Senior Python Engineer - Cloud Automation & IaC Hybrid

Spectrum IT Recruitment; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical

Job summary

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.

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 development

Automation tooling

CI/CD

Testing & code quality

Cloud & hybrid infra

Tools

Terraform

Puppet

PowerShell

Jinja2

AWS

Job description

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.