AWS Devops and Python Engineer

Title: AWS Devops and Python Engineer - any WMC office

Location: Any of the office in Needham, MA or Boston, MA or New York City or Chicago, IL or San Francisco, CA or Radnor, PA (Hybrid)

Job Description:

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This team is responsible for designing and building tools, platforms, and workflows that enable our internal software engineering teams to build and deploy applications efficiently and reliably.
In this role, you will help create the foundational platforms that allow development teams across the organization to focus on delivering business value rather than managing infrastructure or tooling. Your work will directly support enterprise?wide initiatives by improving developer productivity, standardizing best practices, enhancing reliability, and accelerating delivery.
This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, building reusable platforms, and collaborating closely with other engineers to deliver high?impact internal solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain core platform services and APIs
• Collaborate with cross? functional teams to gather requirements and deliver scalable, reliable solutions
• Build and maintain infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps tools
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical planning
• Contribute across all phases of the software development lifecycle, including architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and ongoing support
• Ensure adherence to established engineering standards such as continuous integration, code reviews, and technical documentation
• Monitor and optimize system performance, reliability, and security using metrics, logs, and distributed tracing to drive insight and remediation

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering
• Hands?on experience designing, deploying, and operating cloud?native applications on AWS , including services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, and CloudFormation
• Strong understanding of scalable, secure, and highly available system architecture
• Experience building and operating DevOps platforms , including:
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Jenkins)
  • Container orchestration using ECS or EKS

• Experience implementing and supporting monitoring, logging, and performance optimization solutions (e.g., OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, X?Ray)
• Strong proficiency in Python , with experience using libraries such as:
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • Requests
  • BeautifulSoup
  • FastAPI
  • SQLAlchemy

• Experience packaging, testing, and deploying Python applications using tools such as pytest, setuptools, Docker
• Comfortable with test?driven development , continuous integration, and agile development methodologies
• Experience using development tools such as Git, Artifactory, and Jenkins
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• High attention to detail, strong self?discipline, and a passion for innovation
• Experience working with offshore development teams is a plus

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics , or a related field (or equivalent practical experience preferred)