AWS Cloud & Python Engineer — Data Pipeline Specialist

Lightfoot; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Lightfoot is seeking a skilled AWS Cloud & Python Engineer to bridge application development and cloud infrastructure from Exeter. You will own end-to-end data transformation apps, writing clean Python and designing AWS infra with Terraform for scalable, high-performance processing.

You will work in a hybrid setup from our Exeter Head Office, with occasional in-office attendance to support collaboration and team alignment. Experience with Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS and CI/CD pipelines is essential.

Qualifications

• Dual expertise: Python development with hands-on AWS deployment.
• Experience deploying cloud environments via Terraform and managing containerised workloads.
• Familiarity with data transformation strategies and real-time data processing.
• Proficient with CI/CD pipelines, Git, automated testing and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Python applications for real-time telematics and large-scale data transformation.
• Provision, manage, and scale AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
• Architect cost-efficient, low-latency, high-throughput solutions with reliability in mind.
• Deploy serverless and containerised workloads using Lambda, ECS, EC2, SQS, S3, and RDS.
• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• Monitor performance and reliability using CloudWatch and X-Ray.

Skills

Python

AWS

Terraform

Docker

ETL

CI/CD

Git

Data processing

Tools

Terraform

Docker

AWS

Job description

Lightfoot is seeking a skilled AWS Cloud & Python Engineer to bridge application development and cloud infrastructure from Exeter. You will own end-to-end data transformation apps, writing clean Python and designing AWS infra with Terraform for scalable, high-performance processing.

You will work in a hybrid setup from our Exeter Head Office, with occasional in-office attendance to support collaboration and team alignment. Experience with Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS and CI/CD pipelines is essential.