Platform Engineer (Automation & Reliability)

New York, NY, US • Posted 2 days ago • Updated 1 hour ago
Contract W2
On-site
USD $70.00 - 75.00 per hour
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Skills

  • Financial Services
  • Productivity
  • Reporting
  • Service Operations
  • Dashboard
  • Collaboration
  • Authorization
  • Optimization
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Capacity Management
  • Operational Excellence
  • Python
  • Linux
  • Scripting
  • Grafana
  • SQL
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Jenkins
  • GitLab
  • Continuous Integration
  • GitHub
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Web Applications
  • OAuth
  • SSO
  • Authentication
  • Problem Solving
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • Cloud Computing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Budget
  • Database
  • Scalability
  • MEAN Stack
  • Customer Service
  • Training And Development
  • SAP BASIS

Summary

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Platform Engineer (Automation & Reliability) for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in New York, NY.

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.
Required Skills :
  • 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.
SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .

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SGA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of Race, Color, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Religion, National Origin, Disability, Veteran Status, Age, Marital Status, Pregnancy, Genetic Information, or Other Legally Protected Status. We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, and our services, programs, and activities. Please visit our company to request an accommodation or assistance regarding our policy.
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
  • Dice Id: sgainc
  • Position Id: 26-01770
  • Posted 2 days ago

Company Info

About Software Guidance & Assistance

Founded in 1981, SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider with a national footprint and headquartered in the shadow of Wall Street. We’re a certified women-owned business. We provide contingent staffing, direct placement, and professional and managed services to transform businesses and evolve careers. We’re small enough to tailor our services to each client and big enough to deliver for some of the world’s largest employers. Our professionals are experts in areas such as IT, finance, accounting, risk, and clinical.

SGA provides contingent staffing, direct placement, and professional and managed services nationwide for Fortune 500 companies, mid-size businesses and select startups.

Our core skillsets include all areas of technology – business & data analysis, cyber & network security, database administration, development & architecture, infrastructure, program & project management, quality assurance & testing. We also deliver talent across professional business functions such as finance, accounting, risk, and clinical.

Our Professional & Managed Services team delivers IT projects through onshore, offshore and hybrid delivery models. We develop software products, modernize applications, add features, and integrate and maintain systems. Our scope covers, among others, complex application suites, data management and visualizations, machine learning and mobile applications.

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