Python Developer

Advanced Resource Managers Limited; West of England; On-site; GBP 95,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Resource Managers Limited is seeking a Python Developer for a 12-month contract in Bristol. The role pays up to £84 per hour Inside IR35 and requires SC clearance.

You will design, build and maintain low-latency Python services and APIs, with Kubernetes deployments and containerised workloads. Responsibilities include profiling and tuning performance for near real-time systems, contributing to architecture decisions, and ensuring robust CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Proven Python development experience in professional settings.
• Strong knowledge of concurrency and the GIL implications.
• Hands-on Kubernetes and Docker/containerisation experience.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and Git workflows.
• Proven performance tuning: profiling CPU/memory/I/O.

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.

Skills

Python

Concurrency

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git workflows

Performance tuning

Event-driven systems

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Git

Job description

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