Sift Consultancy – Backend Data Platform Engineer – Python/Kubernetes

Job Description:Sift Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. is an IT services and business solutions company, playing an integral role in our clients’ growth strategy. We provide creative solutions to clients around the world, that can simplify, strengthen and transform their businesses. We are hiring partners for (Pantheon Inc.) https://pantheon.io and currently they are looking for a Data Platform Engineer to join their team in Bangalore.What will you do:-

Create an automated, state of the art, data platform for various job types and sizes-

Help stabilize a standard deployment pattern that will enable us to grow our data platform service capabilities for the company-

Close collaboration with the wider engineering team to both deliver platform improvements and provide subject-matter-expertise for other technology initiatives-

Continuous improvements to our standard of engineering excellence by implementing best practices for coding, testing, deploying and communicationAbout You:-

Knowledge of large-scale platforms and the design of scalable, robust services in the real world, especially for data transfers and manipulations (both streaming and batch).-

Experience working with distributed systems.-

Experience with a variety of data store types, tech stacks, and the tradeoffs between them.-

Experience with scripting the creation of dynamic platform infrastructures hosted by one or more cloud providers such as Google or AWS.-

Desire to work on a new project and participate in the design and documentation activities related to the creation of new infrastructure.Bonus Points for:-

Strong experience in Python-

Automating infrastructure with kubernetes-

Scheduling ETLs using Airflow-

Exposure to frameworks such as Django-

Experience working on new – greenfield-

projects-

Experience supporting data scientists and analysts through PaaSAbout Pantheon:Pantheon is the only WebOps platform built from the ground up for agility. We help our customers win, where digital experience starts and matters most – their websites. We empower teams of developers, marketers, and IT professionals to focus on delivering business results while Pantheon handles uptime, performance, scalability and security. We are the fastest growing Drupal and WordPress platform in the world, powering over 200,000 sites and serving billions of pages every month. Happy customers include some of the most recognized names in high tech, higher education and NGO, such as Patch, Apigee, UC Berkeley, Arizona State University, and the United Nations.With 35% of the web running open source, we are growing aggressively into a huge market opportunity and looking to expand our engineering team. That’s where you come in.We’ve got depth and breadth across the technologies we use to run the Pantheon platform at scale. You- ll have many opportunities to pick up and apply new skills and gain professional experience with some of our existing use of Cassandra, MySQL, Redis, React, Node.js, Python, Golang, C, Chef, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, CircleCI, React and more. (ref:hirist.com)