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Sr Platform Engineer (Datacenter Engineering)

Beacon Technologies
18 hours ago
Contract
Remote
United States
$60 - $75 USD hourly
Cloud Technologies
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.

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