Sr. Platform Engineer

Ingram Barge Company•Nashville, TN

13h

About The Position

Ingram Marine Group is hiring a Sr. Platform Engineer in Nashville, Tennessee. This role designs and maintains reusable platform capabilities, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and Kubernetes services on Azure. The engineer partners with application teams to deliver and operate containerized applications, improve platform reliability and security, and manage cloud costs. The position also supports production operations through a 24x7 on-call rotation, Tier 3 incident response, root-cause analysis, and operational documentation.

Requirements

At least 5 years of technical experience.
Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration; AKS is preferred.
Proficiency with Terraform and Ansible for Infrastructure as Code.
Advanced GitLab CI/CD pipeline development, reusable templates, and developer enablement experience.
Experience with GitOps methodologies and tools such as Helm, Flux, and/or ArgoCD.
Python scripting experience for platform automation, integrations, and pipeline tasks.
Knowledge of Azure cloud services, identity, and networking concepts.
Hands-on experience with Prometheus for metrics collection and alerting.
Proficiency with Grafana dashboards and data visualization.
Experience with Azure Cost Management tools and FinOps practices.
Knowledge of resource optimization techniques, auto-scaling strategies, cloud pricing models, and cost allocation methods.
Knowledge of incident management and post-mortem processes.
24x7 on-call experience with escalation procedures.
Experience planning and implementing disaster recovery.
Knowledge of security best practices for CI/CD and infrastructure.
Collaborative experience with application, infrastructure, architecture, and security teams.
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills under pressure.
Experience with documentation, platform standards, runbooks, and knowledge sharing.
Comfort with 24x7 on-call rotation responsibilities.

Nice To Haves

Azure certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-400, AZ-305, or an AKS-related certification.
Experience with message bus systems such as Azure Service Bus.
Knowledge of .NET applications and Angular frontend deployments, including developer workflows and platform integration needs.
Familiarity with secret management solutions such as Delinea or similar tools.
Experience with Azure Monitor or Application Insights.
FinOps certification or cost optimization experience.
Experience with alerting tools and PagerDuty integration.
Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing.

Responsibilities

Design and maintain reusable GitLab CI/CD pipeline capabilities and standardized templates.
Develop reusable Terraform modules and self-service infrastructure provisioning patterns.
Create and optimize Ansible playbooks for configuration management and application deployment.
Embed security scanning, compliance checks, and platform guardrails into deployment workflows.
Build, configure, and maintain Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Develop reusable Helm charts and application deployment standards.
Implement and manage GitOps workflows for consistent application delivery.
Partner with application teams to monitor and troubleshoot containerized applications, platform services, and cluster performance.
Apply Infrastructure as Code practices and maintain reusable platform components using Terraform and Ansible.
Design and execute disaster recovery procedures and business continuity plans.
Perform system patching, upgrades, and maintenance.
Establish and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions using Prometheus and Grafana.
Analyze Azure cloud spending and resource utilization, and implement cost optimization strategies such as right-sizing, reserved instances, and auto-scaling.
Develop dashboards and reports for cost tracking and forecasting; collaborate with teams to optimize resource allocation and reduce waste.
Configure Prometheus metrics collection, Grafana dashboards, alerting rules, and escalation procedures.
Establish service-level indicators, service-level objectives, and error budgets for critical services.
Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and lead Tier 3 incident response for production outages and system issues.
Perform root-cause analysis and implement preventive measures.
Collaborate with development teams on performance optimization and troubleshooting.
Maintain operational runbooks and documentation.
Work with cross-functional application, infrastructure, architecture, and security teams.