job specification

Job Title: Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer

Position Type: Full-Time Contract (40hrs/week)

Contract Duration: 12+ months with extensions

Work Schedule: 8 hours/day (Mon-Fri)

Work Hours: EST

Location: 100% Remote - (Candidates can work from anywhere in LATAM Countries)

Overview

We’re hiring a hands-on Platform / DevOps Engineer to join a small, high-impact platform team. This is a “boots-on-the-ground” execution role —not advisory—focused on building, operating, and improving the infrastructure and tooling that enables 100–150 engineers to ship code efficiently and reliably.

You’ll work closely with a lean team (Principal + Senior Engineers) and play a critical role in day-to-day platform operations, automation, and developer enablement .

What You’ll Do

• Operate and improve platform tools to support engineering teams (triaging tickets, resolving build issues, handling access/secrets/env setup)
• Manage Kubernetes environments : deployments, Helm charts, namespaces, rollout troubleshooting
• Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI preferred; Jenkins/GitHub Actions acceptable)
• Maintain and improve self-service workflows , templates, and developer “golden paths”
• Work with observability tools ( Prometheus, Alertmanager, Thanos, OpenTelemetry ) to monitor systems and improve signal quality
• Assist with service instrumentation across logging, metrics, and tracing
• Contribute to documentation: runbooks, onboarding guides, SOPs
• Participate in on-call rotation and support incident response
• Optimize infrastructure for cost, performance, and reliability
• Automate repetitive tasks using scripting (Python/Bash)

Must-Have Requirements

• 6+ years in Platform Engineering / DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure roles
• Strong AWS experience (IAM, EC2/EKS, S3, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Deep Kubernetes expertise :
• Operating and maintaining clusters
• Experience building Kubernetes environments
• Hands-on Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
• Python scripting (mandatory) for automation and tooling
• Experience owning and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Strong Linux fundamentals
• Solid understanding of observability concepts (metrics, logs, tracing)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GitLab CI
• Exposure to OpenTelemetry
• API integration or tooling development (Python/Go/Java)
• Experience supporting large engineering teams (100+ developers)
• Familiarity with security in CI/CD or infrastructure workflows
• Multi-cloud exposure (Azure/GCP alongside AWS)
• Background in mid-size, modern engineering organizations

What We’re NOT Looking For

• No Kubernetes experience ❌
• Bash-only engineers (no Python) ❌
• Pure consulting/advisory profiles ❌
• Pure security-focused candidates ❌
• Heavy enterprise/banking-only backgrounds ❌
• ML/Data Science profiles ❌

Team Structure

• 1 Principal Engineer
• 1 Senior Engineer
• 1 Engineer (India)
• You = 4th key team member