Senior Python Developer

Location: Montreal

Role:
Senior Python Developer
Loction:
Hybrid:
Montreal (Hybrid ( Days WFO))
Duration:
Months

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
- Proficient in Python and Perl programming, with a focus on writing secure, testable, and robust code.
- Experience working on large-scale (,+ lines), collaboratively developed modular projects.
- Knowledge of SQL and database programming.
- Familiarity with modern development tools and practices, including Git, Jenkins, Agile methodologies, and continuous integration.
- Strong collaboration skills, including conducting code reviews, providing and implementing specifications, and writing documentation.
- Expertise in Linux, with familiarity in UNIX system calls.

- Experience with backend server development for state-based distributed systems that provide highly available APIs

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:
- Experience working in large, multi-national enterprises and collaborating within globally distributed teams.
- Background in designing, implementing, and supporting large-scale production IaaS platforms, especially using virtualization technologies such as Client.
- Proficient troubleshooting skills across hardware, operating systems, networks, and storage.
- Knowledge of additional programming languages, such as Erlang and Prolog

Your responsibilities:
- Become part of a team of skilled technologists dedicated to maintaining and enhancing a large-scale, globally deployed Client-based platform.
- Support Client’s global virtualization infrastructure, which is a large and distributed installation. The environment is centrally configured and managed using a suite of integrated open source and internally developed tools, including configuration components and numerous user space tools and libraries.
- Develop solutions that facilitate easy management, configuration, and support of a heterogeneous virtualization environment, ensuring its stability.
- Contribute to the development of the provisioning system and associated tooling that supports the platform, offering APIs and a command-based user interface for system administrators, developers, and application support personnel to manage virtual machine configurations.