Platform Operations Engineer

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in a DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Systems Administration role, preferably within a B2B SaaS environment.
• Experience with using GitHub Actions to set up continuous integration environments.
• Solid Cloud Fundamentals: Confident hands-on experience with AWS core services (including RDS, Lambda, and CloudWatch) and with GCP (specifically Google BigQuery).
• Experience with approaches for managing and scaling large SQL databases.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), specifically Terraform, alongside a willingness to balance it with ClickOps where practical.
• An eager, proactive approach to learning. You are excited to be mentored, take direction, and grow your skills within the team.
• Meticulous attention to detail. You’ll be handling security compliance and user permissions where accuracy is vital.
• Familiarity with the ISO27001 security standard and how it relates to infrastructure.
• Absolutely superb communication skills. You need to be able to communicate effectively across Beacon’s engineering team, working closely with other engineers to solve challenging problems and optimise processes.
• Familiarity with Google Spanner.

What the job involves

• Infrastructure Management: Perform updates to our AWS and GCP infrastructure via a pragmatic combination of ClickOps and Terraform configuration.
• Security & Compliance: Action all security remediation actions coming from Vanta to ensure we maintain the high standards required for ISO27001.
• Access Control: Manage and action all GCP/AWS permissions and access requests coming in via Beacon security.
• Monitoring & Incident Response: Respond to infrastructure alerts relating to capacity or systems issues. Work with the platform team to configure AWS and GCP monitoring (alerts, performance dashboards, logs) and contribute to the team’s strategy for responding when things go wrong.