For more than a century, Ben E. Keith Company has been a leader in fine food and premium beverage distribution, and we strive to consistently exceed our customers’ expectations.

Our Food Division is a complete broad line multi-state distributor, and our Beverage Division operates throughout the state of Texas as a proud distributor of Anheuser-Busch products, craft and import beer brands, spirits, and wine.

We are dedicated to the growth and success of our business, our customers, and our employees—continuing our commitment to delivering quality since 1906.

Position Summary and Responsibilities:

The Platform Engineer II is responsible for lifecycle management duties of Ben E. Keith’s hybrid-cloud infrastructure platforms, including virtual and physical servers, middleware services, backup services, and enterprise monitoring services. Lifecycle management duties are focused on deployment, support/maintenance, and decommissioning of technologies as they evolve. The Platform Engineer II must serve as a member of a team and be willing to learn, coach and mentor other team members on various technologies. The successful candidate will be a self-starter and have excellent knowledge and skills with Microsoft operating systems, AHV, and Azure cloud services.

Responsibilities:

• Provide daily operational support of hybrid-cloud server infrastructure
• Manage critical infrastructure services including Active Directory, DNS, monitoring, and system backups
• Manage cloud infrastructure services including accounts/subscriptions, IAM, networks, load balancers
• Oversee and manage multi-cloud environments by developing and enforcing policies, implementing resource tagging standards, optimizing costs through FinOps practices, and ensuring robust cloud governance
• Manage traditional infrastructure including physical and virtual servers, SAN and load balancers
• Develop and maintain script automation using tools such as PowerShell and Bicep to streamline service delivery and enhance support efficiency
• Design and implement highly available systems within a hybrid-cloud environment to ensure reliability, scalability, and minimal service disruption
• Establish and maintain documentation, including how-to articles and technical application diagrams
• Support acquisitions including configurations, monitoring and preventative maintenance
• Provide daily support to application and operations teams by maintaining effective production and test environments

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience
• 7+ years of experience with building and supporting hybrid-cloud infrastructure
• 5+ years of experience designing highly available Azure cloud infrastructure
• 5+ years of experience managing enterprise backup technologies (HYCU is preferred)
• 5+ years of experience with virtualization platforms, including AHV, VMware utilizing vSphere, Operations Manager, and vMotion
• 3+ years of experience managing multi-cloud environments, including policy development, resource tagging, cost optimization (FinOps), and cloud governance
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with script automation using tools such as PowerShell and Bicep to accelerate service delivery and improve support operations
• 3+ years of experience designing and implementing highly available systems in hybrid-cloud environments to support business continuity and scalability
• 3+ years of experience with HCI hardware technologies (Nutanix is preferred)
• 3+ years of experience engineering resilient systems and participating in enterprise disaster recovery planning
• Strong written and oral communication skills; ability to work with team members and business units
• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly terminology
• Must be able to work on-call as needed to support technologies that drive the business

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
• Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.

Ben E. Keith (BEK) Company is one of the largest food and beverage distributors in the United States. We are a family-owned business with a long-standing tradition of supporting the diverse communities in which we live and work. Our competitive employee benefits provide health and financial protection to our employees and their families.

We have sought to create an environment in which the contributions of each employee at Ben E. Keith are fully valued. This means more than simply treating one another with respect; it also means considering how all our people can positively impact the quality of the decisions we make about our business.

Here at Ben E. Keith, we recognize that our workforce reflects the increasingly diverse nature of our society, and we want to do all we can to take advantage of that diversity with both our external and internal customers. We believe our differences are also our strengths and we want to do all we can to use those strengths to find more creative solutions for the business challenges we face. Ben E. Keith is an equal employment opportunity, affirmative action employer. VEVRAA Federal Contractor