Managed Solutions.

- Infrastructure & Virtualisation: Windows Server, IIS, Azure/Hyper-V VMs, VDI.

- Networking & Security: Firewall change requests, IP whitelisting, SSL/TLS certificates, MMC, IIS bindings, Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Service Accounts, Credential Vaults.

- Collaboration & Microsoft 365: SharePoint Online and On-Premises, Microsoft 365 Admin Center, PowerShell.

- Project Delivery & Change Management: Jira (PEIA and CACT projects), Confluence, Change Management Processes.

Skills, experience and behaviours

Essential

• Proven experience administering Microsoft Power Platform: environments, solutions, Dataverse security, connectors and licensing.
• Hands-on experience with Power Automate Desktop / RPA infrastructure: VMs, machine groups and unattended runtimes.
• Working knowledge of Windows Server, IIS, certificates and SharePoint administration.
• Experience with Entra ID / AD groups, role-based access and service accounts.
• Experience running releases through formal change management in regulated or enterprise settings.
• Able to coordinate with Network, Security and Infrastructure teams to get firewall and access changes done.

Desirable

• PowerShell scripting for administration and content migration.
• ALM for Power Platform (managed solutions, pipelines, environment variables).
• SharePoint on-premise to Online migration experience.
• Exposure to SAP or other enterprise back-end integrations.
• Microsoft certifications such as PL-200, PL-400, PL-500 or AZ-104.

Behaviours

• Plans ahead: flags lead times (change notice, licences, firewall) before they block sprints.
• Owns platform issues to closure and keeps delivery teams informed.
• Balances speed with governance, security and data protection.