About This Role

10 to 12 years of experience
Skills: Async I/O, typing, packaging, virtualenv/poetry, pytest/pytest-xdist, linting/formatting (flake8/black), Python, Ansible

Role Overview

We're looking for a hands-on Technical Manager with deep expertise in Python and Ansible to lead a high-performing engineering/automation team. You will own solution architecture, set engineering best practices, drive automation at scale (infrastructure and application), and deliver secure, reliable, and scalable systems. The ideal candidate combines technical leadership with a strong delivery mindset and excellent stakeholder management.

Required Qualifications

- 10+ years of total experience with 3–4 years in technical leadership/management.

- Strong Python fundamentals: async I/O, typing, packaging, virtualenv/Poetry, pytest/pytest-xdist, linting/formatting (flake8/black), and performance profiling.

- Hands-on experience with at least one production framework: FastAPI, Flask, or Django.

- Ansible expertise: playbooks, roles, inventories,



Jinja2 templating, agile inventories, Ansible Vault, Collections, and AWX/Ansible Tower.

- Understanding of idempotency, testing (Molecule), and performance tuning (strategies, forks, delegation).

- CI/CD experience: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins; artifact management and semantic versioning.

- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (Helm/Kustomize), and basic service mesh concepts.

- Cloud experience (one or more): AWS, Azure, or GCP; IAM, networking basics, VPC/VNet, load balancers, and storage.

- Observability tools: Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK, tracing, metrics, and alerting.

- Strong fundamentals in algorithms, distributed systems basics, REST/gRPC, and message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ).

- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and people leadership skills.

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📌 Python & Ansible -Technical Manager (India)
🏢 Lister Digital
📍 India