Senior Python Developer

Tek Ninjas

Job Location:

Texas City, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

PYTHON DEVELOPERS AT TEK NINJAS TYPICALLY HAVE THE FOLLOWING JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Build maintain and improve internal cloud infrastructure automation platform using Python
Design and build testing frameworks to enable regular repeatable testing of customer APIs with eventual handoff to the customers Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team
Serve as a local EMEA advocate for automation supporting EMEA and APAC teams with issues related to currently available Operations task-focused automation especially where expertise in the customers broad automation architecture is required
Support customer operations and storage/backup teams by helping them navigate the existing automation framework and troubleshoot issues; this complements the SRE teams service with an application-development-focused approach
Design and implement clean maintainable object-oriented Python code for services and automation
Use Git Jira and Bitbucket for source control branching strategies and pull-request workflows
Work in an Agile team: sprint planning standups retrospectives backlog refinement
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines automated tests and deployment/runbook documentation
Troubleshoot profile and optimize application and automation performance
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team best practices

THE IDEAL PERSON FOR THIS ROLE WILL HAVE EXPERIENCE SUCH AS:

9 years professional experience developing in Python with strong object-oriented programming skills
Proven experience with Git workflows and Bitbucket (pull requests branching strategies)
API design
Microservice and cloud architecture principles
Experience working in Agile teams and familiarity with Agile ceremonies
Ability to use AI-assisted development tools (code completion LLM-assisted coding AI-driven test generation and AI-assisted code review) to accelerate delivery and improve quality
Ansible configuration management for provisioning and automation
Mongo query development
Strong debugging testing (unit/integration) and CI/CD mindset
Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally

Desired Experience

Infrastructure automation experience (IaC automation frameworks API pipeline automation)
Familiarity with storage technologies (SAN/NAS object storage distributed storage systems)
Experience writing or maintaining tools in Golang
Kafka experience (producers/consumers stream processing) is preferred
Container experience (Docker Kubernetes) preferred
Cloud platform experience (AWS GCP or Azure) and observability tooling
Comfortable participating in and conducting code reviews
Familiarity with the Richardson Maturity Model
Knowledge of OpenAPI specifications

PYTHON DEVELOPERS AT TEK NINJAS TYPICALLY HAVE THE FOLLOWING JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: Build maintain and improve internal cloud infrastructure automation platform using Python Design and build testing frameworks to enable regular repeatable testing of customer APIs with eventual handoff to the custome...

PYTHON DEVELOPERS AT TEK NINJAS TYPICALLY HAVE THE FOLLOWING JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Build maintain and improve internal cloud infrastructure automation platform using Python
Design and build testing frameworks to enable regular repeatable testing of customer APIs with eventual handoff to the customers Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team
Serve as a local EMEA advocate for automation supporting EMEA and APAC teams with issues related to currently available Operations task-focused automation especially where expertise in the customers broad automation architecture is required
Support customer operations and storage/backup teams by helping them navigate the existing automation framework and troubleshoot issues; this complements the SRE teams service with an application-development-focused approach
Design and implement clean maintainable object-oriented Python code for services and automation
Use Git Jira and Bitbucket for source control branching strategies and pull-request workflows
Work in an Agile team: sprint planning standups retrospectives backlog refinement
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines automated tests and deployment/runbook documentation
Troubleshoot profile and optimize application and automation performance
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team best practices

THE IDEAL PERSON FOR THIS ROLE WILL HAVE EXPERIENCE SUCH AS:

9 years professional experience developing in Python with strong object-oriented programming skills
Proven experience with Git workflows and Bitbucket (pull requests branching strategies)
API design
Microservice and cloud architecture principles
Experience working in Agile teams and familiarity with Agile ceremonies
Ability to use AI-assisted development tools (code completion LLM-assisted coding AI-driven test generation and AI-assisted code review) to accelerate delivery and improve quality
Ansible configuration management for provisioning and automation
Mongo query development
Strong debugging testing (unit/integration) and CI/CD mindset
Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally

Desired Experience

Infrastructure automation experience (IaC automation frameworks API pipeline automation)
Familiarity with storage technologies (SAN/NAS object storage distributed storage systems)
Experience writing or maintaining tools in Golang
Kafka experience (producers/consumers stream processing) is preferred
Container experience (Docker Kubernetes) preferred
Cloud platform experience (AWS GCP or Azure) and observability tooling
Comfortable participating in and conducting code reviews
Familiarity with the Richardson Maturity Model
Knowledge of OpenAPI specifications