Senior Platform Services Engineer

We are Anheuser-Busch, home to iconic beer and beyond-beer brands including Michelob ULTRA, Busch Light, Budweiser, Bud Light, Stella Artois, Cutwater Spirits, and leading craft brands. Our purpose is to create a future with more cheers, and we back that with long-standing commitments to American farmers, military members, veterans, first responders, and the communities where we operate. This senior platform engineering role is part of our enterprise technology organization, focused on Azure-first cloud platforms, automation, reliability, and developer enablement. The salary range is $106,400-$126,350, with bonus and long-term incentive eligibility. We offer comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellness and savings accounts, life and disability coverage, generous parental leave, a 401(k) with company match, and the chance to work in a fast-paced, owner-minded environment with free beer.

- We require a bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent hands-on experience.
- We look for 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, systems engineering, or a similar technical field.
- We need experience designing, building, and operating cloud platforms in Azure or comparable enterprise cloud environments.
- We require strong scripting and automation skills with PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar languages.
- We need solid systems thinking and the ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, governance, cost, and developer experience.
- We expect the ability to communicate technical ideas clearly to engineering, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders.
- We value demonstrated ownership, accountability, and collaboration in complex enterprise settings.
- We need the ability to influence technical direction, platform standards, and engineering best practices without formal authority.
- We require experience with Kubernetes, containerized platforms, managed runtimes, or enterprise hosting environments.
- We expect hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, preferably Terraform.
- We need working knowledge of Azure services such as AKS, Azure Container Registry, Azure Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Azure networking, and managed identities.
- We require understanding of platform security principles, including identity, access management, secrets management, and policy-driven governance.
- We need experience with monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and incident analysis.
- We require experience building CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions or similar pipeline tools.
- We expect experience supporting enterprise source control platforms, including repository governance, branching strategies, and workflow standards.
- We need the ability to create clear technical documentation, standards, and operational runbooks.
- Preferred: experience with Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or Application Insights.
- Preferred: experience building reusable Terraform modules, platform templates, internal developer platforms, or GitHub Enterprise standards.
- Preferred: familiarity with GitOps, Helm, Kustomize, container security, service mesh concepts, FinOps, or cloud governance models.

- We design, build, and support shared platform services for enterprise application teams.
- We develop reusable platform patterns across Azure services, Kubernetes/container platforms, networking, identity, secrets management, and governance.
- We contribute to platform standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
- We enable development teams with secure, scalable, and cost-effective platform solutions.
- We own the reliability, operability, and documentation of platform services.
- We improve observability through monitoring, dashboards, alerts, telemetry, and operational runbooks.
- We participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
- We reduce recurring operational effort through automation, self-service tooling, and standardized solutions.
- We build automation-first solutions that improve delivery speed, consistency, and operational efficiency.
- We develop and maintain Terraform infrastructure modules and provisioning patterns.
- We create and maintain GitHub Actions workflows and deployment templates.
- We build repository standards, onboarding tooling, and developer self-service capabilities.
- We leverage approved AI-assisted engineering tools, including GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex, to improve quality, automation, and documentation.
- We identify and address reliability, scalability, performance, and operational risks across shared services.
- We strengthen platform resilience through automation, standardization, and service health visibility.
- We support cloud cost optimization through efficient architecture, lifecycle management, tagging, and right-sizing practices.
- We lead technical design discussions and mentor engineers on platform engineering best practices.
- We influence platform architecture, CI/CD standards, source control practices, automation, and engineering quality across teams.
- We partner cross-functionally with Software Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Operations teams.
- We drive platform maturity through reusable standards, documentation, templates, and implementation guidance.