Sr. Platform Engineer

Ingram Barge Company•Nashville, TN

19h

About The Position

Ingram Marine Group is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer in Nashville, Tennessee. The role builds and operates platform capabilities that enable application teams to deliver and run services reliably on Azure. It includes developing reusable CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation, operating Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), improving observability and cloud cost management, and supporting production systems through incident response and on-call coverage.

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 experience developing GitLab CI/CD pipelines, reusable templates, and developer enablement.
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.
Experience with incident management, post-mortem processes, and 24x7 on-call work with escalation procedures.
Experience planning and implementing disaster recovery.
Knowledge of security best practices in CI/CD and infrastructure.
Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing.
Experience collaborating with application, infrastructure, architecture, and security teams.
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities under pressure.
Experience with documentation, platform standards, runbooks, and knowledge-sharing practices.
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, Application Insights, or other additional monitoring tools.
FinOps certification or cost optimization experience.
Experience with alerting tools and PagerDuty integration.

Responsibilities

Design and implement reusable GitLab CI/CD pipeline capabilities and standardized templates.
Develop and maintain reusable Terraform modules and self-service infrastructure provisioning patterns.
Create and optimize Ansible playbooks and platform automation 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) as a reliable, scalable application platform.
Develop and optimize reusable Helm charts and deployment standards for application teams.
Implement and manage GitOps workflows for consistent, repeatable application delivery.
Partner with application teams to monitor and troubleshoot containerized applications, platform services, and cluster performance.
Apply Infrastructure as Code practices and build 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, including right-sizing, reserved instances, and auto-scaling policies.
Develop dashboards and reports for cost tracking and forecasting.
Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to optimize platform resource allocation and reduce waste.
Design Prometheus-based metrics collection and build and maintain Grafana dashboards for infrastructure, application, and business metrics.
Configure alerting rules and escalation procedures, and establish SLIs, SLOs, 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 runbooks and documentation for operational procedures.