Platform & SRE Engineer

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.