Jobs / Ingram Barge Company
Sr. Platform Engineer
Ingram Barge Company · Nashville, TN, United States
Nashville, TN, United StatesExp: 5+ yrsOnsite
Remuneration
Competitive compensation package; medical, prescription drug, HSA, vision, dental, and health care FSA plans; paid time off; 401(k) match from the first day of hire; life and AD&D insurance; employee assistance programs; group legal benefits; internal training; tuition reimbursement
Location
Nashville, TN, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Senior Platform Engineer builds and operates a scalable Azure platform that enables application teams to deploy and run containerized services reliably, securely, and cost-effectively. The role develops GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Terraform and Ansible automation, AKS and Helm deployment standards, and GitOps workflows; it also manages observability with Prometheus and Grafana, Azure cost optimization, disaster recovery, and Tier 3 incident response with 24x7 on-call support.
Benefits
Medical and prescription drug plansHealth savings accountVision insuranceDental insuranceHealth care flexible spending accountPaid time off401(k) match from the first day of hireLife and AD&D insuranceEmployee assistance programsGroup legal benefitsInternal trainingTuition reimbursement
Qualifications
- At least five years of technical experience.
- Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration; AKS preferred.
- Proficiency with Terraform and Ansible.
- Advanced GitLab CI/CD pipeline development and reusable templates.
- Experience with GitOps tools such as Helm, Flux, or Argo CD.
- Python scripting for platform automation, integrations, and pipeline tasks.
- Knowledge of Azure services, identity, and networking.
- Experience with Prometheus metrics collection and alerting, and Grafana dashboards.
- Experience with Azure Cost Management, FinOps, cloud pricing, and cost allocation.
- Experience with resource optimization and autoscaling strategies.
- Experience with on-call support, escalation, incident management, and postmortems.
- Experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation.
- Knowledge of CI/CD and infrastructure security best practices.
- Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing.
- Ability to collaborate across application, infrastructure, architecture, and security teams.
Responsibilities
- Design reusable GitLab CI/CD pipelines and standardized templates.
- Develop Terraform modules and self-service infrastructure provisioning patterns.
- Automate configuration management and application deployment with Ansible.
- Build and maintain Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) platforms.
- Develop reusable Helm charts and deployment standards.
- Implement GitOps workflows for repeatable application delivery.
- Embed security scanning, compliance checks, and platform guardrails in deployment workflows.
- Monitor and troubleshoot containerized applications, platform services, and cluster performance.
- Plan and execute disaster recovery and business continuity procedures.
- Perform system patching, upgrades, and maintenance.
- Build monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions with Prometheus and Grafana.
- Analyze Azure spending and resource utilization; implement cost optimization measures.
- Develop cost tracking and forecasting dashboards and reports.
- Establish service level indicators, objectives, and error budgets.
- Participate in 24x7 production support and lead Tier 3 incident response.
- Conduct root cause analysis and implement preventive measures.
- Maintain operational runbooks and documentation.
Skills
AKSAnsibleArgo CDAzureAzure MonitorAzure Service Bus.NETFluxGitLabGitLab CIGrafanaHelmKubernetesPagerDutyPrometheusPythonTerraform
Certifications
AZ-104AZ-400AZ-305AKS-related certificationFinOps certification
Languages
Python
Work schedule
24x7 on-call rotation
Industry
Inland waterway transportationBulk commodities
Relocation
No