AddressSenior Python Developer Glasgow (Onsite, Open to Relocate)
Team:
The UNIX Engineering group is responsible for designing and implementing Linux infrastructure for distributed systems. The group is involved in evaluation, certification, integration, and maintenance of various products, including hardware, Operating Systems (Red Hat Linux and Solaris), system services (DNS, DHCP, LDAP, etc.), file systems (including AFS, NFS, various cluster file systems), and a variety of in-house developed tools. The Configuration Management team within UNIX Engineering is looking for a person to assist with keeping in sync inventory systems with the configuration management system.
Finance Technology are looking for a developer to join a new team being stood up in Glasgow.
- Join a team of skilled and experienced technologists tasked with maintaining and enhancing our large scale, globally deployed VMware based platform.
- The 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
- 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
Skills Required:
- Good understanding of UNIX / Linux system fundamentals.
- Ability to design, develop robust, scalable, and maintainable backend systems in Python.
- Knowledgeable of Python frameworks.
- Should be able to optimize performance and scalability of these systems to provide high availability and fast response times.
- Good knowledge of at least one configuration management system.
- Experience in managing a large UNIX / Linux plant, including:
- Setting up and maintaining continuous integration and testing frameworks.
- Defining best practices and automating the administrative tasks.
- Writing/Maintaining Ansible playbooks.
- Effective troubleshooting skills across all components of the plant (HW, OS,network, storage).
- Ability to collaborate with others on development, including code reviews, providing specifications, implementing specifications from others, and writing documentation.
- Exposure to modern development tools and practices including git, Jenkins, Agile and
You Might Also Have (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
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