Sr. Platform Engineer (Python)

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Mandatory Skills: Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Ci/Cd, Site Reliability Engineering, AWS

Required Qualifications

• -6+ years of relevant experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering
• Strong Python skills with experience building production-grade automation and tooling
• Strong programming experience in Python
• - Production experience with Kubernetes
• - Strong observability fundamentals
• - Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, Argo Rollout and Docker, Ansible, Packer
• - Experience with AWS cloud
• - Strong Linux and networking fundamentals
• - Familiarity with the SDLC

Reliability &

• Operations

• - Design, build, and maintain scalable platform services and internal developer tooling using Python
• - Develop automation frameworks, orchestration systems, and backend infrastructure services
• - Improve platform reliability, observability, deployment automation, and operational excellence
• - Drive infrastructure-as-code and cloud automation initiatives
• - Implement best practices around security, monitoring, testing, and production operations
• - Design, implement, and maintain highly available and resilient systems in Kubernetes-based environments
• - Contribute to architectural decisions for distributed systems and cloud-native applications
• - Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence across the organization
• - Lead incident response, RCA, and postmortems
• - Drive reliability improvements through automation

Cloud &

• Platform Engineering

• - Build and manage infrastructure on AWS.
• - Operate Kubernetes clusters (EKS preferred)
• - Deploy services using Helm, ArgoCD and Argo rollout
• - Manage containerized workloads using Docker and containerd
• - Terraform
• - Python Programming
• - Ansible
• - Packer
• - GitHub Actions / Jenkins / ArgoCD
• - Prometheus / Grafana / Datadog/ Splunk

Automation &

• Tooling

• Strong Python skills with emphasis on reliability, automation, and observability tooling
• - Develop automation and tooling using Python
• - Create internal reliability and monitoring tools
• - Integrate CI/CD pipelines with observability and reliability checks

Collaboration &

• Leadership

• - Mentor junior engineers
• - Influence architecture decisions
• - Collaborate across engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications

• - Experience with tool chain development using Python
• - AWS Experience
• - Ansible, Packer
• - Multi-cluster or multi-region Kubernetes experience
• - Experience with Kubernetes package manager (helm) and deployment (ArgoCD / Argo Rollout)
• - Service mesh (Istio) and API gateway (Kong) experience
• - Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred)
• - Cloud cost optimization experience