Senior DevOps Engineer

Ingram Barge is a quality marine transporter on America's inland waterways since 1946, starting out as a small, family-owned business and growing into what we are today: the largest dry cargo carrier and one of the top chemical carriers on the river.As the leading carrier, we operate a fleet of approximately 140 towboats and 5,000 barges.We're committed to being the best at whatever we do. We're continuously growing, adapting, and responding, and we're successful because of the outstanding hard work and creative energy of our associates.

Ingram Barge is seekinga Senior DevOps Engineer to join our dynamicDevSecOps team. This person will work alongsideour Systems Architect, Application Development Architect, and SecurityEngineer and focuses on operationalizing our cloud-native infrastructure, enhancing CI/CD pipelines, ensuring system reliability and resilience, and providing24x7 operational support.

What you will be doing:

Pipeline& Automation

• Designing and implementing advanced CI/CD pipelinefeatures using GitLab

• Developing and maintaining Terraform modules for infrastructure provisioning

• Creatingand optimizingAnsible playbooks for configurationmanagement and deployment automation

• Integratingsecurity scanning and compliance checksinto deployment pipelines

Container& Kubernetes Operations

• Building, configuring, and maintaining Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters

• Developing and optimizingHelm charts for applicationdeployments

• Implementing and managingGitOps workflows
• Monitoringand troubleshooting containerized applications and cluster performance

Infrastructure & Reliability

• Implementing Infrastructure as Code best practices using Terraformand Ansible

• Designing and executingdisaster recovery procedures and business continuity plans

• Performing system patching, upgrades, and maintenance activities

• Establishing and maintaining comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions using Prometheus and Grafana

Cost Optimization & ResourceManagement

• Monitoring and analyzingAzurecloud spending patterns and resource utilization

• Implementing cost optimization strategies including right-sizing, reserved instances, and auto-scaling policies

• Developing dashboards and reports forcost tracking and forecasting

• Collaboratingwith teams to optimize resource allocation and eliminatingwaste

Monitoring & Observability

• Designing and implementing comprehensive monitoringsolutions using Prometheus for metrics collection

• Building and maintaining Grafana dashboards for infrastructure, application, and business metrics

• Configuringintelligent alerting rules and escalation procedures

• Establishing SLIs, SLOs, and errorbudgets for critical services

24x7 Support & IncidentResponse

• Participatingin on-call rotation for 24x7 production support

• Leading Tier 3 incident response efforts for production outages and systemissues

• Performing root cause analysis and implementing preventive measures

• Collaboratingwith development teams onperformance optimization and troubleshooting

• Maintaining runbooks and documentation foroperational procedures

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Technical Expertise(5+ years)

• Strong experience with Kubernetes(AKS preferred) and container orchestration

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and Ansible

• Advanced GitLab CI/CDpipeline development and optimization

• Experience with GitOps methodologies and leading toolsets like Helm, Flux and/or ArgoCD

• Pythonscripting for automation and pipeline tasks

• Azurecloud services and networking concepts

Monitoring& Cost Management

• Hands-on experience withPrometheus for metrics collection and alerting

• Proficiency in Grafana for dashboard creation and data visualization

• Experience with AzureCost Management tools and FinOps practices

• Knowledge of resource optimization techniques and auto-scaling strategies

• Understanding of cloud pricing models and cost allocation methods

DevOps & SRE Practices

• Incidentmanagement and post-mortem processes

• 24x7on-call experience withescalation procedures

• Disaster recovery planningand implementation

• Securitybest practices in CI/CD and infrastructure

• Experience with chaosengineering and resilience testing

Collaborative Skills

• Experience working with cross-functional teams

• Strongtroubleshooting and problem-solving abilities under pressure

• Documentation and knowledge sharing practices

• Comfortable with24x7 on-call rotation responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-400, or AKS-related)

• Experiencewith message bus systems (AzureService Bus)

• Knowledge of.NET applications and Angular frontend deployments

• Familiarity withsecret management solutions(Delinea or similar)

• Experience with additionalmonitoring tools (Azure Monitor, Application Insights)

• FinOps certificationor cost optimization experience

• Experience with alerting tools and PagerDutyintegration

Why You Should Apply:

• Professional and financial growth opportunities
• Medical benefits
• Retirement benefits

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

If you are requesting reasonable accommodation or disability assistance in submitting your application, you may email us at Recruiting@ingrambarge.com

Ingram Marine Group and its affiliates ("Company") is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, work related mental or physical disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or genetic information.

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