Django Cloud Developer

$120,000 - $140,000/Yr

Ocean Motion Technologies - San Diego, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - San Diego, CA

About the position

Ocean Motion Technologies, Inc. is seeking a highly skilled Django Developer to support a cloud-based application focused on oceanographic and sustainable wave energy. The role involves managing Django applications in live cloud environments, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability of cloud-based systems, and contributing to architectural decisions while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage deployment of the Django application in beta testing with customers.
• Contribute to the design and development of the platform.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud systems for performance, reliability, and security.
• Maintain disaster recovery and continuity plans for services.
• Ensure cloud architecture meets security, scalability, and availability requirements.
• Implement and manage security controls and monitoring for the Big Blue Cloud.
• Ensure systems are compliant with industry standards and security regulations such as SOC 2 and GDPR.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and containerization solutions.
• Work with senior data scientists to deploy and scale their python-based AI systems into product.
• Collaborate with the team to support the analytics platform.
• Perform cloud cost optimization and recommend best practices for cloud resource management.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience managing a live Django application in production, preferably deployed on AWS, GCP or Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Excellent Python skills and decent Javascript.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, including VPCs, subnets, load balancers, and DNS.
• Hands-on experience with cloud monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.
• Bachelor's degree in technical field such as Computer Science or Engineering.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with big data processing tools such as Apache Hadoop, Spark, or Amazon EMR.
• Familiarity with visualization tools, especially Apache Charts and/or deck.gl.
• Previous experience with React.js library.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and automating cloud infrastructure workflows.
• Experience with containers and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience working with large-scale data systems, including data lakes, data warehouses, and distributed file systems.
• Exposure to geospatial data processing and visualization tools, especially with satellite/remote sensing data.
• Prior projects using Dask, Parsl, or other parallel computing libraries.

Benefits

• Profit sharing
• Paid holidays
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Paid sick time