Position: Senior Python Engineer
Company: Epam
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

This project assumes that the new EPAM team will work closely with a few existing customer development teams to help migrate infrastructure from an on-premise solution to AWS. The customer is looking for our help to increase the strength of its non-SQL DB division and its ability to deploy, maintain and troubleshoot services like Cassandra and Elasticsearch. So, some operational work is expected, but most of the time will be devoted to development in Python.

There are a lot of advantages of the position:
* Unique set up with one of the biggest Cassandra DB clusters in the world
* Extremely High level of processes automation, like clusters creation, metrics, scripts, backups, etc.
* Ability to participate in research, discussions, and decisions on software architecture, solution design and internal coding, architectural, process, and other standards
* Challenging creative tasks like cloud (AWS) migration and defining the supported DB(s) will replace the current open source setup and lead the migration
* Ability to get deep infrastructure and DB skills
* Multinational team with a funk-based culture, all stakeholders are friendly and polite

RESPONSIBILITIES
* Contribute toward the backend development of automation tools and help to increase the strength of the non-SQL DB division and deploy, maintain and troubleshoot services like Cassandra or Elastic Search
* Develop, test, and release elegant software systems that are robust and scalable production ready using the latest technologies
* E2E responsibility for the solution. From the analysis and solution design to the support and critical bug triage
* Work closely with product and engineering leadership to spec out, design, and implement strategic solutions for our stakeholders
* Analyze and estimate implementation efforts
Implement, review, support, and debug required content
* Setup and maintenance of large (~10-20 PB) DBs

REQUIREMENTS
* 3+ years of software engineering experience in Python
* Knowledge of NoSQL DBs
* Experience with distributed systems design and/or initial infrastructure deployment/DevOps experience
* Good communication skills, ability to drive architecture and requirements discussions
* Good spoken and written English level

NICE TO HAVE
* AWS experience
* Amazon OpenSearch
* Apache Elastic Search or(/and) Cassandra DB

WE OFFER
*Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
* Individual career path
* Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
* Sick leave and regular vacation
* English classes with certified English teachers
* Flexible work hours.