Senior Python Developer - Cloud Automation

Spectrum IT Recruitment; City Of London; Híbrido; GBP 90.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Private medical

Descripción de la vacante

Spectrum IT Recruitment is seeking a Senior Python Developer to lead software engineering on a major government technology project. You will build secure, scalable automation and platform tooling using Python and modern IaC approaches.

You'll develop automation frameworks with Terraform, Jinja2 templates, and CI/CD integrations, while collaborating with cloud, platform and engineering teams to raise reliability and throughput. Hybrid London-based role with two onsite days.

Formación

• 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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

Conocimientos

Python development

Automation tooling

CI/CD

Testing & code quality

Cloud & hybrid infra

Herramientas

Terraform

Puppet

PowerShell

Jinja2

AWS

Descripción del empleo

Senior Python Developer | Tech Lead | Principal Engineer

Python | Terraform | IaC | Cloud Automation

London | Hybrid (2 days onsite. (London or Southampton)

£100k + 8-10% bonus, private medicalAre you a Senior or Tech Lead Software Engineer who loves solving infrastructure challenges through code?

We're recruiting for an experienced Python Software Engineer to join a significant government technology project, helping to build secure enterprise customer platforms used by critical organisations. This is an opportunity to work on complex cloud infrastructure, automation, and platform engineering challenges where your work will have a direct impact on the success of a high-profile programme.

Unlike many infrastructure roles, this is a genuinely software engineering-focused position. You'll spend your time building automation frameworks, developing internal tooling, creating Infrastructure as Code solutions, and eliminating manual processes through clean, scalable, production-quality code.

What You'll Be Doing

• 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

What We're Looking For

• 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