IT - Lead Platform Engineer

Position Overview

Lead Platform Engineer (Azure Platform Engineering) Jasper, IN Full-Time Senior Technical Leadership Role. 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 r 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.

• 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.

• Act as the primary implementation authority for platform architecture and engineering standards.
• Translate architectural direction into repeatable patterns, reference implementations, and 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.

• 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 to improve onboarding time, engineering productivity, and cross‑team consistency.
• Drive adoption of platform capabilities through enablement and coaching.

• 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, and repeatability.

• Establish platform‑wide observability using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Grafana.
• Define and track platform KPIs: availability, deployment success rate, recovery time, and engineering throughput.
• Lead incident response, root‑cause analysis, and long‑term remediation.
• Continuously improve operational maturity and system resilience.

• 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 SDL.
• Support the evolution toward Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) and self‑service engineering ecosystems.
• Partner with Architecture and Security to ensure governed adoption of emerging technologies.

• 7+ years in Platform Engineering, Dev Ops, Cloud Engineering, or similar technical leadership roles.
• Strong hands‑on Azure experience, including Azure Functions, Container Apps, Service Bus, APIM, Cosmos DB, Key Vault.
• Experience designing…