Job Title: Platform Engineer / DevOps EngineerPosition 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-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 organizations What 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