Python Job: Automation Engineer

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Company

FFW
United Kingdom

Location

Remote Position
(From Everywhere/No Office Location)

Job type

Full-Time

Python Job Details

Overview:
#Python Automation Engineer needed!

FFW is hiring a Python Automation Engineer to work with its partner, a major US company from the pharma industry.
The ideal candidate has several years of experience in a similar role, is motivated, self-started, with a positive attitude.

This is a contract, but permanent position, 100% remote (from Europe), full-time.

In this role, our future colleague will be responsible for designing, building, and operating Python based tooling hosted on AWS, which ties together various cloud services. This tooling enables other development teams to work better and more efficiently. For example, with the AWS Chalice framework, you might be building event message queues and automation that create or remove user accounts in some cloud service when certain events are triggered so that our support teams save manual time and effort. Or you might be assisting other teams to build automation that trigger security tests for their applications when certain events are triggered, so it’s easier for them to build secure applications.
Responsibilities:
What awaits you:

  • A normal work week consists of a mix of building new features, fixing bugs, showcasing your work, and planning. We have short weekly planning meetings and provide lots of time to focus without meetings. On a quarterly basis, you’ll also have personal 1-1 meetings with your Line Manager to support your own growth in the team;
  • As the team is diverse and distributed, asynchronous collaboration within the team is key. You’ll be supported by a Service Manager with planning and prioritization;
  • The team take pride in the quality of our code, our delivery practices, the breadth of our automated test coverage and the documentation we write;
  • You’re successful with your responsibilities if you engage and deliver together with the team in a way that is stable and sustainable. We value predictability and avoid unreasonable deadlines that cause us to rush or cut corners.
Qualifications:
What you bring:

We are looking for engineers with experience in some of the following areas:
  • Python 3.8+;
  • AWS – especially Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, SQS, EventBridge;
  • AWS Chalice framework • Python testing tools – pytest, flake8;
  • Integrating with third party APIs – i.e. GitHub, Jira, Cloudflare, GraphQL;
  • Docker;
  • Git best practices – rebase, squash, bisect;
  • Kanban delivery – we enjoy working with lean methods;
  • Excellent asynchronous collaboration and communication.
You can expect from our recruitment process to look like this:

  • "Get to know you" chat with a member of our Talent Team;
  • A short recorded video interview, where you will briefly tell us more about yourself;
  • A technical video interview with one of our colleagues from the development team;
  • And finally an offer!

FFW is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applications will be considered without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability, length of unemployment or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
Apply today, we look forward to meeting you!