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-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