Cloud Applications – Python Developer – VP (Remote)

We are looking for hands on architects/developers who are passionate about:

Helping architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage AWS services
Architecting and developing applications to be cloud optimized
Working as a technical leader alongside business, development, and infrastructure teams
Providing deep software development knowledge with respect to cloud architecture, design patterns, and programming
Advising and implementing AWS best practices
Working as both an infrastructure and application development specialist
Agile software development and DevOps
Implementing DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployment

Basic Qualifications

BS level technical degree or equivalent experience; Computer Science or Engineering background preferred; Master’s Degree desired
10+ years of an application programming and/or hands-on technical application architecture experience
Extensive experience architecting, designing, and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment
Experience configuring, deploying, monitoring, and supporting Python applications
Understanding of web technologies (e.g. load balancers, http, ssl)
Understanding and Experience leveraging Git as source code control and part of a deployment pipeline
Hands on programing skills in Python
Experience building sophisticated and highly automated infrastructure. Prior success in automating a real-world production environment
Experience with CI/CD pipelines used for release management across all environments
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations

Preferred Qualifications

Adept operating in a mixed Linux and Windows environment
Hands on programing skills in any of the following: Java, C#, or Go
Agile software development expertise
Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins & Bamboo)
Experience with deployment methodologies and DevOps principles such as immutability
Hands on familiarity with CloudFormation or Terraform
Understanding of service discovery software (Zookeeper, Consul) and distributed systems
Experience with automated testing tools (i.e. Selenium, JMeter)
Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability