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 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 organizationsWhat Were 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