Python Developer

Job title:

Senior Python Developer - with Container (EKS) & AWS experience

Client:
Fannie Mae

Location:

Reston VA - In person interviews so need Local in EAST coast only

Long Term

This is for a Senior Python Developer with Container (EKS) & AWS experience. Reston, VA only, not open for Plano or remote.

Role:
Python Developer

Location:

Reston, VA (3x week hybrid Tues, Thurs, Fri)

• Python - Strong Python programming & development skills are required for this role, this role will be leveraging Python to help develop templates and harness AWS services within Python;
  Extensive Python skills needed;
  Not so much automating but moreso leveraging Python from development standpoint as it relates to their
• AWS, strong hands-on experience with standard AWS services
• Containerization, strong understanding of how containers work, error messages, etc. strong containerization background
• EKS Team is migrating this application from EC2 to EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), so someone with hands-on experience/familiarity with EKS

• Other Dev Ops/CI Tools Gitlab, Terraform (more of a plus)
• Other Programming Java, J2EE or any other programming language

• This is a developer role, not a Dev Ops role
• Team is responsible for CI/CD tools, multiple tools they own/handle they own majority of end-to-end Dev Ops tools in Fannie Mae environment from tooling standpoint (not as an end users but they customize these tools end to end Git Lab, Terraform, Jenkins, etc..) but EKS is the primary focus of this team right now
• Develop enhancements & customization (generally in Python & other scripting languages) to support FM centric changes, governance, etc..
• We are part of Dev Ops engineering group but we're looking for developer to come in and a.) take over development aspect of changes they are making and b.) strong understanding of AWS (specifically to EKS), majority of our application is migrating from EC2 to EKS so this is a highly visible scope of work
• Dev Ops resumes are NOT what we are looking for, this is moreso a Developer role
• Primarily expertise in Python
• Working as part of a development team previously
• Developing to enhance application and to enhance functionality of platform all platform (templates/executions) all done in Python
• Heavy container environment, people should be able to understand base images, how it impacts the pipeline, etc.. providing optimized CI/CD pipelines for the enterprise through development
• Because of scale of the platform (2000 runners migrating to EKS clusters), need to understand how EKS clusters work, how it impacts CI/CD pipelines
• Not doing any build-deploy work, we refine the build-deploy functionality for our Dev Ops engineers .. develop the platform to enable CI/CD capabilities for the rest of the enterprise