Python Developer

Pay Range: CAD 60-70/hr

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 (10,000+ 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 VMware.
• 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 VMware-based platform.
• Support Morgan Stanley’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.