Sr. Platform Engineer

Beacon Technologies, Inc; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental premiums for salar-?

Job summary

Beacon Technologies is seeking a Sr. Platform Engineer for our client partner.

This Senior level role sits in the Datacenter Engineering Group, delivering platform services across public cloud (AWS and GCP) and private cloud (VMware and OpenShift). You will work hands-on with OpenShift, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, and Git to build repeatable patterns, harden environments, and automate across on‑prem and cloud.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience.
• Hands-on with OpenShift workloads and virtualization.
• Experience provisioning images and templates for OpenShift workloads.
• Public cloud experience with AWS or GCP.
• Multi-cloud security models and cross-account delivery.
• On‑prem technologies including VMware and Linux/Windows server administration.
• Foundational system administration and network fundamentals.
• Experience with Ansible content and AAP workflows.
• RESTful APIs/GraphQL/microservices for automation.
• Security best practices, secrets management and certificate handling.
• Proficient with Git/GitLab and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Manage VMs and containers on OpenShift/Kubernetes.
• Provision images and templates for workloads.
• Build automation for on‑prem and cloud with Terraform/Ansible.
• Deliver platform services across AWS and GCP accounts.
• Lifecycle management of enterprise OS images, patching, hardening.
• Contribute to resiliency, data protection, and DR efforts.
• Own automation tasks from design through delivery.
• Develop Ansible playbooks/roles and adhere to Git workflows.
• Participate in evaluations and re‑engineering for improvement.
• Document design decisions, estimates, code modules, and metrics.

Skills

OpenShift/Kubernetes

OpenShift Virtualization

AWS/GCP cloud experience

AnsibleAutomation

Git/GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Python/automation

VMware administration

OS hardening

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Tools

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP)

GitLab

Terraform

Job description

Beacon Technologies is seeking a Sr. Platform Engineer for our client partner. This position is for a Senior Level Engineer within the Datacenter Engineering Group. Our group delivers platform services across public cloud (AWS and GCP Primarily) and private cloud (VMware and Red Hat OpenShift). We are looking for a well-rounded engineer with hands‑on experience across on‑prem and cloud technologies, who uses DevOps tools such as Git, Ansible, Terraform, Python, and GitLab to build repeatable patterns and solutions. This role requires strong infrastructure fundamentals, a DevSecOps mindset, and Site Reliability Engineering principles.

Primary Accountabilities:

• Manage virtual machine and container workloads running on OpenShift Virtualization and OpenShift / Kubernetes.
• Provision and manage images and templates for OpenShift workloads, along with the shared resources those workloads consume.
• Build automation for on‑prem and cloud environments using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation.
• Deliver platform services across AWS accounts and/or GCP projects, working within multi‑account security models.
• Understanding and lifecycle management of enterprise operating systems through golden images, patching, and system hardening.
• Participate in large‑scale resiliency, data protection, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Own automation work within larger projects from design through delivery.
• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles, following team coding standards and Git workflows.
• Participate in technology evaluations and re‑engineering activities to support continuous improvement.
• Provide consistent documentation for design decisions, estimating assumptions, code modules, and performance metrics as required by organization standards.
• Prepare and participate in platform, code/Git, and documentation walkthroughs.
• Ensure work meets standards for design, performance, quality, and security. Identify and recommend areas for improvement in planning, design, development, and testing.
• Analyze and interpret performance data such as CPU, memory, and storage.
• Knowledge of agentic solutions and appropriate usage within critical systems.

Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements:

• 5+ years of relevant infrastructure or platform engineering experience.
• Hands‑on experience managing workloads on Red Hat OpenShift, including OpenShift Virtualization and Kubernetes.
• Experience with image provisioning, template management, and shared resources for OpenShift workloads.
• Hands‑on experience in at least one public cloud: AWS or GCP.
• Experience with multi‑cloud account security models and cross‑account service delivery.
• Experience across on‑prem technologies such as VMware and Linux/Windows server administration.
• Foundational system administration (operating systems, configuration, installations, patch management, server maintenance) and network foundations (firewalls, proxies, IP management, routing, DNS).
• Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), including job templates, workflows, inventories, credentials, and Execution Environments.
• Experience building and maintaining Ansible content that runs through AAP to automate on‑prem and cloud services.
• Understanding of operating system hardening practices and methodologies for templating deployments from a set of standardized images.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, microservices, and similar endpoints to configure, extract data, and build automation.
• Understanding of security best practices, secure coding practices, secrets management, certificates, and certificate management.
• Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following: Python, Linux, Shell, Bash, or other programming languages.
• Proficiency in Git/GitLab source code control, branching, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of resilient system design, high availability, and disaster recovery methodologies.
• Participate in agile processes, working stories through each sprint and adjusting as needed while collaborating with the team.
• Demonstrated experience communicating technical information.
• Curiosity, humility, and open‑mindedness with a deep sense of pride in your work.

About Beacon Technologies

Are you looking to advance your career in information technology? Beacon Technologies offers career advancement opportunities, extensive training, and excellent benefits including paying for health and dental premiums for salaried employees. In addition to providing interesting opportunities, Beacon Technologies provides that old fashioned, personal touch, so you feel like a part of the Beacon team.

Beacon Technologies, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer with a functioning Affintentive Action Plan. It is the policy of Beacon Technologies, Inc. to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin,genetic information, ethnicity, ancestry, disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Beacon Technologies, Inc. prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.