Job Title: Platform Engineer / DevOps EngineerPosition Type: Full-Time Contract (40hrs/week)Contract Duration: 12+ months with extensionsWork Schedule: 8 hours/day (Mon-Fri)Work Hours: ESTLocation: 100% Remote - (Candidates can work from anywhere in LATAM Countries)OverviewWe’re hiring a hands-on Platform / DevOps Engineer to 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 enables 100–150 engineers to ship code efficiently and reliably.You’ll 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 You’ll 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 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