Senior Python, Cloud Infrastructure & AI Engineer

Role overview

Core responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Python, Django, and Django REST Framework applications.
• Build APIs, background workers, integrations, and AWS Lambda functions.
• Support legacy Python applications and Python 3.x environments.
• Manage AWS services, Linux environments, application servers, and deployments.
• Maintain automation with SaltStack, Packer, Docker, and Serverless Framework.
• Build and improve Jenkins-based CI/CD and release pipelines.
• Improve reliability through monitoring, canary deployments, rollback, retry, and recovery practices.
• Maintain database, messaging, authentication, security, and external-service integrations.
• Manage dependencies, runtime environments, package builds, and reproducible deployments.
• Use and review AI-assisted engineering work with human review and security checks.

Required qualifications

• At least 7 years of software engineering experience is required.
• Strong expertise in Python, Django, and Django REST Framework is required.
• Hands-on AWS experience, especially Lambda and event-driven services, is required.
• Linux environment management experience is required.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker, deployment automation, and production support is required.
• Experience with SaltStack or a similar configuration-management tool is required.
• Knowledge of databases, REST APIs, queues, authentication, TLS, and application security is required.
• Practical experience with AI coding assistants, LLMs, or AI-enabled engineering workflows is required.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, communication, and ownership skills are required.

Additional valued experience

• Python 2-to-3 upgrades and dependency management are valued.
• Ubuntu or Amazon Linux, Packer, AMIs, Gunicorn, Nginx, Apache, and systemd experience is valued.
• Experience with additional AWS services, messaging, notification, GIS, XML, cryptography, or third-party API integrations is valued.
• Secure development, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, observability, and high-availability systems experience is valued.

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