Sr. Platform Engineer (Python)
Job Summary
Mandatory Skills
Python Terraform Kubernetes Ci/Cd Site Reliability Engineering AWS
Required Qualifications
-6 years of relevant experience in SRE DevOps or Platform Engineering
Strong Python skills with experience building production-grade automation and tooling
Strong programming experience in Python
- Production experience with Kubernetes
- Strong observability fundamentals
- Experience with Helm ArgoCD Argo Rollout and Docker Ansible Packer
- Experience with AWS cloud
- Strong Linux and networking fundamentals
- Familiarity with the SDLC
Reliability & Operations
- Design build and maintain scalable platform services and internal developer tooling using Python
- Develop automation frameworks orchestration systems and backend infrastructure services
- Improve platform reliability observability deployment automation and operational excellence
- Drive infrastructure-as-code and cloud automation initiatives
- Implement best practices around security monitoring testing and production operations
- Design implement and maintain highly available and resilient systems in Kubernetes-based environments
- Contribute to architectural decisions for distributed systems and cloud-native applications
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence across the organization
- Lead incident response RCA and postmortems
- Drive reliability improvements through automation
Cloud & Platform Engineering
- Build and manage infrastructure on AWS.
- Operate Kubernetes clusters (EKS preferred)
- Deploy services using Helm ArgoCD and Argo rollout
- Manage containerized workloads using Docker and containerd
- Terraform
- Python Programming
- Ansible
- Packer
- GitHub Actions / Jenkins / ArgoCD
- Prometheus / Grafana / Datadog/ Splunk
Automation & Tooling
- Strong Python skills with emphasis on reliability automation and observability tooling
- Develop automation and tooling using Python
- Create internal reliability and monitoring tools
- Integrate CI/CD pipelines with observability and reliability checks
Collaboration & Leadership
- Mentor junior engineers
- Influence architecture decisions
- Collaborate across engineering teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with tool chain development using Python
- AWS Experience
- Ansible Packer
- Multi-cluster or multi-region Kubernetes experience
- Experience with Kubernetes package manager (helm) and deployment (ArgoCD / Argo Rollout)
- Service mesh (Istio) and API gateway (Kong) experience
- Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred)
- Cloud cost optimization experience
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
At Virtusa, we are builders, makers, and doers. Digital engineering is in our DNA. It’s at the heart of everything we do.