Senior Python Developer

Job Description

Alquemy's client is a leading financial services organization. Located in downtown Toronto, this is a hybrid role with 4 (four) days/week required on site. Our client is seeking an experienced Python Developer with strong DevOps/Cloud related skills. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and engineering AWS cloud services, driving cloud security, automation, and cost optimization, and partnering with various teams to ensure cloud standards and guidelines are implemented.

Responsibilities

• Drive cloud security by leading the design and implementation of AWS IAM, AD integration, Key/Secret management, security guardrails, AWS native and potential 3rd party security tools
• Develop applications in Python (previous experience developing complex apps in python is required)
• Drive cloud automation and cost optimization with development of Terraform templates and modules for varies AWS services and patterns aligning to the firm’s cloud standards and best practices, and partner with application engineering teams for adoption
• Partner with Cloud Engineering, Cloud Architecture, and Info-Sec teams to drive and implement cloud standards and guidelines
• Partner with Data Engineering teams to develop patterns and accelerators for onboarding applications to both Data Fabric and Cloud Foundation
• Partner with Cloud Operations team to provide operational transition and support escalation
• Provide strong influence and contribute to the firm’s Cloud Community of Practice for cloud and DevOps culture adoption

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering, Computer Science or Computer/Electrical Engineering preferred
• 10+ years of applications development experience with strong Python skills required
• Experience with AWS infrastructure services: IAM, EC2, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, KMS, VPC, Cognito, Config, SCP, Security Hub, CloudTrail
• 5+ years experience on cloud CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), DevOps and config management platforms: Terraform, Ansible/Puppet, Github, Jenkins/AWS Codebuild, Python
• Good knowledge on AWS SNS, Amazon MQ, K8s, service mesh, EKS RBAC, Hashicorp Vault
• Understanding of AWS networking services such as Transit Gateway, Route 53, firewall
• Demonstrated innovation, automation, engineering, time commitment and “can do” mindset
• Extremely attention to detail, pursuit for precision and accuracy
• End to end thinking with whole stack holistic view
• Eager to learn new technologies with strong curiosity, think out of the box
• Strong influencer to drive peers’ cultural and behavioral change
• Excellent communication skills

Our client offers a very competitive compensation package and a great work environment - apply today to learn more!