[MSO] Senior Python Developer (Infrastructure)

Software Mind

4d•Remote

About The Position

Software Mind is seeking a Senior Python Developer (Infrastructure) to join their team. This role involves building, migrating, and maintaining a private cloud solution for a government institution in Western Europe. The project is a multi-year engagement with a growing scope. The ideal candidate will become a go-to person for the environment, with a clear path towards a tech lead role, involving technical decision-making, solution direction, mentoring, and future planning discussions. The position requires designing, developing, testing, and deploying new and existing backend applications, collaborating with architects and specialists, migrating workloads, and contributing to future project phases, including scope estimation and pre-sales input.

Requirements

Minimum 5 years of commercial experience with Python
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and the software delivery lifecycle (GitLab)
Testing frameworks (Robot Framework, Pytest)
Experience with containers
Experience with Linux system administration
Infrastructure knowledge (firewalls, reverse proxies, forward proxies, networking — IPv4, IPv6)
A consulting mindset: you ask what the business goal is before choosing a solution, you can tell the client "no" and back it with arguments, and you can work with an underdefined scope and close it yourself
Ability to build client relationships — keeping trust and engagement in day-to-day work, not only clean communication on status calls

Nice To Haves

Experience with Kubernetes (Helm, Kustomize, GitOps)
Experience with HashiCorp Vault and Terraform
Experience with OpenStack
Experience building highly automated public cloud solutions
Experience working in a dedicated team or T&M model with a foreign client
Experience in managerial roles: Tech Leader, Team Leader, Coordinator etc.
Experience as Pre-sales Engineer or in a role with pre-sales exposure

Responsibilities

Designing, developing, testing and deploying new backend applications
Testing and improving existing backend infrastructure applications
Meetings with architects, functional designers and other specialists on system and application design
Migrating workloads into the new environment and supporting the platform once it runs in production
Contributing to conversations about the next phases of the engagement: scope estimation, technical input into pre-sales documents, and improvement proposals the client actually wants