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 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 organizations What 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