Python Platform Engineer

Client Job Description

Contract till Feb 2025

Hybrid Onsite: Seattle, WA. 3 Days onsite 2 days remote. need local

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

IAAS focused python Engineer

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 of building CI/CD pipelines using ADO (AzureDevOps)
• 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