Senior Platform Engineer: Python & Kubernetes Automation

GTN Technical Staffing; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GTN Technical Staffing is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to build backend services, APIs, internal tooling, and automation that support large-scale infrastructure environments.

This software-first role emphasizes Python, Kubernetes, platform engineering, and infrastructure automation, delivering production-quality solutions to improve reliability, scalability, observability, and self-service capabilities for complex systems.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background building backend services, APIs, internal tools, or automation.
• Strong Python development skills or experience with another modern backend language.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, version control, and code review.
• Experience building infrastructure or platform automation.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, Jinja2, or similar technologies.
• Experience integrating systems through APIs or event-driven workflows.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, routing, load balancing, and firewalls.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Build backend services, APIs, internal tools, and automation platforms.
• Develop production-quality software using Python or similar backend languages.
• Build tooling across Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, lifecycle management, and operational workflows.
• Build monitoring, observability, and reliability capabilities.
• Troubleshoot issues across software, Kubernetes, infrastructure, and network-adjacent systems.
• Partner with Platform, Infrastructure, Security, and Network teams.
• Reduce manual operations through scalable automation and self-service tooling.

Skills

Python

Kubernetes

Platform engineering

Infrastructure automation

APIs

CI/CD

Backend services

Event-driven workflows

Networking basics

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jinja2

Job description

GTN Technical Staffing is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to build backend services, APIs, internal tooling, and automation that support large-scale infrastructure environments.

This software-first role emphasizes Python, Kubernetes, platform engineering, and infrastructure automation, delivering production-quality solutions to improve reliability, scalability, observability, and self-service capabilities for complex systems.