Lead Conda Python Engineer

A client of Innova Solutions is immediately hiring for a Lead Conda Python Engineer
 
Position type: Fulltime, Contract
Duration: 24 months
Location: Irving, TX
 
As a Lead Engineer, you will be:
 
Day to Day Responsibilities

• Define reference architectures and standards for CI/CD using GitHub Actions and reusable workflows, embed compliance controls into the software delivery lifecycle, and design deployment patterns that promote reliability and auditability.
• Integrating existing application security and quality scanning technologies into the reference architecture, ensuring they are consistently applied as enforceable pipeline gates.
• Enabling predictable, enterprise scale delivery by aligning release governance with OpenShift (OCP) deployments through Harness, while partnering closely with CDXO on the Path to Production – Release Cargo Management (P2P RCM) framework.

• Prior experience with Open-Source Contributions to Conda-Forge Pixi Package Manager Developing GitHub Actions and CI/CD Automation.
• Steers platform engineering excellence - establish CI/CD patterns IaC templates and golden-path repos.
• Evangelizes DevSecOps GitOps EPLX and DORA metrics
• Experience building web applications and APIs using industry-standard frameworks Django FastAPI
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD automation and DevOps practices including GitHub Actions
• Experience with cloud-native platforms and container orchestration OpenShift/Kubernetes including deployment automation.
• Experience building or operating deployment automation to OpenShift using Harness CD

• Experience architecting web applications, distributed systems, and platform solutions using industry-standard Python frameworks (Django, FastAPI, Flask)
• Experience designing APIs, frameworks, automation pipelines, and distributed systems with a focus on scalability, resilience, and security
• Cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, AWS) or on-prem platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift, including platform architecture and capacity planning
• Experience architecting CI/CD pipelines, DevOps platforms, and release engineering systems, including GitHub Actions and reusable workflow design
• Hands-on experience integrating automated security scans into CI/CD pipelines—static code analysis (Sonar), SAST (Checkmarx), SCA (Black Duck), and secret scanning (GitHub Secret Scanning)—and defining enforceable policy gates for release readiness
• Experience designing and operating deployment automation to OpenShift (OCP) using Harness CD (or equivalent), including promotion, approvals, and rollback strategies
• Security architecture experience including DevSecOps, application security, threat modeling, and compliance automation
• Enterprise architecture leadership defining architecture standards, governance frameworks, and engineering processes across multiple teams Experience utilizing coding assistants (GitHub Copilot) and AI-powered development tools, with ability to define organizational adoption strategies

Kavita.singh@innovasolutions.com

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