India - Fabric Platform Engineer (Azure DevOps)

• Who are Inchcape
• At Inchcape Shipping Services, our vision is to create a connected world where customers can trade successfully and make informed decisions in every port, everywhere. We achieve this by combining our worldwide infrastructure with local expertise, through our global network of more than 250 proprietary offices and a team of over 3,000 dedicated professionals. Our diverse customer base includes owners and charterers in the oil, cruise, container, and bulk commodity sectors, as well as naval, government, and intergovernmental organizations.

We have an ambitious growth model, and a career here is certainly going to be a rewarding one that will allow you to bring your skills & experience. We embrace change and are open to new thinking and pushing for positive change in our industry.

Job Location : Remote

Contract Type : Permanent

Main Purpose of Job

The Fabric Platform Engineer owns the technical foundations of ISS's Data & Reporting Platform a production-grade Microsoft Fabric environment that serves as the single source of truth for operational and commercial reporting across a global maritime shipping business operating in 60+ countries.

This role is responsible for the infrastructure, DevOps, connectivity, security model, and operational reliability of the platform. The Fabric Platform Engineer ensures that the gateway and network connectivity between ISS source systems and Fabric are always-on and production-grade; that platform artefacts are deployed safely and repeatably through CI/CD pipelines; that access controls, service principals, and secrets are correctly managed; and that the platform is observable, monitorable, and recoverable under production conditions.

This is a founding permanent role within the Fabric Data Team, assuming ownership of capabilities currently held by the external project delivery team. The role requires a professional who can operate independently at a senior level, takes end-to-end ownership of platform reliability, and understands that the platform's availability directly affects ISS's ability to serve its external shipping principal customers.

Key Accountabilities

Operate the Microsoft Fabric platform infrastructure including workspace topology, capacity allocation, and environment separation (Dev / UAT / Prod).

Own the hybrid connectivity layer between ISS source systems (OpticDB, World of Ports, Boomi, Eye-Share, Unit4) and Fabric, including AWS-hosted On-Premises Data Gateway clusters, site-to-site VPN configurations, and VPC Peering. Ensure gateway high availability in production through clustered EC2 configurations managed via Terraform.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for automated deployment of Fabric artefacts across environments. Define and enforce the branching strategy, pull request governance, and release process for all platform assets stored in Azure DevOps Git repositories.

Implement and govern the platform access model: Entra ID (Azure AD) group structure, workspace RBAC assignments, and environment-specific permission controls. Own the Service Principal strategy, credential lifecycle management, secrets rotation via Azure Key Vault, and IAM review cadence.

Configure and maintain the Power BI App Owns Data embedding architecture for internal ISS applications (e.g. Optic / OneCape), including authentication flows, workspace access grants, and Row-Level Security (RLS) validation for both internal users and external shipping principals (B2B guest identities).

Implement and manage platform monitoring across all layers: Fabric capacity utilisation dashboards, pipeline execution health, gateway connectivity, and EC2 instance performance via Amazon CloudWatch. Define alerting thresholds, escalation paths, and own first-line incident triage for infrastructure-level issues.

Onboard new data sources using the established ingestion framework and connectivity patterns, without requiring bespoke infrastructure changes. Manage new external customer

onboarding: create Entra ID security groups, grant workspace access, and insert Row-Level Security entries into the Gold Warehouse per the agreed process.

Own the Fabric capacity cost model: conduct monthly reviews of CU consumption across Non-Prod and Prod capacities, attribute costs by workload, and report findings with scaling recommendations to the Head of Fabric Data Platform

Support the Enterprise Data Architect in registering Gold data assets in Microsoft Purview: metadata tagging, lineage documentation, and ownership assignment. Contribute to platform development standards, naming conventions, and engineering artefact templates.

Identify opportunities to automate operational workflows using Power Automate and the broader Microsoft Power Platform, including licence request approval flows, platform alert notifications, and data pipeline trigger automation.

Stay current with the Microsoft Fabric and Azure DevOps roadmap; evaluate new features and capabilities relevant to ISS's platform model and advise the team on adoption opportunities.

Key Deliverables :

A production-grade Fabric platform infrastructure managed as code (Terraform), with documented gateway architecture, environment topology, and deployment runbooks available in Azure DevOps.

Fully operational CI/CD pipelines for Fabric artefact promotion across Dev / UAT / Prod, with enforced branching strategy and auditable release history.

A defined and implemented platform access model: Entra ID group structure, RBAC assignments, Service Principal inventory, Key Vault secrets management, and quarterly access review records.

Functioning App Owns Data Power BI embedding for the Optic and OneCape applications, with documented authentication flows, RLS configurations per shipping principal, and onboarding runbook.

Platform observability dashboards and alerting configurations across Fabric capacity, pipeline health, and gateway infrastructure; documented incident response and escalation paths.

Monthly cost and capacity reports for Fabric platform capacities, with utilisation trends and scaling recommendations, delivered to the Head of Fabric Data Platform.

Operational runbooks for all recurring BAU activities: data source onboarding, customer reporting onboarding, Power BI Pro licence management, and secrets rotation

Implement the Microsoft recommended resilient model for components and products of the Data Platform to ensure Availability, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Competency Requirements

Technical

Cloud infrastructure & IaC (Terraform)

Azure DevOps & CI/CD pipelines

Microsoft Fabric platform administration

Hybrid network connectivity (VPN, gateways)

Identity & access management (Entra ID)

Lakehouse/Warehouse Administration

Key

Attention to detail & operational rigour

Problem solving & incident diagnosis

Communication & documentation

Stakeholder collaboration

Security & risk awareness

Management

Platform governance & standards

Change & release management

Planning & prioritisation

Operational ownership mindset

Knowledge, Experience and Skills

Essential

5+ years in a platform engineering, cloud engineering, or data DevOps role, operating production cloud infrastructure with uptime and reliability responsibilities.

Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric: workspace administration, capacity management, Git integration with Azure DevOps, and Fabric Deployment Pipelines.

Strong Azure DevOps experience: CI/CD pipeline authoring, branching strategies, pull request governance, and release management for data platform artefacts.

Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform (mandatory for gateway and EC2 management).

Experience with Python or PowerShell scripting for platform automation tasks.

Hands-on AWS experience: EC2 instance management, VPC and subnet configuration, Security Groups, CloudWatch monitoring.

Experience managing On-Premises Data Gateways or