Lead Python Engineer — Infra Automation & Cloud (Hybrid London)

Spectrum IT; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectrum IT is seeking a Senior Python Software Engineer with leadership experience to work on a major government technology project from London. You will build automation frameworks, IaC solutions, and internal tooling to enable secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and automated delivery pipelines.

The role emphasizes production-quality code, collaboration with cloud, platform and engineering teams, and delivering reliable infrastructure across hybrid environments.

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.
• Passion for engineering best practices, testing and code quality.
• Experience working in cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments.

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

Automation frameworks

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

Jinja2

PowerShell

Puppet

AWS

Job description

Spectrum IT is seeking a Senior Python Software Engineer with leadership experience to work on a major government technology project from London. You will build automation frameworks, IaC solutions, and internal tooling to enable secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and automated delivery pipelines.

The role emphasizes production-quality code, collaboration with cloud, platform and engineering teams, and delivering reliable infrastructure across hybrid environments.