Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Ingram Content Group; La Vergne (TN); Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Ingram Content Group in the United States is hiring a Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure and automation across Azure and Google Cloud.

The role requires 5+ years in systems and cloud/platform engineering, with hands-on experience in Kubernetes, CI/CD, and load balancing. The position is hybrid, with four days in the office in the Nashville, TN region, and offers a competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field or equivalent year-for-year work experience.
• 5+ years in systems, infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering with at least 2 years in public cloud and automation.
• Proficient in Python, PowerShell, and Bash for automation.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Experience with containerization and Kubernetes, including Helm, AKS/GKE, Traefik.
• Hands-on with Azure and Google Cloud; load balancing with HAProxy Enterprise.
• Knowledge of OpenTelemetry, monitoring, and SLO-based alerting; cloud security practices.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoots infrastructure performance and resolves tickets.
• Designs, builds, configures, tests, and maintains infrastructure components.
• Maintains systems to exceed availability, capacity, and performance goals.
• Implements security, backup, and logging strategies.
• Produces cost estimates and delivery timelines for projects.
• Develops CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure changes using GitOps workflows.

Skills

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Azure

Google Cloud

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

HAProxy

Linux

Windows Server

Cloud Security

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Terraform

Azure Resource Manager

Bicep

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Job Description

Ingram Content Group (ICG) is hiring a Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer. The Sr. Cloud Engineer resolves escalated service issues, coaches’ other engineers to resolutions, engineers and implements complex projects, and maintains and oversees assigned technology pillars. This position will require 4 days in the office, candidates must be in or willing to relocate to the Nashville, TN region.

Want to help explore and build new ways to deliver content to the world? At Ingram, our Technology team is blazing a trail by providing content distribution services to thousands of publishers with key initiatives around business intelligence, machine learning, continuous integration and omnichannel. We support diverse people and technology that highlights innovation through SaaS platforms, metadata, cloud, and containerization. Our teams are agile, and emphasize authenticity, creativity, and transparency upon a fact-based foundation. The world is reading, and it is our goal to connect as many people as possible to the content they want in the simplest ways. If you are an IT professional who strives to deliver results through collaborative partnerships, understanding what drives business,and enjoys working in a connected culture, we can’t wait to meet you!

The ideal candidate will have the following minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field or directly related year for year work experience
• 5+ years in systems, infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering, including at least 2 years working with public cloud and infrastructure automation

We have a preference for:

• Demonstrated proficiency with Python, PowerShell, and Bash for automation and tooling
• Proficiency with Git, including branching strategies, pull request review, and repository and workflow management
• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI, including pipeline authoring and release automation
• Demonstrated experience with containerization and Kubernetes, including Helm, managed Kubernetes services (AKS/GKE), Traefik ingress, and container image build and registry workflows
• Hands-on experience operating production workloads in public cloud (Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud), including compute, networking, identity, storage, and cost management
• Demonstrated production experience administering software load balancers, specifically HAProxy Enterprise or equivalent, including frontend and backend configuration, ACLs, health checks, and TLS termination
• Working knowledge of Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing concepts, including session persistence, health checking, and HTTP routing
• Working knowledge of Linux and Windows Server administration in cloud-hosted environments, including hardening and patching
• Experience with metrics, logs, and distributed tracing, including OpenTelemetry instrumentation and SLO-based alerting
• Working knowledge of cloud security practices including least privilege, network segmentation, secrets management, hardening baselines, and vulnerability remediation

The Sr. Cloud Engineer’s key responsibilities are:

• Troubleshoots problems related to physical and virtual infrastructure performance and resolves trouble tickets as assigned
• Manages, participates, or performs tasks related to specific projects to implement new technology as assigned
• Designs, builds, configures, integrates, deploys and tests infrastructure components, operating systems, application software and system management tools
• Designs, builds, maintains and monitors systems and platforms ensuring they consistently exceed defined goals for availability, capacity, efficiency, scalability, and performance
• Designs, builds, implements, and maintains security, redundancy, backup, and logging strategies
• Evaluates, maintains, and modifies established best practices for infrastructure maintenance and asset management
• Creates and maintains custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on manual tasks
• Creates and maintains documentation for system configurations, runbooks, and administration procedures in the team's designated knowledge base
• Produces solution designs and technical specifications, including cost estimates, resource requirements, and delivery timelines
• Sets technical goals and delivery milestones for assigned projects and drives them to completion, coordinating with project management and stakeholder teams
• Implements and utilizes configuration automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• Partners with architecture and security teams to define and implement automation standards and reusable infrastructure patterns
• Implements and utilizes IaC tools such as Terraform, Bicep, and Azure Resource Manager to consistently provision resources
• Deploys and maintains monitoring and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and enterprise platforms in use), and builds dashboards and alerting that reflect service-level objectives
• Organizes priorities, escalates problems as needed, and communicates effectively with manager, co-workers, and clients
• Participates in vendor and technology evaluations, including proof-of-concept work, technical due diligence, and total-cost analysis
• Mentors and develops other engineers through code review, pairing, runbook development, and knowledge transfer, and continuously improves team processes
• Builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform changes, using GitOps workflows for deployment and drift detection
• Operates and upgrades managed Kubernetes platforms, including cluster lifecycle, autoscaling, ingress, and workload onboarding
• Owns vulnerability remediation and patching for assigned platforms against defined SLAs, coordinating with security on risk acceptance and exception handling
• Designs, configures, and maintains application load balancing services using HAProxy Enterprise, including frontend and backend configuration, health checks, ACL-based routing, and TLS termination
• Maintains high availability of load balancing tiers, including redundant and clustered configurations, failover testing, and zero-downtime configuration reloads and upgrades
• Onboards applications to load balancing services and implements traffic management patterns such as weighted routing, blue/green and canary releases, and rate limiting
• Manages TLS certificate lifecycle for load-balanced services, including issuance, renewal automation, and cipher and protocol standards

Hiring Salary Range: $110,981 - $141,123. This range represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary for this position. It will be determined by factors including but not limited to: the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, geographic location, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Additional Information

The world is reading, and Ingram Content Group ("Ingram") connects people with content in all forms. Providing comprehensive services for publishers, retailers, libraries and educators, Ingram makes these services seamless and accessible through technology, innovation and creativity. With an expansive global network of offices and facilities, Ingram’s services include digital and physical book distribution, print