Location : Montreal
Experience : 6-8 years
Job Description : A Python Developer specializing in Virtualization Infrastructure Tooling.
This role requires in-office presence three times per week, with onboarding conducted onsite from day one.
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.
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 APIsDesirable 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