Devops Automation Engineer (Python)

Job Title: Devops Automation Engineer (Python)

Location : New York, NY (Hybrid- 3 days/week in office)

Type: Contract (C2C/W2/1099)

Client: Direct Client

Job Description

What You'll Do

• 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.

Must-Have 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

Nice to Have

• 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

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.