Python Developer

Role Overview

Python Developer working 100% remote on a 40-month contract. You’ll build and improve an infrastructure automation platform in an Agile environment, delivering reliable, well-tested automation services that scale.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve infrastructure automation using Python.
• Collaborate with product, SRE, and operations teams to deliver reliable automation.
• Design and implement clean, maintainable OOP Python code for services and automation.
• Use Git, Jira, and Bitbucket for branching and pull-request workflows.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies: sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, backlog refinement.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and deployment/runbook documentation.
• Troubleshoot, profile, and optimize performance of applications and automation.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years professional Python development with strong object-oriented programming.
• Proven experience with Git workflows and Bitbucket (PRs, branching strategies).
• API Design experience.
• Microservice and cloud architecture principles.
• Mongo query development.
• Agile team experience and familiarity with Agile ceremonies.
• Ability to use AI-assisted development tools (code completion, LLM-assisted coding, AI-driven test generation, AI-assisted code review).
• Ansible and configuration management for provisioning/automation.
• Strong debugging, unit/integration testing, and CI/CD mindset.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Nice to Have

• Infrastructure automation / IaC and pipeline automation experience.
• Storage familiarity (SAN/NAS, object storage, distributed storage).
• Experience writing/maintaining tools in Golang.
• Kafka experience (producers/consumers, stream processing).
• Docker and Kubernetes experience.
• Cloud platform experience (AWS/GCP/Azure) and observability tooling.
• Code review experience.
• Familiarity with Richardson Maturity Model.
• Knowledge of OpenAPI spec.
• Migration of legacy Ansible-based macroservice fulfillment services to RMM Level 2 OpenAPI microservices using an AI-assisted workflow.
• Improve CI/CD reliability and increase automated test coverage.