Job Description:

We are looking for a skilled Python Backend Developer to join our development team. You will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable and efficient backend systems, APIs, and services. You should have strong experience with Python frameworks and a deep understanding of server-side logic, performance optimization, and security.

Key responsibilities:

• Join a team of skilled and experienced technologists tasked with maintaining and enhancing our large scale, globally deployed VMware-based platform.

• Client’s global virtualization plant is a large, globally distributed installation. It is centrally configured and managed by a suite of tightly integrated open-source and internally developed tools. This includes a set of configuration components and many user space tools and libraries. We require an engineer who can develop solutions to ensure that this heterogeneous plant is easy to manage, configure, and support, ensuring a stable environment.

• The successful candidate will work on the development of our provisioning system and other tooling to support the platform. This provides APIs and a command-based user interface that allows system administrators, developers, and application support personnel to build and manage the configuration of Virtual Machines.I-AS2

Professional Skills:

• Strong Python and Perl programming skills, writing secure, testable, robust code.

• Experience of large (10k+ lines) collaboratively developed modular projects.

• Knowledge of SQL and database programming.

• Exposure to modern development tools and practices including git, jenkins, agile and continuous integration.

• Ability to collaborate with others on development, including code reviews, providing specifications, implementing specifications from others, and writing documentation.

• Expert knowledge of Linux, including familiarity with UNIX system calls

• Experienced with backend server development for state based distributed systems which provide highly available API’s.

• Experience working in a large, multi-national enterprise in any industry vertical, showing experience of communicating and collaborating in globally distributed teams.

• Experience of designing, implementing and supporting large scale production IaaS platforms, working with virtualization technologies preferably Vmware.

• Effective troubleshooting skills across hardware, O/S, network, and storage.

• Knowledge of other programming languages, such as Erlang, Prolog