IT - Lead Platform Engineer

Lead Platform Engineer (Azure Platform Engineering)

Jasper, IN
• Full-Time
• Senior Technical Leadership Role

Position Overview: Jasper Engines & Transmissions is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to drive the next phase of our enterprise platform evolution.

This role is a hands-on technical leadership position responsible for shaping, building, and operating the Azure-based platform that powers our Infinity modernization initiative and future digital capabilities across the organization.

You will operate at the intersection of Architecture, Platform Engineering, Dev Ops, and Application Development, translating architectural intent into practical, scalable engineering solutions while enabling development teams to deliver faster, more consistently, and with higher quality.

This is not a people management role. Instead, it is a high-impact technical leadership position focused on building platform capability, establishing standards, and improving engineering effectiveness at scale.

Over time, this role will help evolve our current Dev Ops model into a mature Platform Engineering organization focused on self-service enablement, developer experience, and operational excellence.

What This Role Owns:

Platform Engineering & Cloud Operations

• Own the evolution, and operation of the Azure platform supporting Infinity and enterprise applications
• Lead implementation of event-driven and cloud-native services including:
  • Azure Functions, Container Apps, Service Bus
  • API Management, Cosmos DB, Storage, Key Vault
• Establish secure, scalable patterns for:
  • Networking, private connectivity, and hybrid integration
• Continuously improve platform:
  • Reliability, scalability, performance, security, and cost efficiency
• Deliver reusable platform services and standardized patterns across teams

Platform Strategy & Architecture Enablement

• Act as the primary implementation authority for platform architecture and engineering standards
• Translate architectural direction into:
  • Repeatable patterns
  • Reference implementations
  • Practical engineering guidance
• Serve as the first point of escalation for platform and implementation challenges
• Reduce delivery friction by aligning architecture with real-world execution
• Partner with Architecture, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure successful delivery

Developer Experience & Platform Enablement

• Build a platform that accelerates development teams-not controls them
• Develop and maintain:
  • Self-service deployment pipelines
  • Infrastructure provisioning
  • Monitoring and diagnostics capabilities
• Standardize:
  • Tooling, environments, templates, and platform patterns
• Improve:
  • Onboarding time
  • Engineering productivity
  • Cross-team consistency
• Drive adoption of platform capabilities through enablement and coaching

CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code

• Lead design and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops and related tooling
• Define and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform:
  • Modular, reusable, environment-aligned designs
• Automate:
  • Build, test, deploy, rollback, and operational workflows
• Improve deployment:
  • Speed
  • Reliability
  • Repeatability

Reliability, Observability & Operations

• Establish platform-wide observability using:
  • Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Grafana
• Define and track platform KPIs:
  • Availability
  • Deployment success rate
  • Recovery time
  • Engineering throughput
• Lead:
  • Incident response
  • Root-cause analysis
  • Long-term remediation
• Continuously improve operational maturity and system resilience

Modern Engineering & AI Enablement

• Evaluate and enable:
  • AI-assisted development (e.g., Git Hub Copilot, MCP workflows)
  • Automation and developer productivity tooling
• Identify opportunities to reduce engineering friction across the SDLC
• Support the evolution toward:
  • Internal Developer Platforms
  • Self-service engineering ecosystems
• Partner with Architecture and Security to ensure governed adoption of emerging technologies

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years in Platform Engineering, Dev Ops, Cloud Engineering, or similar technical leadership roles
• Strong hands-on Azure experience, including:
  • Functions, Container Apps, Service Bus, APIM, Cosmos DB, Key Vault
• Experience designing:
  • Event-driven and distributed systems
  • Secure and hybrid cloud architectures
• Deep experience…