Job Description - Platform & SRE Engineer
Experienced Platform & SRE Engineer with expertise in Python automation, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability platforms, focused on building scalable, reliable, and self-service platform solutions. Proven track record of improving developer productivity, reducing operational toil through automation, and driving reliability engineering best practices across complex enterprise environments. Skilled in platform engineering, cloud-native technologies, and operational excellence with a strong focus on scalability, resilience, and continuous improvement.
Day to Day job Duties: (what this person will do on a daily/weekly basis)
• Build and maintain platform automation solutions using Python and related tooling.
• Design, improve, and operate internal platform capabilities that enhance developer productivity and operational reliability.
• Develop reusable frameworks and tooling for deployments, monitoring, remediation, reporting, and self-service operations.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support reliable and repeatable software delivery.
• Drive observability initiatives using metrics, dashboards, logging, monitoring, and alerting platforms.
• Collaborate with application teams to improve platform adoption, deployment standards, and operational excellence.
• Support and enhance Kubernetes-based application platforms and deployment frameworks.
• Work with authentication and authorization technologies including OAuth2, SSO, and JWT.
• Analyze application, infrastructure, and database performance to identify optimization opportunities.
• Contribute to reliability engineering practices including automation, resilience, capacity planning, and operational readiness.
• Partner with engineering teams to reduce operational toil through automation and platform improvements.
Basic Qualifications:
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in Python development, automation, and software engineering.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience building operational tooling, automation frameworks, platform services, or developer productivity solutions.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience administering Linux systems and developing shell scripting solutions.
• Minimum 3+ years of experience with observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions.
• Strong understanding of SQL and database fundamentals.
• Minimum 3+ years of experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms.
• Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker in enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of web applications, APIs, microservices, and distributed service architectures.
• Experience with OAuth2, SSO, JWT, and modern authentication technologies.