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Position: Senior Python Developer (Backend) with Linux
Location: Montreal, Canada (Hybrid)
Duration: Long Term
Rate: $ Open/Hour
Job Description:
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
Must Have 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 APIs.
Nice to Have Skills:
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
Team Profile:
The Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Engineering group in the Core Infrastructure division at Client is responsible for designing and implementing the firm s huge scale, global Linux and Virtualization infrastructure. The group is involved in evaluation, certification, integration, and maintenance of numerous products, including hardware, hypervisor platform, the Linux OS platform, system configuration, critical infrastructure services (DNS, DHCP, NTP, etc.), high availability products and virtualization management technologies.
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