Senior Python Developer

Spectrum IT Recruitment; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

8% bonus

10% pension

Private healthcare

Job summary

Spectrum IT Recruitment is seeking a Senior Python Engineer to join our global AI and SaaS client in a hybrid role near Hedge End, Southampton. You will build automation tooling in Python, and implement Terraform-based IaC across complex environments using AWS cloud services.

You will collaborate with platform and engineering teams to drive reliability, scalability and faster delivery of production-quality code, while taking advantage of a supportive team and ongoing learning opportunities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years commercial experience with Python.
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• CI/CD pipelines experience; AWS knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Building automation frameworks and tooling using Python.
• Developing Infrastructure as Code solutions with Terraform.
• Creating reusable templates and code generation platforms using Jinja/Jinja2.
• Automating Windows environments through PowerShell.
• Managing and improving configuration management with Puppet.
• Building CI/CD integrations for infrastructure delivery.
• Collaborating with cloud, platform and engineering teams to improve automation.

Skills

Python

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

AWS / Cloud

Automation

Tools

Terraform

Jinja/Jinja2

PowerShell

Puppet

Job description

Senior Python Engineer | Infrastructure Automation |Terraform | IaC

Hedge End, Southampton, Hampshire

Hybrid, 2 days a week onsite

£75k plus 8% bonus, 10% pension, private healthcare

We're recruiting for a Senior Python Engineer to join a global AI & SaaS specialist.

This is an opportunity to work on complex platform engineering challenges where your work will revolutionise the speed and accuracy of production quality code.

You'll be joining a long‑term project where your work will genuinely make a difference from day one. You'll have the freedom to improve systems, solve interesting technical problems, and work with modern AWS and automation technologies, all within a supportive team that offers plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress your career.

What You'll Be Doing | Summary of Skills

• Building automation frameworks and tooling using Python
• Developing Infrastructure as Code solutions with Terraform
• Creating reusable templates and code generation platforms using Jinja/Jinja2
• Automating Windows environments through PowerShell
• Managing and improving configuration management with Puppet
• Building CI/CD integration's 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

Essential

• 5+ years commercial experience with Python
• Experience with Terraform and IaC
• Knowledge of buisling CI/CD pipelines. If you love to tackle complex challenges, work in a forward thinking team and build solutions leveraging leading edge AI