Platform Engineer / Devops Engineer - This is a boots-on-the-ground execution rolenot advisoryfocused on building, operating, and improving the infrastructure and tooling that enables 100150 engineers to ship code efficiently and reliably. Youll 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 Youll DoOperate 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 troubleshootingSupport and enhance CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI preferred; Jenkins/GitHub Actions acceptable)Maintain and improve self-service workflows, templates, and developer golden pathsWork with observability tools (Prometheus, Alertmanager, Thanos, OpenTelemetry) to monitor systems and improve signal qualityAssist with service instrumentation across logging, metrics, and tracingContribute to documentation: runbooks, onboarding guides, SOPsParticipate in on-call rotation and support incident responseOptimize infrastructure for cost, performance, and reliabilityAutomate repetitive tasks using scripting (Python/Bash)Must-Have Requirements6 years in Platform Engineering / DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure rolesStrong AWS experience (IAM, EC2/EKS, S3, CloudWatch, etc. )Deep Kubernetes expertise:Operating and maintaining clustersExperience building Kubernetes environmentsHands-on Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)Python scripting (mandatory) for automation and toolingExperience owning and maintaining CI/CD pipelinesStrong Linux fundamentalsSolid understanding of observability concepts (metrics, logs, tracing)Preferred QualificationsExperience with GitLab CIExposure to OpenTelemetryAPI integration or tooling development (Python/Go/Java)Experience supporting large engineering teams (100 developers)Familiarity with security in CI/CD or infrastructure workflowsMulti-cloud exposure (Azure/GCP alongside AWS)Background in mid-size, modern engineering organizationsWhat Were NOT Looking ForNo 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 Structure1 Principal Engineer1 Senior Engineer1 Engineer (India)You = 4th key team member