Senior Engineer, Platform Services

Role Summary

The Sr. Engineer, Platform Services is a senior-level individual contributor responsible for building, automating, and evolving the shared engineering platforms that enable secure, scalable, and reliable application delivery across Anheuser-Busch.

Job Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture & Engineering Design, build, and support shared platform services for enterprise application teams.
  • Develop reusable platform patterns across Azure services, Kubernetes/container platforms, networking, identity, secrets management, and governance.
  • Contribute to platform standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
  • Enable development teams through secure, scalable, and cost-effective platform solutions.
• Service Reliability & Operations
  • Own the reliability, operability, and documentation of platform services.
  • Improve observability through monitoring, dashboards, alerts, telemetry, and operational runbooks.
  • Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and platform reliability improvements.
  • Reduce recurring operational work through automation, self-service tooling, and standardized solutions.
• Automation & Developer Enablement
  • Build automation-first solutions that improve delivery speed, consistency, and operational efficiency.
  • Develop and maintain:
    • Terraform infrastructure modules and provisioning patterns
    • GitHub Actions workflows and deployment templates
    • Repository standards, onboarding tooling, and developer self-service capabilities
  • Leverage approved AI-assisted engineering tools, including GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex, to improve engineering quality, automation, and documentation.
• Scalability, Performance & Governance
  • Identify and address reliability, scalability, performance, and operational risks across shared services.
  • Improve platform resilience through automation, standardization, and service health visibility.
  • Support cloud cost optimization through efficient architecture, lifecycle management, tagging, and right-sizing practices.
• Technical Leadership
  • Lead technical design discussions and mentor engineers on platform engineering best practices.
  • Influence platform architecture, CI/CD standards, source control practices, automation, and engineering quality across teams.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Software Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Operations teams.
  • Drive platform maturity through reusable standards, documentation, templates, and implementation guidance.

Job Qualifications

• Core Experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), systems engineering, or related technical roles.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating cloud platforms within Azure or comparable enterprise cloud environments.
  • Strong scripting and automation experience using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar languages.
  • Strong systems thinking with the ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, governance, cost, and developer experience.
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively across engineering, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and collaboration within complex enterprise environments.
  • Ability to influence technical direction, platform standards, and engineering best practices without formal authority.
• Cloud & Platform Technologies Experience
  • Experience with Kubernetes, containerized platforms, managed runtimes, or enterprise hosting environments.
  • Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, preferably Terraform.
  • Working knowledge of Azure services such as: AKS, Azure Container Registry, Azure Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Azure networking and managed identities.
• Observability & Automation Experience
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and incident analysis.
  • Experience building CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions or similar pipeline technologies.
  • Experience supporting enterprise source control platforms, including repository governance, branching strategies, and workflow standards.
• Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or Application Insights.
  • Experience building reusable Terraform modules, platform templates, internal developer platforms, or GitHub Enterprise standards.
  • Familiarity with GitOps, Helm, Kustomize, container security, service mesh concepts, FinOps, or cloud governance models.

Why Anheuser-Busch

At Anheuser-Busch, our purpose is to create a future with more cheers. For more than 165 years as a leading American manufacturer, Anheuser-Busch has delivered a legacy of brewing great-tasting, high-quality beers that have satisfied beer drinkers for generations. As the nation's top brewer, one of the fastest growing spirits companies, and an insurgent force in energy drinks, we drive economic prosperity nationwide through investments in our people, facilities, and communities. We are the only alcohol company that invests in the U.S. at this scale.

Benefits

• Health benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Wellness and Tax-Advantaged Savings and Spending Accounts
• Life Insurance and Disability Income Protection
• Generous Parental Leave and FMLA policies
• 401(k) Retirement Savings options with a company matching contribution
• Free Beer!