Python Developer

£70,000 – £90,000 Medical, Pension

Location: United Kingdom (London – London) Type: Permanent

Job Title: Python Developer

My Client, a leading multinational information technology services and consulting company are looking for a Python Developer to work within a public sector project.

The Python Developers will be part of the delivery team contributing to the maintenance and improvement of a key data platform for the end client. This is a full stack hands on role. The role requires skills commensurate with SFIA Level 4 as a minimum and ideally SFIA Level 5.

*This role requires eligibility for SC clearance, and therefore candidates will need to have been a UK resident for a minimum of 5 years. *

Programming/software development: Level 4 (Senior Associate)

• Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services.
• Contributes to the selection of the software development methods, tools and techniques.
• Applies agreed standards and tools to achieve well-engineered outcomes.
• Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work.

Programming/software development: Level 5 (Manager)

• Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development.
• Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques.
• Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security.
• Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.

Skills and Experience

As a Python Software Developer, you will be designing and developing software that lies between the front-end composer (GUI) and the back-end tools. You'll work collaboratively with your Agile team to deliver into the complex ecosystem, tackling varied technical challenges within a fast paced and stimulating environment.

As a Python Engineer, you will have:

• Experience writing production grade Python applications
• Awareness of a range of languages and paradigms.
• Experience with high scale applications such as APIs dealing with large request volumes, or data processing pipelines
• Experience with Docker/containerisation and cloud infrastructure
• Ownership of software from idea inception to production.
• Experience working with tooling for testing, build and deployment pipelines (setting it up is a plus).
• Working understanding of logging, monitoring and alerting tooling (setting it up is a plus).
• Good communication and written skills including experience producing technical documentation.
• Familiar with Agile ways of working

Essential Criteria:

• Python programming
• Linux / Ubuntu

Desirable Skills:

• Riak
• Docker
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Redis
• Jenkins
• Splunk
• Grafana/Prometheus
• Spark/PySpark
• AWS
• nginx/uwsgi
• Flask
• ReactJS, JS, CSS
• NoSQL
• TDD

If this is of interest, please apply below.

REF: AMC/SHA/PYT

Reference: AMC/SHA/PYT