Platform Engineer (Automation & Reliability)

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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