Sr Platform Engineer (Datacenter Engineering)

Beacon Technologies; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Technologies, Inc. seeks a Sr. Platform Engineer to join the datacenter engineering team. You will manage OpenShift workloads, build automation with Terraform/Ansible, and deliver platform services across AWS and GCP in multi-account security models.

You will strengthen infrastructure with OS hardening, disaster recovery, and SRE principles, while contributing to continuous improvement and strong documentation practices.

Qualifications

• 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 and network foundations.
• Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and building Ansible content for on-prem and cloud services.
• Understanding of OS hardening practices for templated deployments.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, microservices for automation.
• Security best practices, secrets management, certificates management.
• Proficiency in Python, Linux, Shell, Bash, or similar languages.
• Proficiency with Git/GitLab and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of resilient system design, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Participate in agile processes and communicate technical information.

Responsibilities

• Manage VM and container workloads on OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Provision and manage images and templates for OpenShift workloads.
• Build automation for on-prem and cloud environments using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation.
• Deliver platform services across AWS and/or GCP in multi-account models.
• Perform OS lifecycle management through golden images, patching, and hardening.
• Contribute to large-scale resiliency, data protection, and disaster recovery.
• Own automation work within projects from design through delivery.
• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks/roles following Git workflows.
• Support evaluations and re-engineering for continuous improvement.
• Document design decisions, estimates, code modules, and performance metrics as required.

Tools

OpenShift

OpenShift Virtualization

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

VMware

Linux

Windows Server

Git/GitLab

CI/CD Pipelines

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

Job description

Beacon Technologies is seeking a Sr. Platform Engineer to work within the datacenter engineering team. Our group delivers platform services across public and private cloud. We are looking for a well-rounded engineer with hands-on experience across on-prem and cloud technologies, who uses DevOps tools 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.