Senior Python Engineer — Cloud Automation & IaC (Hybrid)

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

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,