Platform Engineer / Python Engineer

Job Description

Our client is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer / Python Engineer to join their engineering team. This engineer will also need to be skilled with Infrastructure As A Service and the supporting / enabling tools.

Required Skills - Python, Platform engineering, Infrastructure As A Service

Job Duties

• Platform Engineering using Python
• Strong understanding of Continuous Delivery and Integration frameworks including deployment automation, configuration management, test, and source code/git repositories; experience with containers desired
• Experience using Git and continuous delivery build systems (build/test/release infrastructure, Jenkins preferred)
• Experience and preference for working within an Agile/Scrum environment Knowledge of core internet protocols including, but not limited to TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP
• Knowledge of network administration including, but not limited to Load balancers, VLAN, IP sub netting, proxies and firewalls, architecture, and core technologies (DNS, routing, iptables etc.)
• Experience supporting LDAP services in an enterprise environment

Job Requirements

• 8 years software engineering using Python
• 8 years of experience building automation/configuration management infrastructure such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, and/or Puppet Experience leveraging Docker within a local development workflow
• 6 years of experience with deployment of production code leveraging Docker containers
• 3 years of experience in Java, Perl, and/or Ruby
• Strong background in Linux administration and network administration
• Experience using cloud services (AWS and Azure preferred); public cloud IaaS and PaaS services
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems architectures. Examples include Java/Spring Boot, CQRS, event streaming, Kafka, Spark Knowledge in databases

Desired Skills & Experience

• Groovy
• Go / Golang
• Chaos Engineering