Senior On-Prem Platform Engineer — Hybrid & Growth

OpenBet; Ohio; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenBet is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and own our on-premises infrastructure, with growing cloud integration. You will partner with DevOps, SRE, and Database Engineering to keep hybrid estate reliable, secure, and audit-ready, covering virtualization, Linux, storage, and DR.

You will lead automation efforts using Ansible, Python, and PowerCLI, and contribute to security, monitoring, and incident response in a fast-paced, regulated betting environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating on-premises infrastructure, including data centre, server hardware, and enterprise storage (SAN/NAS).
• Deep expertise with VMware virtualization (vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, clustering, and virtual networking).
• Strong Linux system administration skills.
• Strong automation skills with Ansible and scripting in Python, Bash, PowerCLI.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals and collaboration with network engineers.
• Experience with high availability, backup, and disaster recovery for virtualized workloads.
• Experience contributing to security and compliance audits with documentation and access governance.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools and on-call environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate on-premises virtual infrastructure (vSphere, vCenter, ESXi) and own lifecycle.
• Manage server estate hardware lifecycle, firmware, OOB management, Linux build standards, patching, troubleshooting.
• Operate on-premises storage platforms, capacity planning, tiering, performance tuning, and lifecycle.
• Design and implement HA and DR for virtualized workloads; coordinate with Infrastructure Manager.
• Build infrastructure automation with Ansible; use scripting (Python, Bash, PowerCLI) and version control.
• Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, Database Eng, and Network Eng for hybrid integration.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and capacity dashboards; support incident response.
• Maintain security/hardening at hypervisor/OS level; manage access controls for compliance.
• Maintain audit documentation, runbooks, access records, and evidence of controls.
• Support database infra (storage, HA, backups) with DB Eng; work with Network Eng.
• Lead infrastructure projects (refreshes, migrations, DR exercises) and participate in on-call rota.

Skills

VMware vSphere

Linux

Ansible

Python

PowerCLI

Networking fundamentals

HA & DR

Security audits

Monitoring

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Git

CI/CD pipelines

AWS

Job description

OpenBet is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and own our on-premises infrastructure, with growing cloud integration. You will partner with DevOps, SRE, and Database Engineering to keep hybrid estate reliable, secure, and audit-ready, covering virtualization, Linux, storage, and DR.

You will lead automation efforts using Ansible, Python, and PowerCLI, and contribute to security, monitoring, and incident response in a fast-paced, regulated betting environment.