Job Title:Platform Engineer / DevOps EngineerPosition 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-onPlatform / DevOps Engineerto 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 enables100–150 engineersto ship code efficiently and reliably.You'll work closely with a lean team (Principal + Senior Engineers) and play a critical role inday-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) ManageKubernetes environments: deployments, Helm charts, namespaces, rollout troubleshooting Support and enhanceCI/CD pipelines(GitLab CI preferred; Jenkins/GitHub Actions acceptable) Maintain and improveself-service workflows, templates, and developer "golden paths" Work with observability tools (Prometheus, Alertmanager, Thanos, OpenTelemetry) to monitor systems and improve signal quality Assist withservice instrumentationacross logging, metrics, and tracing Contribute to documentation: runbooks, onboarding guides, SOPs Participate inon-call rotationand support incident response Optimize infrastructure forcost, performance, and reliability Automate repetitive tasks using scripting (Python/Bash)Must-Have Requirements 6+ yearsin Platform Engineering / DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure roles StrongAWS experience(IAM, EC2/EKS, S3, CloudWatch, etc.) DeepKubernetes expertise: Operating and maintaining clusters Experience building Kubernetes environments Hands-onTerraform (Infrastructure as Code) Python scripting (mandatory)for automation and tooling Experience owning and maintainingCI/CD pipelines StrongLinux fundamentals Solid understanding ofobservability concepts(metrics, logs, tracing)Preferred Qualifications Experience withGitLab CI Exposure toOpenTelemetry API integration or tooling development (Python/Go/Java) Experience supportinglarge engineering teams (100+ developers) Familiarity withsecurity in CI/CD or infrastructure workflows Multi-cloud exposure (Azure/GCP alongside AWS) Background inmid-size, modern engineering organizationsWhat 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