Senior Python Developer - Cloud Automation

Spectrum IT; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 8-10%

Private medical

Job summary

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is recruiting a Senior Python Developer / Tech Lead for a government technology project in Southampton. The role focuses on building automation, IaC with Terraform, and cloud platform engineering in a hybrid setup (2 days onsite). The salary is £100k with a 8–10% bonus and private medical.

You will influence automation, tooling, and secure enterprise platforms. The position emphasizes software engineering with opportunities to collaborate across cloud,

Qualifications

• Solid commercial Python development experience.

Responsibilities

• Build automation frameworks and tooling using Python.

Skills

Python

Automation tooling

CI/CD

DevOps practices

Cloud & hybrid infra

AWS

Tools

Terraform

Puppet

PowerShell

Jinja2

Job description

Senior Python Developer | Tech Lead | Principal Engineer

• Python | Terraform | IaC | Cloud Automation
• Southampton | Hybrid (2 days onsite)
• £100k + 8-10% bonus, private medical

Are 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

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.