Senior Python Engineer - Cloud Automation Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 8-10%

Private medical

Job summary

Spectrum IT in London seeks a Senior Python Developer to join a hybrid team, delivering production-grade software and infrastructure automation. You will lead engineering across cloud and platform domains, building automation and tooling with Python, IaC, and CI/CD practices.

This role emphasizes infrastructure automation challenges, scalable cloud tooling, and collaboration with cloud, engineering, and platform teams to raise reliability and velocity.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial Python development experience.
• Experience building automation tools, frameworks or platforms.
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.

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

Terraform

IaC

Cloud Automation

Tools

Terraform

Puppet

PowerShell

Jinja2

CI/CD

AWS

Job description

Spectrum IT in London seeks a Senior Python Developer to join a hybrid team, delivering production-grade software and infrastructure automation. You will lead engineering across cloud and platform domains, building automation and tooling with Python, IaC, and CI/CD practices.

This role emphasizes infrastructure automation challenges, scalable cloud tooling, and collaboration with cloud, engineering, and platform teams to raise reliability and velocity.