Devops Automation Engineer (Python)
SOHO Square Solutions
New York, United States of America
yesterday
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
EnglishJob location
New York, United States of America
Tech stack
API
Artificial Intelligence
Application Frameworks
Cloud Engineering
Databases
Continuous Integration
Linux
Github
Python
OAuth
Reliability Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering Practices
Ansible
Prometheus
Service-Oriented Architecture
SQL Databases
Web Applications
Data Logging
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Grafana
Software Troubleshooting
Database Performance
Gitlab-ci
Kubernetes
Terraform
Docker
Jenkins
Job description
- 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.
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
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.