Position: Platform Automation Engineer (Python & Kubernetes)
Location: New York, New York
Duration: Contract
Job ID: 178233
Job Overview: We are seeking a skilled and motivated Application Development professional to join our team at Level 3. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining platform automation solutions, enhancing developer productivity, and ensuring operational reliability. This role involves working with cutting-edge technologies, including Python, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability platforms, to deliver high-quality solutions that improve platform adoption and operational excellence.
Responsibilities: - Build and maintain platform automation solutions using Python and related tooling.
- Design, improve, and operate internal platform capabilities to 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.
Qualifications: - 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.
Nice to Have: - Experience with Ansible, Terraform, or Helm.
- Platform Engineering or Internal Developer Platform experience.
- Experience building self-healing or auto-remediation solutions.
- Knowledge of cloud-native architectures and services.
- AI-assisted automation and operational tooling.
- Familiarity with SRE practices, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
Who You Are: - An engineer who enjoys building solutions that eliminate manual effort.
- Passionate about automation, reliability, and engineering efficiency.
- Comfortable working across infrastructure, platforms, applications, and databases.
- Focused on improving developer experience while maintaining operational excellence.
- A systems thinker who balances reliability, scalability, and delivery speed.
About PTR Global: PTR Global is a leading provider of information technology and workforce solutions. PTR Global has become one of the largest providers in its industry, with over 5000 professionals providing services across the U.S. and Canada. For more information visit ;br>
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Pay Range: $70- $75/hr
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