Job Title: Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer
Position 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