Python Developer

Location:Bristol

Contract: 12 months
Paying:Up to-84p/h Inside IR35

Please note that due to the nature of the work, you will need a high level of UK security clearance (SC).

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain low-latency, high-throughput Python services and APIs
• Profile and tune application performance to meet near real-time requirements
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues across services, containers and Kubernetes workloads
• Contribute to architecture and design decisions, balancing performance, scalability and maintainability
• Containerise applications and manage deployments, configuration and resource tuning on Kubernetes
• Write unit and integration tests and contribute to CI/CD pipelines

Essential Skills and Experience

• Considerable experience in professional Python development
• Strong understanding of concurrency, memory management and the GIL?s implications for performance
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerisation (Docker), including deploying, scaling and debugging services in clusters
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and Git-based workflows
• Proven performance tuning expertise: profiling CPU, memory and I/O, optimising latency and throughput, and tuning concurrency (asyncio, multiprocessing, threading)
• Experience building near real-time systems, such as event-driven or streaming architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, WebSockets)

Desired Skills

• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure or GCP), including managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE)
• Performance optimisation with Cython, Rust or C extensions

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.