Python Application Engineer

Job Title: Python Application Engineer
Contract Period: 12+ Months
Work location: Austin, TX

Description
SARC is seeking an experienced and highly motivated software developer to join our IT organization. The ideal candidate will have a passion for automation and infrastructure development and will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing software solutions and automation workflows for our IT infrastructure and operations.
As a member of the IT organization, you will work closely with other cross-functional teams to automate workflows, improve server OS deployments and provisioning processes using automation, and develop containerized applications using the tools such as OpenShift, Kubernetes, Podman, and Docker. You will leverage web frameworks like Flask or Django to provide full-featured RESTful APIs that can be used by end-users and other applications. In this role, you will also be responsible for hands-on application debugging, troubleshooting, and problem remediation with automation workflows. You will contribute to the development of configuration management policies to further automate and streamline operations and contribute to open source tool builds used on Linux servers.
The ideal candidate will be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and collaborating with peers and internal customer teams to understand requirements and develop new tools/applications/APIs. You will be expected to continuously evaluate and improve best practices for IT process automation.
If you are passionate about automation and infrastructure development and want to work on cutting-edge technology products, SARC is the place for you. Apply today and join our team of talented engineers and developers.

Responsibilities:
Design, develop and implement software solutions and automation workflows for IT infrastructure and operations
Based upon requirements, independently design and develop best-practice code that enable integration and administration of diverse applications with a focus on process automation
Deploy production-ready code using industry-standard testing and deployment processes, such as unit/acceptance tests, testing environments and CI/CD processes
Leverage web frameworks (such as Flask or Django) to provide full-featured RESTful APIs that can be used by end-users and other applications
Document and support automation services and continue to build on that automation framework; make it responsive, make it self-healing and incorporate AI and make it purely data driven
Improving and refining server OS deployments and provisioning processes using automation
Design, implement and support of IT applications, such as CMDB, ELK stack, GraphQL and other tools such as Grafana, InfluxDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL
Contribute to configuration management policy development to further automate and streamline operations
Contribute to open source tool builds used on Linux servers
Hands-on application debugging, troubleshooting, and problem remediation with automation workflows
Build tools and implement automated flow to integrate seamlessly into our job scheduling system, including regression and continuous integration systems
Work with other cross-functional teams to automate workflows, implement dashboards and monitoring systems and support engineering groups
Develop containerized applications using tools such as OpenShift/Kubernetes/Podman/Docker and champion adoption of microservices and containerization best practices for automating IT processes
Closely collaborate with IT and internal customer teams to understand requirements and develop new tools/applications
Continuously evaluate and improve best practices for IT process automation
Responsible for contributing and fully focused on executing on project plans defined as by SARC IT team

Qualifications:
7+ years of experience in IT automation engineering [must have]
Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Ruby, or Java [must have preferably python and shell scripting]
Significant experience with development best practices: source control, pull requests, code reviews [must have]
Experience with producing production-ready code using testing and deployment best-practices [must have]
Experience working with and developing APIs (Flask, Django, Sanic, or similar) [must have]
Experience with CI/CD tools and software testing frameworks [must have]
Knowledge of building, configuring, monitoring, and supporting open source tools and application stacks on Linux [must have]
Experience with most Linux operating system commands and utilities [must have]
Experience working with Docker or Podman, Kubernates, and/or Openshift [must have]
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field [good to have]
Significant experience designing and developing enterprise-scale software solutions working wtith customers and stakeholder requirements [good to have]
Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or CFEngine [good to have]
Commitment to continually improving services and automated processes to meet the needs of customers and colleagues [good to have]
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills [good to have]
Excellent communication and collaboration skills. [good to have]
Self-starter with the ability to work independently and as part of a team [good to have]
Experience working with data analytics tools (CMDB, ELK stack, GraphQL, Grafana) and databases (InfluxDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL) [good to have]

Nice To Have Skills:
Understanding of infrastructure components storage, compute network, licenses, version control system and basic system administration skills
Knowledge of server provisioning with tools such as Redhat Satellite Server, Foreman, PXE, Kickstart
Knowledge of building, configuring, and administering Linux computer systems in an environment with hundreds or thousands of clients
Knowledge of Jira, Jira Project Management, Confluence, BitBucket
Familiarity with Virtualization environments and tools such as VMWare, vCenter, vCenter Orchestrator
ELK stack (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kabana), Splunk
Knowledge of internet protocols and services including TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, SSH, LDAP & AD
Cloud experience (AWS/Google Cloud/Azure)
Experience with containers / Kubernetes / OpenShift
Knowledge of EDA work flows