Platform Engineer (Automation & Reliability)

Responsibilities

• 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, 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.
• Focused on improving developer experience while maintaining operational excellence.

Requirements

• Strong Python development and automation experience.
• Experience building operational tooling, automation frameworks, or platform services.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems and scripting.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, alerting, logging, and monitoring solutions.
• Good understanding of SQL and database fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, etc.).
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker in enterprise environments.
• Understanding of web applications, APIs, and service architectures.
• Experience with OAuth, SSO, JWT, or similar authentication technologies.
• Strong troubleshooting and system-level problem-solving skills.

Preferred Skills

• Ansible, Terraform, or Helm.
• Platform Engineering or Internal Developer Platform experience.
• Experience building self-healing or auto-remediation solutions.
• Cloud-native architectures and services.
• AI-assisted automation and operational tooling.
• SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Enjoy building solutions that eliminate manual effort.
• Passionate about automation, reliability, and engineering efficiency.
• Comfortable working across infrastructure, platforms, applications, and databases.
• A systems thinker who balances reliability, scalability, and delivery speed.

Qualifications

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc. (SGA) is seeking a Platform Engineer (Automation & Reliability) for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in New York, NY. SGA is a women-owned business committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. Please visit our company EEO page for more information on accommodations or assistance regarding our policy.