Platform Engineer (Automation & Administration)

BetaTest Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

BetaTest Solutions is seeking a Platform Engineer to support and optimize the administration of its automation platform. The role focuses on managing Power Platform environments, PAD infrastructure, access controls, security configurations and deployments, with a strong emphasis on repeatable processes and governance.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience, can work in a remote setting, and will collaborate with security, infrastructure and development teams to ensure smooth operation

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering Microsoft Power Platform environments and Dataverse.
• Knowledge of DLP policies, identity controls, and environment governance.
• Experience with ALM, managed solutions, source control, and deployment automation.
• Strong understanding of security, access control, and data governance within cloud platforms.
• Excellent communication across delivery, infrastructure, security and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain automation platforms, environments and infrastructure across Power Platform, PAD, Copilot Studio, Logic Apps and Azure services.
• Implement environment strategies, RBAC models, and secrets management with baseline configurations.
• Manage development, test, pre-production and production environments with repeatable methods.
• Monitor platform performance, incident resolution and runbooks for knowledge transfer.

Skills

Power Platform admin

Dataverse administration

RBAC security

CI/CD pipelines

Clear communicator

Tools

PowerShell

Azure CLI

GitHub

CoE capabilities

Azure Monitor

SharePoint Admin

Job description

Location: Remote

Experience: 6+ years

Shift timing: 1 PM to 10 PM

About the Role:

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to support the administration and day-to-day operations of our automation platform. The role involves managing Power Platform environments, PAD infrastructure, access controls, security configurations and deployments. The role also involves maintaining deployment processes, monitoring platform performance, and creating runbooks to ensure smooth knowledge transfer.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Platform Configuration, Environment Management & Governance

• Engineer and maintain automation platforms, environments and infrastructure across Power Platform, Power Automate Desktop (PAD), Copilot Studio, Logic Apps and associated Azure services.
• Implement approved environment strategies, DLP policies, identity controls, RBAC models, service accounts, connection references, secrets management and configuration baselines.
• Provision and maintain development, test, pre-production and production environments using repeatable and, where practical, automated methods.
• Manage Dataverse security roles, Entra ID security groups and environment access for developers and testers.
• Move user access management to Entra ID security groups in line with the platform guardrails.
• Maintain licensing, capacity and service-account configuration, including PAD virtual machines, machine groups and unattended runtimes.
• Prepare platform prerequisites for new automations, including environments, PAD machines, licences and connectivity.
• Handle day-to-day environment access and security-role requests across development, test, pre-production and production.

2. Deployment Support, DevOps & CI/CD Enablement

• Package and promote solutions through development, test, pre-production and production in line with change management, including raising and closing change records.
• Maintain solution-packaging standards, environment variables, connection references and deployment pipelines.
• Support rollback, recovery and controlled emergency-release processes.
• Work with Automation Engineers to ensure deployments meet the Definition of Ready, Definition of Done and release-readiness criteria.
• Handle day-to-day deployment requests and act as the named backup for platform deployments.

3. Technical Operations, Monitoring & Incident Resolution

• Monitor environment availability, capacity, connector health, authentication, workflow execution, PAD infrastructure, APIs and platform dependencies.
• Investigate platform incidents, complete root-cause analysis and put preventative fixes in place.
• Coordinate firewall, network and connectivity requests to downstream systems with Infrastructure and Security teams.

4. Knowledge Transfer & Documentation

• Work alongside the existing platform engineer to share the operational load and act as the named backup for environment access, security roles and deployments.
• Write and maintain runbooks for recurring platform tasks and run short knowledge-transfer sessions.
• Hand over all documentation and open items at the end of the engagement.

Skills & Competencies :

• Strong experience administering and engineering Microsoft Power Platform environments, Managed Environments and Dataverse.
• Knowledge of Power Automate Desktop infrastructure, unattended automation and platform operations.
• Experience with ALM, managed solutions, source control, CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong understanding of identity, RBAC, DLP policies, service accounts, security groups and environment governance.
• Experience managing environments, connectivity, capacity, licensing, monitoring and platform performance.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve environment, deployment, integration and platform-service issues.
• Clear communicator, able to work across delivery, infrastructure, security and business teams and to document work for others.

Knowledge & Technical Skills:

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform administration, including environment management, DLP policies, connectors, licensing and admin tools such as Centre of Excellence (CoE) capabilities.
• Experience with Power Automate Desktop (PAD) operations, including machine management and bot scheduling.
• Knowledge of SharePoint Online administration. Experience with on-premises SharePoint and IIS, including bindings and SSL/TLS certificates, is an advantage.
• Understanding of Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, Azure Key Vault and secrets management.
• Experience with PowerShell and Power Platform/Azure CLI scripting.
• Familiarity with Git-based configuration management.
• Knowledge of Azure Monitor, Application Insights or equivalent monitoring and observability tools.
• Familiarity with Copilot Studio and Logic Apps is an advantage.

Essential Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience managing cloud-based automation or digital platforms in an enterprise environment.
• Strong technical background in Microsoft Power Platform, Azure, automation or integration technologies.
• Strong understanding of security, DLP, access control and data governance within cloud platforms.

Desirable Qualifications :

• Microsoft certifications such as PL-200, PL-400, PL-600, AZ-104, AZ-204 or equivalent.
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps or GitHub.
• Previous experience in the utilities sector or another regulated industry.
• Understanding of GDPR, ISO 27001 and regulatory environments, including Ofwat, DWI and EA.