Platform Engineer / Devops Engineer - This is a boots-on-the-ground execution role not 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