Lead Python Engineer: Cloud Automation & IaC

Spectrum IT Recruitment; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical

Hybrid work model (London on-site 2 d/

Bonus 8-10%

Job summary

Spectrum IT Recruitment is recruiting a Senior Python Software Engineer to join a government technology programme in London. The role focuses on building secure, automated cloud infrastructure and internal tooling, emphasizing production-grade code and scalable IaC solutions.

You’ll develop automation frameworks, infrastructure templates, and code generation platforms, while driving reliability and automation improvements across complex environments in a hybrid London/Southampton setup.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial Python development experience.
• Experience building automation tools, frameworks or platforms.
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Experience with AWS cloud services.
• Puppet configuration management experience.
• CI/CD and DevOps automation experience.

Responsibilities

• Building automation frameworks and tooling using Python.
• Developing Infrastructure as Code solutions with Terraform.
• Creating reusable templates and code generation platforms using Jinja2.
• Automating Windows environments through PowerShell.
• Managing and improving configuration management with Puppet.
• Building CI/CD integrations for infrastructure delivery.
• Working closely with cloud, platform and engineering teams to improve automation and operational efficiency.
• Driving infrastructure standardisation, reliability and scalability across complex environments.

Skills

Python development

Automation tooling

Terraform

AWS

Puppet

CI/CD

DevOps practices

Tools

Terraform

Puppet

Job description

Spectrum IT Recruitment is recruiting a Senior Python Software Engineer to join a government technology programme in London. The role focuses on building secure, automated cloud infrastructure and internal tooling, emphasizing production-grade code and scalable IaC solutions.

You’ll develop automation frameworks, infrastructure templates, and code generation platforms, while driving reliability and automation improvements across complex environments in a hybrid London/Southampton setup.