Lead Python Engineer

Top 3 Reasons To Join Us The Job Itviec’s client is seeking to join our Service Operations team, with a strong focus on Python development, automation, scripting, technical leadership, and DevOps practices. Key responsibilities: Lead the design, development, maintenance, and enhancement of Python-based applications, automation tools, scripts, and utilities. Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineers, including code reviews, solution design, troubleshooting, and best-practice adoption. Design and implement automation scripts to support testing, monitoring, deployment, and operational workflows. Build and maintain automation test scripts using Python and related frameworks. Support backend service development, API integration, and internal tooling using Python. Collaborate with development, QA, DevOps, and operations teams to define technical approaches and ensure effective delivery. Drive improvements in code quality, maintainability, reliability, scalability, and performance. Integrate automated scripts and tools into CI/CD pipelines, such as GitHub Actions or similar platforms. Support DevOps-related activities, including build, deployment, release automation, and environment configuration. Work with containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes. Collaborate with infrastructure and DevOps teams to support deployment and operations in cloud-native environments. Troubleshoot application, automation, and deployment issues across development, test, and production-like environments. Contribute to technical documentation, coding standards, automation guidelines, and continuous improvement initiatives. Support team planning, task breakdown, technical estimation, and delivery coordination in Agile/DevOps environments. Mentor and coach team members, helping them grow their technical capabilities and follow engineering best practices. Your Skills and Experience 7+ years of hands-on experience in Python development, with at least 1–2 years in a technical lead, senior engineer, or similar leadership role. Strong Python coding capability, including scripting, automation, backend development, and API integration. Experience leading technical discussions, reviewing code, guiding solution design, and supporting engineering teams. Experience in automation testing or test script development using Python. Good understanding of software engineering practices, clean code, debugging, maintainability, and performance optimization. Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions or similar tools. Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes. Familiarity with Linux environments and shell scripting. Experience working with REST APIs and service integration. Good understanding of cloud-native application environments. Experience working in Agile/DevOps teams. Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision. Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with development, QA, DevOps, operations, and infrastructure teams. Ability to mentor engineers, coordinate technical work, and support delivery across cross-functional teams. Why You'll Love Working Here Our client is an AI-centric global digital transformation company. We design advanced data and AI transformation solutions, modernize technology architectures and develop next-generation core systems for industry leaders in Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing and Robotics HR benefits Competitive salary Salary band per level are reviewed once per year 13th month salary pro rata depending on the employee’s length of service (within a calender year), paid with the December salary Monthly lunch allowance: 700,000 VND/employee Parking: covers the monthly parking fee for employee motorbikes Health care Private health insurance: including accident, outpatient, in-patient, maternity, and dental for all permanent employees who pass 2-month probation. Optical: expense claim for eyewear Annual health check-ups. Vacation Maximum 18-day vacation leave/year (with the ability to carry over 05 days till 31st March of the following year) Adding one more annual leave day for each two-year anniversary. Healthy lifestyle Sports and hobby clubs: company has an annual fund for fitness activities, which is allocated per month as team’s vote. Range of healthy snacks, tea, coffee, milk and beer on tap